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100 1 a| Updike, John.=| ^A16059;

240 10 a| Prose works.k| Selections=| ^A1099700;

245 10 a| Higher gossip :b| essays and criticism /c| John Updike ; edited by Christopher Carduff.;

260 a| New York :b| Alfred A. Knopf,c| 2011.;

300 a| xxiii, 501 pages :b| illustrations, facsimiles ;c| 25 cm;

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500 a| Includes index.;

500 a| "This is a Borzoi Book"--t.p. verso.;

520 a| A collection of the eloquent, insightful, and beautifully written prose works that Updike was compiling when he died in January 2009, this book opens with a self-portrait of the writer in winter--a Prospero who, though he fears his most dazzling performances are behind him, reveals himself in every sentence to be in deep conversation with the sources of his magic.;

505 0 a| Real Conversation -- The Writer in Winter -- A Desert Encounter -- Nessus at Noon -- The Football Factory -- The Beloved -- The Lens Factory -- Five Poems : Basium XVI ; Head of a Girl, at the Met ; Cafeteria, Mass. General Hospital ; An Hour Without Color ; Not Cancelled Yet -- Book Chat -- Humor in Fiction -- Lives and Laurels : Søren Kierkegaard ; F. Scott Fitzgerald ; Ernest Hemingway ; Kurt Vonnegut ; L. E. Sissman ; Raymond Carver -- Forewords and afterwords : The Haunted Major, by Robert Marshall ; The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, edited by Robert Kimball ; The Luzhin Defense, by Vladimir Nabokov ; The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike and Katrina Kenison -- Works and Days : The Changeling ; Back-Chat, Funny Cracks ; Imperishable Maxwell ; Basically Decent -- Fiction Now : Hugger-Mugger ; Classics Galore ; A Boston Fable ; Nan, American Man ; An Upstate Saga ; Relative Strangers ; Dreamy Wilderness -- Americana: Famous Aimee ; Laissez-faire is More ; Makeup and Make-Believe ; Sparky from St. Paul --;

505 0 a| Gallery Tours -- Old Masters : A Wistful Würzburger ; Singular in Everything ; More Light on Delft ; Plain and Simplified -- Romantics and Realists : "Therefore I Print" ; Innerlichkeit and Eigentümlichkeit ; Splendid Lies ; A Lean and Optical Dane ; Lear Far and Near ; The Artist as Trailblazer -- Van Gogh and Seurat : Uncertain Skills, Determined Spirit ; The Purest of Styles ; Pointillism in Black and White -- Secessionists and Surrealists : Can Genitals Be Beautiful? ; New Kind on the Block ; Beyond Real ; The Enduring Magritte ; Jean Ipoustéguy -- Photographers : Visual Trophies ; Aftermaths -- Pet Topics -- The Universe : The Valiant Swabian ; Visions of Mars ; Extreme Dinosaurs -- The Commonwealth : Harvard Square in the Fifties ; Ipswich in the Seventies ; Three Texts from Early Ipswich ; Lovell Thompson ; Open Spaces ; Memoirs of a Massachusetts Golfer -- The Game : In Love with a Wanton ; Playing with Better Players ; Walking Insomnia ; Lost Balls ; Being Senior --;

505 0 a| Table Talk -- The End of Authorship -- In Defense of the Amateur Reader -- A Poetics of Book Reviewing -- An American View of English Fiction -- Comment on "Poetry's Failure in the Marketplace" -- Foreword to the 1982 Edition of The Carpentered Hen -- Introduction to the 1977 Edition of The Poorhouse Fair -- From the Afterword to Buchanan Dying -- Reply to Paul Boyer's Appraisal of Memories of the Ford Administration -- Letter to Rosemary Herbert, Book Review Editor of the Boston Herald, Anent Gertrude and Claudius -- Introduction to Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels -- Foreword to The Early Stories: 1953-1975 -- Foreword to Too Far to Go: The Maples Stories -- Note on "The Indian" -- Note on Bech: His Oeuvre -- Replies to Three Questions About Licks of Love -- The Original Ending of Self-Consciousness -- On One's Own Style -- Letter Included as an Afterword to the introduction of Updike in Cincinnati -- The Courage of Ballplayers -- Post-Hubble Astronomy -- On "The American Idea" -- Commencement Address, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1993 -- Accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Conference on Christianity and Literature.;

600 10 a| Updike, John.=| ^A16059;

650 0 a| American essaysy| 20th century.=| ^A21047;

650 0 a| American essaysy| 21st century.=| ^A1037107;

650 0 a| American prose literaturey| 20th century.=| ^A33966;

650 0 a| American prose literaturey| 21st century.=| ^A15552;

650 0 a| Literature, Modernx| History and criticism.=| ^A1002108;

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Higher gossip : essays and criticism / John Updike ; edited by Christopher Carduff.

