Adieu John Updike died on Tuesday, leaving behind some of American literature's greatest fiction, essays, poetry, and literary criticism. In all of his works, most often picked and rarely panned, we heard the sturdy beat of our American pulse. Reading Updike was like being spied on; he seemed to know us, through and through.
Read or re-read anything Updike as a tribute. Better yet, let’s be confident that twenty, sixty, one-hundred years from now, all too many will still be searching for a way to bid their adieus to John Updike.
