John Updike's Pennsylvania Interviews (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Plath, James

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Updike remains both a critical and popular success; however, because Updike asked that his personal letters not be published the only way that Updike scholars and fans can read more of the author's candid and insightful remarks is to revisit some of the many interviews he granted-most of which are difficult to locate or obtain. Updike wrote about his home town of Reading in Berks County, Pennsylvania for much of his adult life, setting most of his early fiction and all of his award-winning novels in his home state. In John Updike's Pennsylvania Interviews, James Plath has compiled the first collection of interviews that illustrates and helps to explain the bond between one of America's greatest literary talents and his beloved Pennsylvania. Included in this volume are interviews and articles by Mark Abrams, Leonard W. Boasberg, Carl W. Brown, Jr., David Cheshire, Marty Crisp, Sean Diviny, John Mark Eberhart, William Ecenbarger, Elizabeth Greenwood, Ruth Heimbuecher, Dorothy Lehman Hoerr, Jim Homan, Tom Knapp, Karen L. Miller, Steve Neal, Richard E. Nicholls, Sanford Pinsker, James Plath, Bruce Posten, Carole Reber, Pamela Rohland, Carlin Romano, Daniel Rubin, Stephan Salisbury, Charles R. Shaw, Ellen Sulkis, Heather Thomas, Stanley J. Watkins, Michael L. Wentzel, and Robert F. Zissa.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 294
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. August 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781611465518
• Artikelnr.: 74831739

Autorenporträt

James Plath is R. Forrest Colwell Chair and professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction: John Updike and Pennsylvania by James Plath
1) "Berks County Game: Find Yourself in John Updike's Books": An article
for The Sunday Bulletin Magazine by Ellen Sulkis (1965)
2) "Updike Visits School": An article for Reading Times by Michael L.
Wentzel (1968)
3) "John Updike Reminiscences in 'Olinger'": An article for Reading Eagle
by Stanley J. Watkins (1968)
4) "Rabbit, Run Author Blending of Parents, says Eagle Writer after Meeting
Updikes": An article for Reading Eagle by Carole Reber (1969)
5) "Updike, Impish Poet, Admits Playful Verse":An article for Pittsburgh
Press by Ruth Heimbuecher (1969)
6) "Updike Talks of His Work, and Film": An article for Reading Eagle by
Elizabeth Greenwood (1970)
7) "Buchanan's Obscurity Inspired Updike Play": An article for
Intelligencer Journal by Charles R. Shaw (1974)
8) "Updike: "Final Homage" Paid to His State": An article for
ThePhiladelphia Inquirer by Steve Neal (1974)
9) "Updike Discusses Reading": An article for Reading Eagle by Robert F.
Zissa (1977)
10) "Is Updike up to His Literary Tricks?": An article for Reading Eagle by
Heather Thomas (1980)
11) "John Updike: A Small-Town Boy Who Tried to Make the Most of What He
Had": As heard on The Listener; writtenby David Cheshire (1982)
12) "Updike at Moravian College": A Public Q&A (1982)
13) " 'Rabbit' Evolves": An article for the The Comenian by Sean Diviny
(1982)
14) "Distinguished Artist: Another Honor Is Bestowed on Updike": A Reading
Times editorial (1983)
15) "Profiles in Excellence: John Updike": A WPSU-TV Penn State University
video segment (1983)
16) "Updike Is Home":An article for The Inquirer Sunday Magazine by William
Ecenbarger (1983)
17) "For TV, Updike Returns to His Roots in Pennsylvania": An article for
ThePhiladelphia Inquirer byRichard E. Nicholls (1983)
18) "A Look into the Work and World of Updike": An article for The
Philadelphia Inquirer byLeonard W. Boasberg (1984)
19) "Updike Mixes Sex, God and Technology": An article for ThePhiladelphia
Inquirer byStephan Salisbury (1986)
20) "Fresh Air with Terry Gross: John Updike (S.)": As heard on Fresh Air
with Terry Gross (1988)
21) "Fresh Air with Terry Gross: John Updike (Self-Consciousness)": As
heard on Fresh Air with Terry Gross (1988)
22) "Updike Remembered": An article for Reading Eagle Times by Pamela
Rohland (1989)
23) "Updike Pays 'Debt' to Library with a Special Group of Books": An
article for Reading Times by Mark Abrams (1989)
24) "John Updike, Traveling Wordsmith": An article for The Philadelphia
Inquirer by Daniel Rubin (1989)
25) "Updike Reflects on 'Shillington Thoughts'": An article for the Reading
Eagle by Karen L. Miller (1989)
26) "Fresh Air with Terry Gross: John Updike (Rabbit at Rest"): As heard on
Fresh Air with Terry Gross (1990)
27) "A Writing Mother and Son": A Public Q&A (1991)
28) "Updike Pays Homage to Mom": An article for Reading Eagle Times by Carl
W. Brown, Jr. (1991)
29) "Fresh Air with Terry Gross: John Updike (Memories of the Ford
Administration)": As heard on Fresh Air with Terry Gross (1992)
30) "Fresh Air with Terry Gross: John Updike (Brazil)": As heard on Fresh
Air with Terry Gross (1994)
31) "Defrocking the Muse": An article for Sunday News by Marty Crisp (1996)
32) "The Art of Fiction: A Conversation with John Updike" An article for
The Sewanee Review by Sanford Pinsker (1996)
33) "Updike Visits Memory Lane; Famed Author Reads for Packed House at
F&M": An article for Intelligencer Journal by Tom Knapp (1996)
34) "Fresh Air with Terry Gross: John Updike (In the Beauty of the
Lilies)": As heard on Fresh Air with Terry Gross (1996)
35) "Fresh Air with Terry Gross: John Updike (Toward the End of Time)": As
heard on Fresh Air with Terry Gross (1997)
36) "Fresh Air with Terry Gross: John Updike (Just Looking)": As heard on
Fresh Air with Terry Gross (1998)
37) "Fresh Air with Terry Gross: John Updike (Bech at Bay)": As heard on
Fresh Air with Terry Gross (1998)
38) "Prize Winner Tours Boyhood Home": An article for the Reading Times by
Jim Homan (1999)
39) "Updike Returns to the Nest": An article for Reading Eagle by Elizabeth
Greenwood (2000)
40)"'Rabbit'" in Retrospect: An article for Reading Eagle by John Mark
Eberhart (2004)
41) "In the Limelight: Shillington Native, World-Renown Author John
Updike": An article for Berks County Living by Dorothy Lehman Hoerr (2004)
42) "An Attendee's Report on Updike's Appearance at Montgomery County
Community College on November 5": An article for The Centaurian by Dorothy
Lehman Hoerr (2004)
43) "The Playful Literary Legend": An article for The Philadelphia Inquirer
by Carlin Romano (2007)
44) "Will the Real 'Rabbit' Angstrom Please Stand Up?": An article for
Reading Eagle by Bruce Posten (2009)
Conclusion: Updike and the Pennsylvania "Essence" by James Plath
Bibliography
Index
About the Author