Aside from the Rabbit books & The Centaur, Updike's best writing can be found in his book reviews.
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@nathanwhitlock He could be glib, especially in later years, and sometimes flaky (i.e. on Erica Jong) but best reviews cut deep.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
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@nathanwhitlock I know what you mean but you always got a sense of what's wrong with a book, even if he refrains from devastating epitaph.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
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@nathanwhitlock Interesting thing was that he was much harder on American contemporaries (say Philip Roth or DeLillo) than foreign writers.
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