John Updike, let us hope ... He drills an ancient two-hand set shot, rebounds Tiger's next miss and drives to the basket. Up he goes, way up toward the torn clouds. His torso is ripped by a ...

At the age of 76, Updike stands as one of the 'great white males' of American literature; a man whose work, along with that of the late Saul Bellow and Philip Roth, has in many ways described and ...

In late 1983, John Updike agreed to write an instruction ... the clubface striking the ball; picturing the face of a wedge nicely brings your hands and weight forward and usually averts a skull.

John Updike’s 20th novel, Seek My Face (Knopf, 288 pages ... his novels have been engaged in battles between deep grief on one hand and on the other a soaring affirmation of the sacred qualities ...

In the late spring of 1983, when John Updike ... s article, “Updike Is Home,” is illustrated with a photograph of a smiling Updike in front of the farmhouse, one hand in the front pocket ...

Stephen King has talked about it. The late Kurt Vonnegut actually did it, for the most part. John Updike has no intention of it. The word is retire, and it’s just not Updike’s style.

Sensitive to any criticism or slur, real or imagined, they respond with the weapons closest to hand: words ... Norman Mailer and John Updike, panned the new novel. Updike dismissed it as ...

Jeffrey Brown speaks with John Updike about his early career as an author ... checking the sheep through. His face was dark gray and his back stiff, as if he had just had an injection of iron ...

Rabbit is dead but John Updike ... In the hands of a gardener less skilled, this vegetation would run to riotously confusing underbrush, but nothing gets out of control in Updike`s part of the ...

John Updike ... basketball champion turned second-hand car dealer trapped in a tedious marriage from which he seeks refuge in extra-marital affairs. Updike's critics took him to task for what ...

According to the Associated Press, acclaimed writer John Updike has died ... that the book belongs in Updike's "lemon category." Margaret Atwood, on the other hand, calls the futuristic novel ...