(Even a writer as conventional as John Updike is sometimes attacked for these sins.).    From Wordnik.com.  [Style in Fiction] Reference

However, Updike is a much better writer overall and definitely knows how to write much better stories than this Webster guy does.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Merriam-Webster English Dictionary « Books « Literacy News] Reference

But the phrase Updike uses to describe Cheever's unhappy life, "menacing miasma," is apt, and applies to accounts of David Foster Wallace's life as well.    From Wordnik.com.  [Emdashes] Reference

John Updike is certainly in the final analysis a writer who has produced such fiction, even if one does have to pick and choose when surveying his very large body of work.    From Wordnik.com.  [Updike, John] Reference

In some ways, the critical response to John Updike's recent work seems to me similar to that accorded to Harold Bloom's, even though Updike is a novelist and Bloom a critic.    From Wordnik.com.  [Updike, John] Reference

Several poems in "Endpoint" recall Updike's early years in Shillington, Pa.    From Wordnik.com.  [Archive 2009-04-01] Reference

Updike comes from a sterner school; he doesn’t want a narrative awash with sentimentality.    From Wordnik.com.  [On John Updike « Tales from the Reading Room] Reference

ALL of the above seems ‘probably true in Updike’s light and heavy world of getting one’s whole life down in words.    From Wordnik.com.  [January « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground] Reference

May 26, 2004 in Updike, John | Permalink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Updike, John] Reference

July 29, 2004 in Updike, John | Permalink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Updike, John] Reference

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August 31, 2004 in Updike, John | Permalink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Updike, John] Reference

February 08, 2010 in Updike, John | Permalink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Rabbit's Run] Reference

September 28, 2004 in Updike, John | Permalink.    From Wordnik.com.  [Updike, John] Reference

) (btw, John Updike is a cousin of mine, and I’m glad to see he’s escaped your wrath:)).    From Wordnik.com.  [Waldo Jaquith - The New Yorker’s fiction is terrible.] Reference

Updike was delighted to do the book for a number of reasons.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Carduff: "Hub Fans" Redux: John Updike, Ted Williams, and the Great American Essay] Reference

"" You see it with Mailer and Updike spitting and fuming at Wolfe.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Wolfe Bites Back] Reference

The movie and the marriage, of course, are like pages out of Updike.    From Wordnik.com.  [Picks And Licks] Reference

Either that or Turnbull's cracking up -- Updike certainly appears to be.    From Wordnik.com.  [Toward The End Of Time] Reference

That wasn't true when Wolfe and Mailer and Updike came of age in midcentury.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Wolfe Bites Back] Reference

Mr. Begley interviewed Updike again in the fall of 2003 for an Observer profile.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Observer's Own Adam Begley to Write Updike Bio for HarperCollins] Reference

At one point in "U and I" Baker asks his wife if he's a better writer than Updike.    From Wordnik.com.  [A 'Thing' About Updike Stalking A Literary Lion] Reference

Updike wondered in his fifties, trying to puzzle out the heart of his twelve-year-old self.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Carduff: "Hub Fans" Redux: John Updike, Ted Williams, and the Great American Essay] Reference

As for Wolfe's feud with Mailer and Updike, Oates dismisses that as "" all made up by the media.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Wolfe Bites Back] Reference

For Updike, Williams was Polaris, a fixed inspirational twinkling both to steer by and to wish upon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Carduff: "Hub Fans" Redux: John Updike, Ted Williams, and the Great American Essay] Reference

Later, when he was 35-years-old, Mr. Begley interviewed Updike for a profile in the magazine Mirabella.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Observer's Own Adam Begley to Write Updike Bio for HarperCollins] Reference

Updike threw out the conviction in July because jurors had admitted they saw Jocelyn Earnest's journals.    From Wordnik.com.  [Va. man's trial to move counties] Reference

While you might not agree with Mailer or Updike or Bloom, you have to concede that they took Wolfe seriously.    From Wordnik.com.  [Mr. Wolfe Bites Back] Reference

And "Playboy's" writers -- Mailer, Bradbury, Kerouac, Updike were sometimes even hotter than the centerfolds.    From Wordnik.com.  [CNN Transcript Dec 4, 2003] Reference

For me Updike in the clutch, like Updike the day-in-day-out professional writer, was just slightly larger than life.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Carduff: "Hub Fans" Redux: John Updike, Ted Williams, and the Great American Essay] Reference

Ellroy, Updike, the two Roths, Henry and Philip, and the latest from the local guys, Madison Smartt Bell and Stephen Dixon.    From Wordnik.com.  [Butchers Hill]

In the Twentieth Century, the Great American Novelists, Roth, Mailer and Updike, just got plain embarrassing in their dotage.    From Wordnik.com.  [Fearful of the Wetlands?] Reference

Updike wrote in so many different forms; I have read just about all of his novels and many of his short stories, essays and poems.    From Wordnik.com.  [Ten Books That Influenced Me: In a Blink] Reference

Thinking big, thinking cosmically, thinking in absolute standards, Updike hitched his wagon not to a local celebrity, but to Zeus.    From Wordnik.com.  [Christopher Carduff: "Hub Fans" Redux: John Updike, Ted Williams, and the Great American Essay] Reference

In this sense, Updike was specifically of his postwar, pre-rebellion moment; and certain of his triumphs seem, now, to belong to the past.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Alchemist of the Mundane] Reference