Author/creator	Updike, John
Other author	Carduff, Christopher.
Format	Book
Publication Info	New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2011.
Description	xxiii, 501 pages : illustrations, facsimiles ; 25 cm
Subjects	Updike, John. American essays--20th century. American essays--21st century. American prose literature--20th century. American prose literature--21st century. Literature, Modern--History and criticism.

Uniform title	Prose works. Selections
Contents	Real Conversation -- The Writer in Winter -- A Desert Encounter -- Nessus at Noon -- The Football Factory -- The Beloved -- The Lens Factory -- Five Poems : Basium XVI ; Head of a Girl, at the Met ; Cafeteria, Mass. General Hospital ; An Hour Without Color ; Not Cancelled Yet -- Book Chat -- Humor in Fiction -- Lives and Laurels : Søren Kierkegaard ; F. Scott Fitzgerald ; Ernest Hemingway ; Kurt Vonnegut ; L. E. Sissman ; Raymond Carver -- Forewords and afterwords : The Haunted Major, by Robert Marshall ; The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, edited by Robert Kimball ; The Luzhin Defense, by Vladimir Nabokov ; The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike and Katrina Kenison -- Works and Days : The Changeling ; Back-Chat, Funny Cracks ; Imperishable Maxwell ; Basically Decent -- Fiction Now : Hugger-Mugger ; Classics Galore ; A Boston Fable ; Nan, American Man ; An Upstate Saga ; Relative Strangers ; Dreamy Wilderness -- Americana: Famous Aimee ; Laissez-faire is More ; Makeup and Make-Believe ; Sparky from St. Paul --
Contents	Gallery Tours -- Old Masters : A Wistful Würzburger ; Singular in Everything ; More Light on Delft ; Plain and Simplified -- Romantics and Realists : "Therefore I Print" ; Innerlichkeit and Eigentümlichkeit ; Splendid Lies ; A Lean and Optical Dane ; Lear Far and Near ; The Artist as Trailblazer -- Van Gogh and Seurat : Uncertain Skills, Determined Spirit ; The Purest of Styles ; Pointillism in Black and White -- Secessionists and Surrealists : Can Genitals Be Beautiful? ; New Kind on the Block ; Beyond Real ; The Enduring Magritte ; Jean Ipoustéguy -- Photographers : Visual Trophies ; Aftermaths -- Pet Topics -- The Universe : The Valiant Swabian ; Visions of Mars ; Extreme Dinosaurs -- The Commonwealth : Harvard Square in the Fifties ; Ipswich in the Seventies ; Three Texts from Early Ipswich ; Lovell Thompson ; Open Spaces ; Memoirs of a Massachusetts Golfer -- The Game : In Love with a Wanton ; Playing with Better Players ; Walking Insomnia ; Lost Balls ; Being Senior --
Contents	Table Talk -- The End of Authorship -- In Defense of the Amateur Reader -- A Poetics of Book Reviewing -- An American View of English Fiction -- Comment on "Poetry's Failure in the Marketplace" -- Foreword to the 1982 Edition of The Carpentered Hen -- Introduction to the 1977 Edition of The Poorhouse Fair -- From the Afterword to Buchanan Dying -- Reply to Paul Boyer's Appraisal of Memories of the Ford Administration -- Letter to Rosemary Herbert, Book Review Editor of the Boston Herald, Anent Gertrude and Claudius -- Introduction to Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels -- Foreword to The Early Stories: 1953-1975 -- Foreword to Too Far to Go: The Maples Stories -- Note on "The Indian" -- Note on Bech: His Oeuvre -- Replies to Three Questions About Licks of Love -- The Original Ending of Self-Consciousness -- On One's Own Style -- Letter Included as an Afterword to the introduction of Updike in Cincinnati -- The Courage of Ballplayers -- Post-Hubble Astronomy -- On "The American Idea" -- Commencement Address, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1993 -- Accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Conference on Christianity and Literature.
Abstract	A collection of the eloquent, insightful, and beautifully written prose works that Updike was compiling when he died in January 2009, this book opens with a self-portrait of the writer in winter--a Prospero who, though he fears his most dazzling performances are behind him, reveals himself in every sentence to be in deep conversation with the sources of his magic.
General note	Includes index.
General note	"This is a Borzoi Book"--t.p. verso.
LCCN	2011013586
ISBN	9780307957153 (hbk.)
ISBN	0307957152 (hbk.)

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