by vjbooks | Feb 21, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(Publisher’s Weekly, Feb. 9, Michael Coffey) Updike didn’t just believe in the power of prose; he believed in print Much has been written in the two weeks since John Updike’s death on January 27—about the wonderful precision of his prose and, as...
by vjbooks | Feb 5, 2009 | We're Talking Books!
(mirror.co.uk news, Jan. 28, John Kelly) Acclaimed American author John Updike died of lung cancer yesterday (Jan 27) at the age of 76. The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer was famous for chronicling life in small towns and the sexual angst of middle-class Americans. His...
