Stories tagged with "John Updike"

ABC goes for big names, big laughs, big events by USA Today

ABC is banking on star-driven comedies and big-event dramas to bolster its lineup as its still-popular top dramas show signs of aging.A schedule to be unveiled to advertisers today... – May 19, 2009 at 12:18 AM in Entertainment

Our final measure of Updike in 'Endpoint and Other Poems' by USA Today

Novelist and critic John Updike also was a poet. His newly published final collection, Endpoint and Other Poems (Knopf, $25), was completed just weeks before his death Jan. 27 at... – Apr 13, 2009 at 8:18 PM in Entertainment

Post 9/11 novel 'Netherland' wins PEN/Faulkner prize by USA Today

NEW YORK (AP) — Joseph O'Neill's Netherland, an acclaimed post-Sept. 11, 2001, novel bypassed for the National Book Awards and the National Book Critics Circle prize, has... – Feb 26, 2009 at 12:46 AM in Entertainment

Updike Remembered by johnnyglucose

The current issue of the New Yorker is packed with tributes from editors he worked with and a selection of some of his best work that appeared in the magazine. www.newyorker.com – Feb 20, 2009 at 3:18 PM in Arts

John Updike, prize-winning writer, dead at age 76 by The Associated Press

NEW YORK (AP) -- For readers and writers of a certain generation, it's hard to imagine that they will have to grow old, or at least older, without John Updike."He's... – Jan 27, 2009 at 1:45 PM in Entertainment

Writing in sexcess most recent comment by JohnScott

Especially if it’s on a bathroom wall. – Dec 29, 2008 at 9:18 PM