Picked-Up Pieces
Essays
Essays
By John Updike
By John Updike
By John Updike
By John Updike
Category: Literary Collections | Literary Criticism | History
Category: Literary Collections | Literary Criticism | History
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Paperback $20.00
Jan 15, 2013 | ISBN 9780812983807
Higher Gossip
The Playwright’s Process
Shakespeare Basics for Grown-Ups
American Vertigo
Dance for Two
Ask Not
Genes, Girls, and Gamow
The Man Who Invented the Computer
Mozart: Letters
Praise
“[Updike’s] interests are wide . . . his prose is clear and straight, and his powers of organization and explication are formidable. . . . There is an immensely attractive, nonacademic attentiveness to his reviews. At his best he goes right to the human center, the heart of a writer expressed in his art.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Updike is a strong reviewer. . . . He describes precisely, praises judiciously, criticizes fearlessly, and ponders seriously.”—The New Republic
“Updike possesses that intuitive sense of other writers’ temperaments that raises literary criticism to the level of art. . . . If he wished, Updike could become one of our finest literary critics as well as novelists, an heir to that imposing predecessor in the pages of The New Yorker, Edmund Wilson.”—James Atlas, The New York Times Magazine
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