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Pigeon feathers: And other stories (Crest book d605)

11 reviews
John Updike

Crest Book, 1963

Top of his craft
I'm a budding short story writer, myself; and no course, no workshop, no amount of instruction can subsitute for the lessons one learns leafing through and ingesting these exquisite paragraphs of John Updike. I find myself, in this volume, more than other Updike works, reading and re-reading the prose, even emailing sections to friends. Like a fine restaurant I want to tell people about, like a ...

Best of the Oxford American: Ten Years from the Southern Magazine of Good Writing

4 reviews
John Grisham, Rick Bass, ...

Hill Street Press, 2002

Truly the best of the best
This collection of works--fiction, nonfiction, poetry, reportage--by the biggest names writing in or about the South is a real treasure. For those already familiar with "the New Yorker of the South" it will remind those what have made the magazine so special for so many years, and for those who have not discovered the magazine, BOA will be a great introduction to the best in Southern belles ...

Rabbit Novels Vol. 1

4 reviews
John Updike

Ballantine Books, 2003

The best edition for these novels
Twenty years from now, the Rabbit novels will be one of a host of books read in college gender studies classes to represent the postwar alteration of American marriage and family. It is rather amazing to read of cocktail-swilling couples seeing society dropouts appear on the scene, and then adopting some of the more selfish behaviors for their own. Also, the frank depictions of male-female ...

Hugging the Shore

4 reviews
John Updike

Penguin Putnam~trade, 1998

You'll read parts of it again and again. Superb!
From a brilliant essay on Melville to great book reviews to presenting the works of other writers (such as Yevtushenko), this volume is entertaining, enlightening, and wonderful.

Elephant House: Or, The Home of Edward Gorey

14 reviews

Pomegranate Communications, 2003

Inside Edward Gorey's house...
If you are an Ogdred Weary fan...this is a truly wonderful book. Photographs of the exterior (peeling paint and kind of saggy porch) and the interior rooms of the house on Cape Cod in Gorey lived and worked, along with his cats and figbashes, piles of thousands of books, assorted rocks and oddish things, and the expected miriad of curiosities. Alas, or delightfully...just the environment one ...

THE COMPLETE LYRICS OF COLE PORTER

3 reviews
Robert (ed.), Foreward by John Updike Kimball

Alfred A. Knopf, 1983

Excellent reference for any Cole Porter fan or researcher
A "must have" for any true Cole Porter fan or music researcher. This collection has the all the lyrics for Cole Porter's almost-1000 songs! Of particular note is an awesome "phrase index" for looking up common phrases and quotes in order to find what song a phrase is from. It also includes copyright information for every song for those who want to quote Cole for whatever reason.

Old Dogs Remembered

9 reviews
Eugene O'Neill, James Thurber, ...

Synergistic Publications, 1999

Who can forget?
Old Dogs Remembered is a wonderful collection that reflects on the joy of being owned by a dog and being the object of unquestioning devotion. While it is the collected remembrances and obituaries for famous people's dogs long past, it also focuses the reader on the dogs in our lives now. Our dogs pass away, but we have the power to make sure they are remembered. Take a minute to reflect on ...

Chip Kidd: Book One: Work: 1986-2006 (Chip Kidd)

8 reviews
Chip Kidd

Rizzoli, 2005

Why are you reading this itstead of buying the book?
This book is bound with a split hardback/softback cover, so if you appreciate design -- which I assume you do since you're considering a compilation of book designs -- the book is worth buying for this odd cover arrangement alone.

Self Consciousness

6 reviews
John Updike

Andre Deutsch Ltd, 1989

Wonderful evocation of formative years
John Updike is arguably, with Saul Bellow, the greatest of living authors writing in English. This volume exemplifies his strengths. His evocation of growing up in middle-America is often quite beautiful. Yet this book is not a memoir in the conventional sense of a chronological account, but more of series of scenes and reflections from a full and satisfying life. Updike's moving account of his ...

Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism

3 reviews
John Updike

Ballantine Books, 2008

The Master Speaks
The master speaks in this latest collection of what Updike calls his freelancing. What a pleasure to survey literature from his perspective. Beautiful language, fascinating views of technique in others' writings, and brilliant, poignant comments on so many times and places in the American experience. Like a modern day Hawthorne, or a latter day Edmund Wilson, we hear the master novelist review ...

