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People and books that helped form who I am today:
#GrahamGreene
#JohnUpdike
#WalkerPercy
#kurtvonnegutjr
#JohnIrving
#RalphEllison
#HermannHesse
#LorenEiseley
#JamesBaldwin
#JohnSteinbeck
#RayBradbury
#FrankHerbert
#StrangerInAStrangeLand
#MalcomX
#KimStanleyRobinson
#JulianJaynes
#SomeTimesAGreatNotion
#WendellBerry
#WhatArePeopleFor
#EdwardAbbey
#DesertSolitaire
#TomRussell
#CarlHiaasen
#MichaelPollan
#BotanyOfDesire
#PattiSmith
#MichaelStipe
#DavidSedaris
#CormacMcCarthy -
People and books that helped form who I am today:
#GrahamGreene
#JohnUpdike
#WalkerPercy
#kurtvonnegutjr
#JohnIrving
#RalphEllison
#HermannHesse
#LorenEiseley
#JamesBaldwin
#JohnSteinbeck
#RayBradbury
#FrankHerbert
#StrangerInAStrangeLand
#MalcomX
#KimStanleyRobinson
#JulianJaynes
#SomeTimesAGreatNotion
#WendellBerry
#WhatArePeopleFor
#EdwardAbbey
#DesertSolitaire
#TomRussell
#CarlHiaasen
#MichaelPollan
#BotanyOfDesire
#PattiSmith
#MichaelStipe
#DavidSedaris
#CormacMcCarthy -
People and books that helped form who I am today:
#GrahamGreene
#JohnUpdike
#WalkerPercy
#kurtvonnegutjr
#JohnIrving
#RalphEllison
#HermannHesse
#LorenEiseley
#JamesBaldwin
#JohnSteinbeck
#RayBradbury
#FrankHerbert
#StrangerInAStrangeLand
#MalcomX
#KimStanleyRobinson
#JulianJaynes
#SomeTimesAGreatNotion
#WendellBerry
#WhatArePeopleFor
#EdwardAbbey
#DesertSolitaire
#TomRussell
#CarlHiaasen
#MichaelPollan
#BotanyOfDesire
#PattiSmith
#MichaelStipe
#DavidSedaris
#CormacMcCarthy -
People and books that helped form who I am today:
#GrahamGreene
#JohnUpdike
#WalkerPercy
#kurtvonnegutjr
#JohnIrving
#RalphEllison
#HermannHesse
#LorenEiseley
#JamesBaldwin
#JohnSteinbeck
#RayBradbury
#FrankHerbert
#StrangerInAStrangeLand
#MalcomX
#KimStanleyRobinson
#JulianJaynes
#SomeTimesAGreatNotion
#WendellBerry
#WhatArePeopleFor
#EdwardAbbey
#DesertSolitaire
#TomRussell
#CarlHiaasen
#MichaelPollan
#BotanyOfDesire
#PattiSmith
#MichaelStipe
#DavidSedaris
#CormacMcCarthy -
People and books that helped form who I am today:
#GrahamGreene
#JohnUpdike
#WalkerPercy
#kurtvonnegutjr
#JohnIrving
#RalphEllison
#HermannHesse
#LorenEiseley
#JamesBaldwin
#JohnSteinbeck
#RayBradbury
#FrankHerbert
#StrangerInAStrangeLand
#MalcomX
#KimStanleyRobinson
#JulianJaynes
#SomeTimesAGreatNotion
#WendellBerry
#WhatArePeopleFor
#EdwardAbbey
#DesertSolitaire
#TomRussell
#CarlHiaasen
#MichaelPollan
#BotanyOfDesire
#PattiSmith
#MichaelStipe
#DavidSedaris
#CormacMcCarthy -
"I want to write books that unlock the traffic jam in everybody’s head."
~ John Updike, born today, 1932.
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It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values -- the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle.
-- John Updike⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JohnUpdike #Books
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #ChacoCanyon #PuebloBonito #Ruins #360panorama #NewMexico
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John Updike’s best books – Ranked! https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2025/dec/22/john-updikes-best-books-ranked #JohnUpdike #Culture #Fiction #Books
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John Updike: A Life in Letters review – the man incapable of writing a bad sentence https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/nov/17/john-updike-a-life-in-letters-review-the-man-incapable-of-writing-a-bad-sentence #Biographybooks #JohnUpdike #Culture #Books
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Any activity becomes creative when the doer cares about doing it right, or doing it better.
