News: The Rabbit Died
I’m obsessive about the news and I just saw the New York Times obit on prolific author John Updike. I’m ashamed to admit I’ve never read Mr. Updike’s novels, even the Rabbit series–although they’ve been on a list of books to be read. Below is the first paragraph of the obituary. To read the entire article, click on the headline.
John Updike, a Lyrical Writer of the Ordinary, Is Dead at 76
John Updike, the kaleidoscopically gifted writer whose quartet of Rabbit Angstrom novels highlighted so vast and protean a body of fiction, verse, essays and criticism as to earn him comparisons with Henry James and Edmund Wilson among American men of letters, died today at a hospice outside Boston. He was 76 and lived in Beverly Farms, Mass.
Rebeca Schiller is the editor of Alvah's Books. She reviews literary fiction and non-fiction.