John Updike will be mainly remembered for his great "Rabbit" teratology, but he was also a gifted short story writer and critic. He will be missed. From The NY Times:
Endowed with an art student’s pictorial imagination, a journalist’s sociological eye and a poet’s gift for metaphor, John Updike — who died on Tuesday at 76 — was arguably this country’s one true all-around man of letters. He moved fluently from fiction to criticism, from light verse to short stories to the long-distance form of the novel: a literary decathlete in our age of electronic distraction and willful specialization, Victorian in his industriousness and almost blogger-like in his determination to turn every scrap of knowledge and experience into words.
John Updike possessed a truly beautiful mind; he didn't just write well, he wrote wisely
Posted by: coffee | January 30, 2009 at 05:14 PM