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This is based on John Updike’s 1984 novel “The Witches of Eastwick” but there are several major changes like Van Horne being a devil, the way women get their powers and uhh.. the entire ending🙃
#SatMat #TheWitchesOfEastwick #JohnUpdike -
This is based on John Updike’s 1984 novel “The Witches of Eastwick” but there are several major changes like Van Horne being a devil, the way women get their powers and uhh.. the entire ending🙃
#SatMat #TheWitchesOfEastwick #JohnUpdike -
This is based on John Updike’s 1984 novel “The Witches of Eastwick” but there are several major changes like Van Horne being a devil, the way women get their powers and uhh.. the entire ending🙃
#SatMat #TheWitchesOfEastwick #JohnUpdike -
This is based on John Updike’s 1984 novel “The Witches of Eastwick” but there are several major changes like Van Horne being a devil, the way women get their powers and uhh.. the entire ending🙃
#SatMat #TheWitchesOfEastwick #JohnUpdike -
This is based on John Updike’s 1984 novel “The Witches of Eastwick” but there are several major changes like Van Horne being a devil, the way women get their powers and uhh.. the entire ending🙃
#SatMat #TheWitchesOfEastwick #JohnUpdike -
Depardieu is on trial, and so is France. It’s a cultural reckoning in an era of #MeToo https://www.byteseu.com/866993/ #AdeleHaenel #AlainMorel #AmberHeard #AnoukGrinberg #CannesFilmFestival #CatherineDeneuve #celebrity #EmmanuelMacron #Entertainment #France #GeneralNews #GrardDepardieu #Indictments #JeanDujardin #JohnUpdike #JohnnyDepp #JudithGodreche #MeToo #movies #NicolasBedos #RomanPolanski #SexualAssault #VladimirPutin #Women'sRights #WorldNews #YasmineBensalem
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It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values -- the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle.
-- John Updike⬆ #Wisdom #Quotes #JohnUpdike #Books
⬇ #Photography #Panorama #Sunset #Kayaks #Everglades #Florida
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[The New Yorker Archive]: A Nation of Eyewitnesses to J.F.K.’s Assassination
How it feels—and what it means—to watch a President slain on TV. By John Updike November 29, 1963“None of our country’s four slain Presidents were victims of any distinct idea of opposition or hope of gain; they were sacrificed, rather, to the blind tides of criminality and insanity that make civilization precarious. [..]
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1963/12/07/john-updike-jfk-assassination-comment
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#Quotes #Sanity #Society #JohnUpdike
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. -John Updike, writer (18 Mar 1932-2009) -
Reading some essays by #JohnUpdike on #art came across this great painting by John Sloan (one of the Ashcan school of American #artists) of his wife putting out the washing on a Sunday... somehow captures the tenement living of early C20th #NewYork concisely....
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#Quotes #AWAD #AnuGarg #ThoughtForToday #JohnUpdike
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. -John Updike, writer (18 Mar 1932-2009) -
#GreatOpeningLines #DrMardyGrothe #Quotes #JohnUpdike
"Pity the poor bore. He stands among us as a creature formidable and familiar yet in essence unknowable. We can read of the ten infallible signs whereby he may be recognized and of the seven tested methods whereby he may be rebuffed.
Valuable monographs exist upon his dress and diet; the study of his mating habits and migrational routes is well past the speculative stage; and statistical studies abound. One out of three hundred and twelve Americans is a bore, for instance, and a healthy adult male bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people’s patience.” John Updike Confessions of a Wild Bore (1965)
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#Quotes #AWAD #AnuGarg #JohnUpdike
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
Smaller than a breadbox, bigger than a TV remote, the average book fits into the human hand with a seductive nestling, a kiss of texture, whether of cover cloth, glazed jacket, or flexible paperback. -John Updike, writer (18 Mar 1932-2009) -
27. Januar 2007: #HeuteVor 𝟏𝟒 Jahren erlag in Danvers 🇺🇸 der US-amerikanische Schriftsteller #JohnUpdike im Alter von 76 Jahren dem Lungenkrebs. Berühmt wurde Updike mit #Hasenherz, dem ersten Band seiner Rabbit-Serie. Die Lebensgeschichte des Protagonisten Harry „Rabbit“ Angstrom hat mich in den Siebzigerjahren zur Leseratte gemacht. Ich war hin und weg. Es gibt auch eine Buchbesprechung zum letzten Band, in der auch die Vorgeschichte aufgerollt wird:
https://e-script.de/2003/rabbit-eine-rueckkehr/ :plume: -
From a meme suggested by . . .
my five favorite authors:
#virginiawoolf
#maylisdekerangel
#wilfridsheed
#colsonwhitehead
#johnupdike (stories and essays)
