Volume 55, Number 8 · May 15, 2008
'Something Marvellous to Tell'
By John Gross
Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism
by John Updike
Knopf, 703 pp., $40.00
Every eight or nine years over the past four decades John Updike has published a collection of reviews, essays, sketches, memoirs, and miscellaneous prose. These volumes are substantial affairs—some of them run to eight or nine hundred pages—and for most writers the work that has gone into them would represent a full-time job. For Updike, however, they are a sideline. The pieces they contain were written in intervals snatched from a career primarily devoted to fiction (more than twenty novels, a dozen collections of short stories), and one in which he has also found time for poetry (six volumes), art criticism, children's books, and more besides.
Review, 3697 words
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