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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

Suspect each moment, for it is a thief, tiptoeing away with more than it brings.
_______John Updike

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2020-03-12

'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

Le giornate sono brevi
Il sole una scintilla
stesa sottile tra
buio e buio.
J. Updike

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2020-01-20

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

John Updike

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2019-09-27

We are most alive when
we're in love.
~ John Updike

.~°`•🌸

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2019-08-26

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

Lonni Sue Johnson, The New Yorker, December 16, 1985
at the New Yorker Signed by John Updike https://t.co/1NicIW8VW5

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2016-12-21

Lonni Sue Johnson, The New Yorker, December 16, 1985
at the New Yorker Signed by John Updike https://t.co/rBGlQom2Xp

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2016-12-08

Christmas at the New Yorker Signed by John Updike https://t.co/0GfkQZOFjX

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2016-12-05

Christmas at the New Yorker Signed by John Updike https://t.co/6tazRhOLp1

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2016-12-04

some mistakes are better than others

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2015-06-30

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

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2015-06-18