Tuesday, January 27, 2009

RIP John Updike

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Sad news.

2 comments:

cdee said...

Sad. Along with the death of the paper lit mag and paper books, to also have some of the standards die feels like the end of an era.

I read Witches of Eastwick last week because of a prompt through Goodreads and am about to read the sequel. It's funny how I'm already upping the rank I plan to give for fear of being haunted.

Are you guys still reading print mags?

jack said...

I was trying to explain to Max what the role of the author as scholar used to be, and how it brought a kind of celebrity that semms to be reserved only for movie directors these days. It felt to me that Updike had a hand in changing the way the world worked.

I get the author's place in the world is not what it used to be, but I don't see a clear path evolving. Who are the authors who are changing the way literature is read now? Junot Diaz? Zadie Smith?