John Updike interview (1999)

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[@terrenceolivido741]

sigh, a very very kind genius. i suppose not too many - including Updike - would want to use the term genius here - but i can. Updike was a genius of kindness. his work, his talent, his spreading kindness to writers and literature ... add them together and you get ...

[@adamcarroll1975]

WOW - first time I’ve watched an Updike interview. He’s interesting and fascinating. I’ll have to read some of his work.

[@paulcornell3155]

John Updike both writes like a poet and speaks like one,the flow and connection are musical.

[@iancrombie8862]

Friend of John Cheever

[@petestevens3970]

To make a sort of music from the imagery, the short story as “fugue-like” and more (notions). Updike has such an original mind, such a gracious temperament - at least to my way of thinking - as is displayed in these many interviews.

[@jeffreyc.mcandrew8911]

Brilliant!

[@thegirlwholeftthefridgeopen]

After watching this, I went to Amazon and looked for 'Best Short Stories of the 20th Century' and it was at a ridiculously cheap price for this tome of a book. I brought this book with me when living abroad and it was (and still is) helping me discover America, is helping me see what it means to be American. Growing up, I overlooked this lifestyle that we lived in, and as I was reading one of the short stories, I was taken back to my past growing up in America and saw just 'how' American my life was and that many people didn't grow up in this kind of culture. Im not doing enough justice but you have to trust me about these stories, they are the 'BEST' short stories selected from the 'BEST' and after you read the first piece 'Zelig' you will see just what I am talking about. I soon became interested in America was getting the wrong impression of America through the media and changing my sources by looking at America through its literature and its artists. This book is a celebration of the American identity, the spirit of self-reliance, independence, hard-work and is full of feelings of happiness and sadness at the extremes. You can easily read one story a day before you go to sleep, and discover a piece of America that has been lost due to the 'age of the screen'. Did anyone else have this experience? Any favorite piece from the collection? It is also a great gift to send to friends.

[@Brandon-tk2rw]

lol it's definitely not the best... they have a story from so e forgettable chick Hemingway banged, but they don't have anything from Richard Yates? 🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡🤡

[@whawkins8636]

I wonder what Harold Bloom's opinion was of Updike. I have all of the Rabbit stories- love them.

[@jonharrison9222]

He said he was a minor novelist with a major style.

[@hectormanuel9793]

​​@@jonharrison9222Bit late, a year later, but Bloom may have been wrong, many people from around the world that are reading Updike in translation are finding that spoke more about americans in his age than any other writer they know.

[@jeffrey3498]

Mr. Updike is, to be lowbrow, awesome. I think he gives too much credit to Harry, Rabbit.

[@ЕржанНасанов]

I wander If John Updike could actually draw

[@petestevens3970]

Updike began, as he mentioned, aspiring to be a cartoonist: Hence his time at Ruskin. If one looks at his handwriting, in some ways kind of a looping script, one can see such a thing; also in his manner of describing, it can seem to have an art school-trained, artist’s eye.