Women Laughing To Screen At MoCCA 2026, Sunday, March 29th –photo: Eric Korenman Info here _______________________________________________________ Show & Tell: John Updike’s Steinberg Original At a recent public appearance in Ipswich, Massachusetts, Michael Updike, John Updike’s third child, lead into reading from Selected Letters Of John Updike (Knopf, 2025; Edited by James Schiff) with a “show and tell” of the original
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John Updike’s Want List At 17 Noted in the just published Selected Letters of John Updike, edited by James Schiff: a postcard sent by a 17 year old John Updike to Barnes & Noble, dated June 15, 1949, requesting the following books be held for him: ______________________________________________________________ Unfortunate Cover Art By now, I shouldn’t be surprised when I run across
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Latest addition To The Spill Library: Selected Letters Of John Updike Just out yesterday: The Selected Letters of John Updike, edited by James Schiff (Knopf). I’ve been eagerly awaiting this book, knowing (or at least hoping) that there’d be a number of references to New Yorker artists and art. I was not disappointed (you can see in the accompanying photo
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