Novelist John Updike dies at age 76 -- Newsday.com

[Rob Jackson]

Sad news. Had only just finished a reread of Rabbit, Run in the new  
Penguin paperback series which has the long Afterword to the four  
novels that Updike wrote in 1995. If nothing else, that set of novels  
(including 2001's Rabbit Remembered) places Updike at the very top of  
the American literary pantheon.

Updike's Memories of the Ford Administration (1992) covers a lot of  
the same territory as Vineland, without the kooky cartoon overkill of  
Pynchon's novel.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Updike

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> Subject: Novelist John Updike dies at age 76 -- Newsday.com
> Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 13:30:18 -0500
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