Due considerations : essays and criticism /
John Updike.
Bok Engelsk 2012 John. Updike,· Electronic books
| Utgitt | New York : : Random House Trade Paperbacks, , 2012.
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| Omfang | 1 online resource (xxii, 703 p. )
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| Utgave | Random House Trade Paperback Edition.
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| Opplysninger | Includes index.. - Foreword to the Easton press edition of licks of love -- Note on "Bech Noir" for the best American mystery stories 1999 -- Note on "personal archeology" for the best American short stories 2001 -- Note on "the walk with Elizanne" for the best American short stories 2004 -- Comment on "your lover just called," in the anthology this is my best -- Recurrent characters -- An interview conducted by Henry Bech -- Foreword to my own bibliography -- Three Brits (Tina Brown, Frank Kermode, André Deutsch) -- An account of my childhood reading -- A response to a request from Michael Dirda -- A response to GQ's request for my favorite year of the century -- Summer love -- The beautiful -- A response to a request from a Miss Gordon -- Early employments and inklings -- My Philadelphia -- A response to the question "why do I live in New England?" -- A response to a request for a memory of Harvard dorm life -- Statement for ethics, literature & theory -- My contribution to the NPR series this I believe -- Index.. - Preface -- Everything considered -- On literary biography -- Five essays -- Back from China -- A sense of change -- The future of faith -- Invisible cathedral -- Late works -- General considerations -- A case for books -- Looking back to now -- The Tried and the Trēowe -- A layman's scope -- Against angelolatry -- Ten Epochal moments in the American libido -- Five great novels about loving -- Hydrophobia -- My life in poker -- My life in cars -- Tributes and short takes -- West 155th street -- The academy as it was and is: A talk, with slides -- The New Yorker -- William Shawn -- William Maxwell -- Wright Morris -- Eudora Welty -- Ernest Hemingway -- Ted Williams -- November 22, 1963 -- J.F.K., Jr. -- September 11, 2001 -- Considering books -- Introductions -- To the everyman's library edition of The Mabinogion -- To the Blithedale romance/ Nathaniel Hawthorne -- To Walden/ Henry David Thoreau: 150th anniversary edition -- To the portrait of a lady/ Henry James --. - The man in bed -- Poet on the fault line -- No brakes -- A natural writer -- Young Iris -- Art -- One obstinate survivor on another -- Metropolitan art -- Deceptively conceptual -- Dürer's passions -- The thing itself -- The imaginary builder -- Personal considerations -- A tribute to Saul Steinberg -- Introduction to the world of William Steig -- Introduction to a section of the complete cartoons of The New Yorker -- The would-be animator -- Introduction to poor Arnold's almanac -- Introduction to Chip Kidd: book one: 1986-2006 -- Foreword to the catalogue of my father's house (Will Barnet) -- A reminiscence of Hyman Bloom -- Saint Nick: essay for the catalogue of George Nick: A retrospective -- Foreword to the MFA publications reprint of just looking -- Foreword to the Stackpole Books edition of Buchanan dying -- A "special message" for the Franklin library edition of Gertrude and Claudius -- Prefacio to poemas 1953-1999 -- Foreword to humor in fiction --. - To the diary of Adam and Eve and other Adamic stories/ MarkTwain -- To seven men/ Max Beerbohm -- To the rich boy/ F. Scott Fitzgerald -- To the eighth day/ Thornton Wilder -- To the golden west: Hollywood Stories/ Daniel Fuchs -- To Karl Shapiro: Selected Poems -- To elephant house, or, the home of Edward Gorey/ Kevin McDermott -- To Christmas at the New Yorker: stories, poems, humor, and art -- To the German catalogue of an exhibit of photographs by Ulrich Mack of the Ipswich marshes -- Monuments -- The great I am -- Big dead white man -- Down the river -- Oz Is us -- Hide and seek -- Thurber and White -- Introduction to the perennial edition of Is sex necessary? -- Thurber's art -- Magnum Opus -- Introduction to a new edition of the letters of E.B. White -- American fiction -- These trashy years -- Coming home -- Tote that Ephemera -- Dog's tears -- One-Way street -- Red loves Rex, Alas -- Angel-Tits and Hellmouth -- Mind/body problems I -- Mixed messages -- The great game gone -- A cloud of dust -- English fiction -- Property and presumption -- A same-sex idyll -- Fairy tales and paradigms -- Stonewalling Toffs -- Flesh on flesh -- Absent presences -- Mind/body problems II -- Flashy to the rescue -- In English but not English -- Home care -- Love and loss on Zycron -- Dangerous into beautiful -- Both rough and tender -- Papery passions -- Blood and paint -- A case of Deutschfeindlichkeit, or, All about Abish -- The story of himself -- Pre-gay gray -- Paradises lost -- In other tongues -- Dying for love -- The lone sailor -- Two's a crowd -- Mind/body problems III -- Suppressed atrocities -- Murder among the miniaturists -- Arabesques of ambivalence -- Extended performance -- Subconscious tunnels -- Bitter bamboo -- Non-fiction -- Groaning shelves -- Can Eve be reprieved? -- Was sex necessary? -- Chanel No. 1 -- The poor babies -- Drawn to gypsies -- Survivor/believer -- Twice collected -- Literary biography -- Mud and flames -- Incommensurability --. - Product description: Updike reflects on such writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, Don DeLillo, A.S. Byatt, Colson Whitehead, and Margaret Atwood. He visits China, goes to art exhibitions, provides a whimsical and insightful list of 'Ten Epochal Moments in the American Libido,' and shares his thoughts on the fall of the Twin Towers, which he witnessed from a tenth-floor apartment in Brooklyn.
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| ISBN | 0-307-55580-1
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