THESE FORUMS NOW CLOSED (read only)
Fun Stuff => ENJOY => Topic started by: Faker on 27 Jan 2009, 10:56
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Sad news the double Pulitzer winning John Updike has died today
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This is truly sad and a major loss for the world of literature. Updike was, until today, the living American writer with arguably the greatest oeuvre. He was certainly a master of his craft in any case.
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Fuck. Fuck.
Fuck.
Fuck. Fuck. Fuck.
I go to the New York Times site to look at some reviews of older books, and this news awaits me. I actually feel kind of devastated. I just wasted a bunch of time in the library reading some of his older New Yorker articles. Fuck.
I think I'll reread Rabbit, Run this week, I guess.
Fuck.
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The New Yorker is running a series of brief remembrances by a number of authors here (http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/remembering-upd/). Joyce Carol Oates, Richard Ford, Jonathan Lethem, Julian Barnes, and others. Worth reading.
Still feeling pretty bummed about this. Fuck.