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"It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you." -- John Updike

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2021-02-26

"There is in him a stunning, almost mad, absence of two major presences in modern art: theory and cities" (John Updike)

New England poet of the sea Winslow Homer was born 1836 in Boston

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2021-02-24

The 60th Anniversary of the publication of John Updike's 'Rabbit Run'. Beatrix Potter's Peter Rabbit, trapped in Mr McGregor's netting was a, perhaps surprising, influence.

Updike's statement on the beauty of books was one of the motivating factors for my own publishing efforts.

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2020-11-03

A Child's Calender: November
by John Updike

Art by Lisa Graa Jensen

The striped and shapely
Maple grieves
The loss of her
Departed leaves

The ground is hard
As hard as stone.
The year is old.
The birds are flown.

And yet the world,
Nevertheless,
Displays a certain loveliness

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2020-11-03

"Writers take words seriously perhaps the last professional class that does and they struggle to steer their own through the crosswinds of meddling editors and careless typesetters and obtuse and malevolent reviewers into the lap of the ideal reader"

matters

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2020-05-13

'A book is beautiful in its relation to the human hand, to the human eye, to the human mind & to the human spirit'. Updike's quote inspired my efforts. The 3 Longley's with a painting. Colin's portrait of Michael. Armitage & Updike by Paul Wright.

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2020-03-05

What art offers is space - a certain breathing room for the spirit.

John Updike

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2019-09-28

Here’s the awesome artwork for the month of August from A Child’s Calendar. The book was originally published in 1965, but was reissued in 1999 with new illustrations by the great

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2019-08-01

New piece in Caitlin Shetterly's essay reflecting back on her correspondence with John Updike & first job. https://t.co/yZvOOxugNs

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2018-03-18

An tale about last chances and reflections, "The Journey to the Dead," on http://t.co/oOGNM0iL0w

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2015-06-18