Roxana Robinson Remembers John Updike
by Jane Ciabattari | Jan-29-2009
Novelist and National Book Critic Circle Award member Roxana Robinson remembers a postcard from John Updike (and a first meeting).
Updike remembered by Edmund White, Garrison Keillor, Jane Smiley, Oscar Hijuelos, and others here.
NBCC Balakian finalist Brooke Allen recalls the “high priest of sex and suburbia” here.
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