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Ted Williams, paper cuts and the moon:Plain DealerTed Williams, paper cuts and the moon: Strange but TruePlain DealerIn his 1960 New Yorker article, novelist John Updike wrote, "Of all team sports, baseball, with its graceful intermittences of action, its immense and tranquil field sparsely settled with poised men in white, its dispassionate mathematics, ...Posted on 13 May 2012 | 5:12 pm
John Updike's Childhood Home to Be Museum -John Updike's Childhood Home to Be Museummediabistro.comBy Maryann Yin on May 11, 2012 3:23 PM The John Updike Society has finalized a contract to purchase John Updike's home for $200000. Located in the Pennsylvania town of Shillington, Updike lived in the home for thirteen years as a child.Deal reached on Updike home saleReading Eagleall 2 news articles »
Posted on 11 May 2012 | 4:22 pm
Author Charles Baxter wins prize for shortAuthor Charles Baxter wins prize for short fictionWall Street JournalPrevious winners include John Updike, Grace Paley and Richard Ford. —Copyright 2012 Associated Press This copy is for your personal, non-commercial use only. Distribution and use of this material are governed by our Subscriber Agreement and by ...Author Charles Baxter wins $30000 Rea Award for short fiction; wrote 'Harmony ...Washington Postall 107 news articles »
Posted on 11 May 2012 | 3:11 pm
John Updike Society agrees to buy author'sWFMZ AllentownJohn Updike Society agrees to buy author's boyhood homeWFMZ AllentownAn official with the John Updike Society said the group has agreed to buy the Pulitzer Prize winner's home for $200000, but the society said the sale depends on a zoning change that would let the home become a museum about the author's life.
Posted on 10 May 2012 | 8:32 pm
John Updike's house to become a museum - LosJohn Updike's house to become a museumLos Angeles Times (blog)The childhood home of John Updike will be turned into a museum, if all goes as planned. The fate of the house in Shillington, Pa., which was up for sale, had been uncertain. Now the John Updike Society has announced it signed an agreement to purchase ...and more »
Posted on 10 May 2012 | 6:02 pm
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Roy Hodgson liking John Updike will takeThe new England manager is serious and classy so should he really be reading work by such a frisky author? Refracted unflatteringly through the prism of modern football's revolving idiot-scope, there is a tendency for football managers to dwindle away to a single defining point. With England managers it is a case of shrinking, over many months, into a single easily bellowed caricature. Sven ...Posted on 18 May 2012 | 9:18 pm
Have we fallen out of love with John Updike?Three years after John Updike's death, his reputation appears to be on the wane. But who else can match his deftness and grace? Happy news from across the water . 117 Philadelphia Ave, Shillington, childhood home of John Updike, has been bought by the Updike Society for what seems, to one humbled by the London property market, a snip at $200000. Their plan is to run the house as an "historic ...
Posted on 16 May 2012 | 6:20 pm
John Updike Society Buys Author'sAn organization plans to preserve John Updike's boyhood home in Shillington, Pa., as a historic site.
Posted on 14 May 2012 | 9:31 pm
Yao Ming's Exclusive Book; The BlurbToday in books and publishing: Yao Ming's memoir is going to a very limited edition, John Updike's fixer-upper of a boyhood home will be turned into a museum, and the truth about book blurbs.
Posted on 11 May 2012 | 3:44 pm
John Updike Society agrees to buyA sold sign could soon be hanging outside John Updike's boyhood home in Shillington. An official with the John Updike Society said the group has agreed to buy the Pulitzer Prize winner's home for $200,000, but the society said the sale depends on a zoning change that would let the home become a museum about the author's life. The society said it will make sure the museum doesn't change the ...
Posted on 10 May 2012 | 8:31 pm
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Future of author John Updike's Pa. houseLate author John Updike's childhood home is for sale and facing an uncertain future.Posted on 19 April 2012 | 2:50 pm
Amazon snags exclusive deal for e-editionsIt's war between Random House Inc. and a top literacy agency.
Posted on 22 July 2010 | 11:51 am
John Updike, prize-winning writer, dead atFor readers and writers of a certain generation, it's hard to imagine that they will have to grow old, or at least older, without John Updike.
Posted on 27 January 2009 | 6:23 pm
John Updike wins special Bad Sex in fictionIt's not quite the Nobel Prize, but John Updike has a new literary accolade: laureate of bad sex.
Posted on 25 November 2008 | 7:05 pm
Random House to digitize thousands of booksWith e-book sales exploding in an otherwise sleepy market, Random House Inc. announced Monday that it was making thousands of additional books available in digital form, including novels by John Updike and Harlan Coben, as well as several volumes of the "Magic Treehouse" children's series.
Posted on 24 November 2008 | 5:11 am
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Perfectionism is the enemy of creation, asPerfectionism is the enemy of creation, as extreme self-solitude is the enemy of well-being, -John Updike, Odd JobsPosted on 23 May 2012 | 8:33 am
Sex is like money; only too much is enough.Sex is like money; only too much is enough. John Updike
Posted on 23 May 2012 | 7:42 am
There are some women that don't do it forThere are some women that don't do it for some men. That's why they turn out so many models. JOHN UPDIKE, Rabbit is Rich
Posted on 23 May 2012 | 7:32 am
RT @HannahSplendid: Sex is like money; onlyRT @HannahSplendid: Sex is like money; only too much is enough. John Updike
Posted on 23 May 2012 | 7:31 am
Sex is like money; only too much is enough.Sex is like money; only too much is enough. John Updike
Posted on 23 May 2012 | 7:28 am
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Barney Rosset Memorial, JohnBarney Rosset Memorial, John Updike's Childhood Home has New Owner, and More. by Evan Smith Rakoff. Daily News. Online Only, posted 5.15.12. Every day Poets & Writers Magazine scans the headlines—from publishing reports to ...Posted on 15 May 2012 | 5:31 pm
John Updike's home will become aThe Reading Eagle have announced that the John Updike Society has finalized plans to buy the author's childhood home in Shillington, Pennsylvania, for $200000. Updike, who died in 2009, lived in the Philadelphia Ave.
Posted on 15 May 2012 | 4:00 am
John Updike Society Buys Author'sAn organization plans to preserve John Updike's boyhood home in Shillington, Pa., as a historic site.
Posted on 14 May 2012 | 8:28 pm
John Updike's Childhood Home toThe John Updike Society has finalized a contract to purchase John Updike's home for $200000. Located in the Pennsylvania town of Shillington, Updike lived in the home for thirteen years as a child. John Updike Society ...
Posted on 11 May 2012 | 12:05 pm
John Updike's house to become aThe John Updike Society will purchase the author's childhood home, with plans to turn it into a museum.
Posted on 10 May 2012 | 6:02 pm
