John Updike News, Pictures & Buzz

It's the year of the iris, and it's time to divide - By Lynette L. Walther  Republican Journal

Bobby Bobbitt Obituary - Montvale, VA | Roanoke Times  Legacy.com

Katie Caples Cross Country  Clay Today Online

Warned: COVID-19 exposed the failure to learn lessons from prior pandemics  Houston Chronicle

Data, mechanics, geometry and the demystifying of golf  The Times

Edith Raymond Locke, Mademoiselle Editor in the 1970s, Dies at 99  The New York Times

QB Index, Week 3: Russell Wilson, Aaron Rodgers vying for No. 1; Josh Allen hits top five  NFL.com

The Stanley Crouch I Knew | by Adam Shatz  The New York Review of Books

Friends creator David Crane fights for Rachel and Joey  The Australian

Historic hotel in Southwest Harbor sold to Kennebunkport hotelier  Mainebiz

Trump's Rural Base in Berks County Pennsylvania  City Journal

Inside the FBI's File on Soviet Poet-Dissident Yevgeny Yevtushenko  The New Republic

U.S. Open Sunday is a holy day. But this year that comes with different...  Golf.com

Stanley Crouch, Towering Jazz Critic, Dead At 74  Capital Public Radio News

Darleen O. Wyttenbach - Monroe Times  Monroe Times

Jean Ann Updike  Channel3000.com - WISC-TV3

Solution to Evan Birnholz’s Sept. 6 Post Magazine crossword, “All-Around Player”  The Washington Post

A daily almanac: What happened this day in history  Chicago Tribune

Community Voices: The one technology I do not miss during the pandemic  St Pete Catalyst

Carroll Hardy, Athlete With a Unique Distinction, Dies at 87  The New York Times

bengreenman: Mark Herring looks like a cross between John Updike, Ted Koppel, and Le**!ard Cohen. https://t.co/v5734mll0p

daniel_krieger: “The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be in some sense kidding.” —John Updike

veselkanyc: “The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.” ~John… https://t.co/8qKtPEvFW4

NatashaReid95: RT @lilyinthewind10: What art offers is space, a certain breathing room for the spirit. John Updike. Dame Laura Knight. https://t.co/NnqTn…

opacarophileCPA: RT @yemacakex: We are most alive when we’re in love. - John Updike DUET FOR LOVE JEYDICE

in your guys opinion which of johns updikes pomes is the best? can you the give me a little literature analysis about it please

what events during his time influenced him to write. For example some aurthors wroke during the segregation.

Are there any changes in the structure action or feeling of the poem? Pearl Avenue runs past the high-school lot, Bends with the trolley tracks, and stops, cut off Before it has a chance to go two blocks, At Colonel McComsky Plaza. Berth’s Garage Is on the corner facing west, and there, Most days, you'll find Flick Webb, who helps Berth out. Flick stands tall among the idiot pumps— Five on a side, the old bubble-head style, Their rubber elbows hanging loose and low. One’s nostrils are two S’s, and his eyes An E and O. And one is squat, without A head at all—more of a football type. Once Flick played for the high-school team, the Wizards. He was good: in fact, the best. In ’46 He bucketed three hundred ninety points, A county record still. The ball loved Flick. I saw him rack up thirty-eight or forty In one home game. His hands were like wild birds. He never learned a trade, he just sells gas, Checks oil, and changes flats. Once in a while, As a gag, he dribbles an inner tube, But most of us remember anyway. His hands are fine and nervous on the lug wrench. It makes no difference to the lug wrench, though. Off work, he hangs around Mae’s Luncheonette. Grease-gray and kind of coiled, he plays pinball, Smokes those thin cigars, nurses lemon phosphates. Flick seldom says a word to Mae, just nods Beyond her face towards bright applauding tiers Of Necco wafers Nibs and juju beads.

What is the writer's characterisitc voic or tone? What kind of person do you imagine this writer to be? Can you please answer this, this would be really helpful.

for English i have to explain how john updike reflectid the realism period?. do you guys have any idea. REALISM 1855-1900 (Period of Civil War and Postwar period) Novels and short stories Objective narrator Does not tell reader how to interpret story Dialogue includes voices from around the country Social realism: aims to change a specific social problem Aesthetic realism: art that insists on detailing the world as one sees it Civil War brings demand for a "truer" type of literature that does not idealize people or places Writings of Twain, Bierce, Crane The Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (some say 1st modern novel) Regional works like: The Awakening. Ethan Frome, and My Antonia (some say modern)