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John Updike

Words Fail Norman Mailer
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From a September 2023 entry in Air Mail. My dad, Tom Wolfe, delighted in defending his style of writing and had no qualms about throwing barbs at other writers. In…

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The Portrait Gallery
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What the American Academy of Arts and Letters taught me about death

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Agreeable Angstrom
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John Updike, Yes-Man

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Among the Reviewers
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John Updike and the book-review bugaboo

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A fanatical mind
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The novelist and the terrorist

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The objects of childhood
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The writer’s reader
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A writer’s blocks
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January 1989

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