Tag: John Updike
I Was Wrong About the Death of the Book
Fifteen years ago, in What Would Google Do?, I called for the book to be rethought and renovated, digital and connected, so that it could be updated and made searchable, conversational, collaborative, linkable, less expensive to produce, and cheaper to buy. The problem, I said, was that we so revered the book, it had become sacrosanct. “We need to get over books,” I wrote. “Only then can we reinvent them.”
I recant.
Umberto Eco was right when he said,
Diese Woche in Büchern: Ein Roman, der uns auffordert, auf uns selbst zu schauen
Dies ist eine Ausgabe des überarbeiteten Bücher-Briefing, Der wöchentliche Leitfaden unserer Redakteure zu den besten Büchern. Melden Sie sich hier dafür an.
Lydia Kieslings neuer Roman, Mobilitäthandelt von einer Frau, die ihr Leben damit verbringt, es zu versuchen nicht um zu sehen, welchen Schaden ihre Arbeit der Erde zufügt. Die Hauptfigur, Bunny Glenn, hat fast unwissentlich eine Karriere in der Ölindustrie begonnen. Und wie Amy Weiss-Meyer diese Woche in ihrem Aufsatz über das Buch schrieb, scheint Kieslings Porträt
‘Be Mine’ Shows the Trump Era Through Frank Bascombe’s Eyes
Half a century ago, at the 1974 Adelaide Festival of Arts, in South Australia, John Updike delivered a muscular manifesto: “We must write where we stand,” he said. “An imitation of the life we know, however narrow, is our only ground.” His call for accurate and specific witness, for a realism dedicated to the here and now, was surely in part an apology for the repeat appearances of Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, the former high-school-basketball star Updike called his “ticket to