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Easy Gods

This piece was published years ago in Geez. This is the first thing I ever had published in a print magazine.

Easy Gods

I carry extra weight and acne like battle scars and badges. mais 241 palavras

Writing

Hay, Hay, My My

“Days, pale slices between nights, they blend, not exactly alike, transparencies so lightly tinted that only stacked all together do they darken to a fatal shade.” John Updike… mais 12 palavras

Lancaster Pennsylvania

The Continuing Saga Of John Cheever – How I Underachieved

The Stories of John Cheever

There is a thick volume resting on the coffee table next to my easy chair, nearly nine hundred pages long, resting quietly like some tired, old lizard (iguana) sunning itself on the volcanic rocks of a South Pacific island. mais 604 palavras

Short Stories

John Updike On Death

John Updike (March 18, 1932 – January 27, 2009)

Each person we were yesterday is dead. So why, one could say, be afraid of death, when death comes all the time.

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23 October 2019

What art offers is space – a certain breathing room for the spirit.

~ John Updike (1932-2009), American novelist, poet,
short-story writer, art critic, literary critic

Quotations

Reader's Corner: Going Back to Updike

In the London Review of Books, Patricia Lockwood does that thing some of us dread: Going back to the author we once loved—and everyone else told us to love—years later to see how they stand up. mais 218 palavras

Books