1. Louis Menand's Updike piece is of course terrific, but.... http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2014/04/28/140428crbo_books_menand?currentPage=all …
5. Because of his framework of U as autobiographical writer & hostility towards Martha, Begley dismisses huge chunk of U's work.
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6. On larger point, agree with Menand about Updike's "cultural project" but would add that religion as important to project as modernism.
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7. Lutheranism, Updike's primordial faith, has strong emphasis on liturgy. Updike's ecstatic prose was form of liturgy.
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