@HeerJeet Updike was made a member of The American Academy of Arts & Letters at 32, and was asked to sit for a Paris Review Interview at 34.
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Replying to @CarlRobertAnd
@CarlRobertAnd Alfred Kazin called Updike the brightest of the bright kids. A similar idea.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@CarlRobertAnd And Updike's admiration for Nabokov was mutual; no small thing.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @matthunte
@matthunte@HeerJeet Just as importantly, J.D. Salinger's approval of "Ace in the Hole" meant a lot.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @CarlRobertAnd
@CarlRobertAnd@matthunte Adverse criticism & divorce both shook up Updike's complacency in ways that I think were useful. Others disagree.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@matthunte I think the chance of portraying divorce accurately invigorated him, sure.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @CarlRobertAnd
@CarlRobertAnd@matthunte Yes. But also complacency of early Updike is gone. 1970s/1980s work much more troubled.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@matthunte What is complacent, exactly? The prose, the subject matter?2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @CarlRobertAnd
@CarlRobertAnd@matthunte There is a kind of untroubled gratitude & praise giving in the early books that adultery/divorce shook up.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@matthunte Early writing had, mostly, a backward glance. And it was Romantic. Updike's style and his eye was a perfect match.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@CarlRobertAnd @matthunte Right: romantic panegyrics of someone who enjoyed v. blessed life. Adult acquisition of guilt & pain deepened him
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Replying to @HeerJeet
@HeerJeet@matthunte But for me the novels take on the feeling of being written for some public reason or demand.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @CarlRobertAnd
@CarlRobertAnd@matthunte Sure, autobiographical retrospective impulse of 1950s/1960s work was Updike at his most natural.0 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
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