The Fireside Book of Humorous Poetry

2 reviews
William Cole, Lewis Carroll, ...

Simon & Schuster, 1959

Funniest Thing I Ever Read!
More than 450 poems ranging from the 17th century to the present; emphasis on the present. Over a third of the poems have never before appeared in any anthology. This is the only big illustrated book of light verse, and the illustrations are delectable. Some are by the poets themselves; Lear, Bab Gilbert, Oliver Herford, G K Chesterton, Nicholas Bentley, and Walt Kelly. The Great masters are here ...

Brazil: A Novel (John Updike - Brazil: A Novel)

1 review

Fawcett International, 1994

Read it
One of the best and most thought-provoking books I've ever read. And I, frankly, read a lot, too much perhaps. If you're looking for something to make you pause and reflect for the pure marvel at it, this is the book for you.

Coffee with Hemingway (Coffee with...Series)

1 review
Kirk Curnutt

Duncan Baird, 2007

A strong and smart blend
I have been a life-long student of Ernest Hemingway's literature and books about his life and work. So I have to admit that I initially approached this latest offering about Papa with initial skepticism. Coffee with Hemingway? I am not sure that I ever thought about drinking coffee with Hemingway; anyway, it would not have been coffee. However, I soon was savoring the flavor of this book down to ...

A & P

2 reviews
John Updike

Redpath Press, 1986

great story
Excellent use of Sartre's existential ethic. Showed main character making a tough choice & choosing the one best suited to his own truths.

Another Life and The House on the Embankment (European Classics)

2 reviews
Yuri Trifonov

Northwestern University Press, 1999

Dom na Naberezhnoi (House on the Embankment)
The story "House on the Embankment" begins with a man, Glebov, who is middle aged, balding, fat, and seeking to buy some furniture. It is around 1970, in the Soviet Union. While looking for the furniture, he notices an worker who appears familiar to him. It turns out to be a former friend, Shulepa, from his childhood days, who ignores Glebov after the latter calls out to him. Now Glebov is an ...

John Updike's Rabbit Tetralogy: Mastered Irony in Motion

2 reviews
Marshall Boswell

University of Missouri Press, 2001

Impressive
It is really hard to overstate the importance of Marshall Boswell's critical achievement here. His goal is to explain Updike's literary vision in constructing the Rabbit tetralogy, "a dialectical vision" which he calls "an interdependent matrix of ethical precepts, theological beliefs, and aesthetic principles-less a creed than a versatile formal device; it is, in effect the scaffold on which ...

Brother Grasshopper (Limited Signed Edition)

1 review
John Updike

Metacom Pr, 1990

The Terwilliger sisters and their men
This is a hand bound and hand printed Limited Signed Edition of 150 by Metacom Press of Updime's short story, BROTHER GRASSHOPPER. It also appears as the third story in THE AFTERLIFE and OTHER STORIES published in 1994 by Alfred A. Knopf. In this masterful short story that is Mr. Updike's forte, Fred Emmet and Carlyle Saughterfield become almost like brothers during their courtship with the ...

The elements of John Updike

1 review
Alice Hamilton, Kenneth Hamilton

The Best (though dated) Book on Updike
The Elements of John Updike is the best study of John Updike's fiction that I have yet read. It is profound and very different from other studies in the depth and attention it pays the author and his writing. I have yet to read another book that so perfectly integrates all the diverse elements of his nature, the poetry, the fiction, the nonfiction, the studious nature and development of his ...

Is Sex Necessary?: Or Why You Feel the Way You Do

3 reviews
James Thurber, E. B. White

Harper Perennial, 2004

What a romp!
Thurber's and White's text satirizing the hullabaloo that our dearest lunatic, Mr. Sigmund Freud, began takes whatever cake is being handed out for satirical writing. It's universally funny, lucid, and did I mention funny? It's hilarious. One should pull out one's thesaurus at this point to find other such words, and all will be a propos. The book should have been a trilogy.

The World of William Steig

2 reviews
Lee Lorenz

Artisan, 1998

Introduction to Steig
This hefty chunk of book is a career spanning selection of cartoons and doodles from the bizarre pen of William Steig. Plenty of these illustrations and gag cartoons first appeared in the New Yorker. All of them are fantastic. Any individual page in this one should be enough to convince any sensible person that he is among the best of the New Yorker artists, his only competition is Saul ...

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