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            <title><![CDATA[Remembering John Updike]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[When John Updike died of lung cancer on Tuesday, at age 76, he left behind a trunk of novels, stories, articles, reviews, poems. Where to begin celebrating the legacy of a giant, and giant producer, of American literature? Well, Updike was a man of cer]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bring Back Literary Sex Scenes]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Are today's male novelists "too cool for sex"? In an essay in The New York Times, Katie Roiphe makes the case for appreciation of novelists like John Updike and Philip Roth, who pioneered explicit sex scenes in their novels, as compared to their...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Updike's Stellar Final Works]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[John Updike's passing meant the loss of one of America's literary giants. Now, two new collections of his poetry and short stories will likely be (barring the discovery of hidden manuscripts) the final books of new material from the author. Writing for...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Exit the Critic]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[From the Seattle Post-Intelligencer's final print edition, veteran book critic John Marshall reflects on more than ten years on the job. His strangest moment? Watching The Liar's Club author Mary Karr pack for a trip. "No other author folded tiny...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Updike's Poetic Farewell]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[On a rainy Sunday, James Wolcott grabbed the New Yorker's March 16 Style Issue and walked into Straus Park. He observes that upon reading John Updike's poem, Endpoint, about battling lung cancer and approaching death, "everything else in the issue...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Two Takes on Cheever]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Perhaps it's fitting that John Updike's final review for the New Yorker is a review of a book about an old friend. Updike takes us through the highlights of Blake Bailey's new John Cheever biography, Cheever: A Life, which is thorough, but adheres to a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[McEwan Remembers Updike]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[John Updike was a quintessentially American author, but readers should note some of the better tributes have come from across the pond. "This most Lutheran of writers, driven by intellectual curiosity all his life, was troubled by science as others are...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Newly Relevant: The Early Stories: 1953 - 1975]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[John Updike published his first story in The New Yorker in 1954 when he was 22. Over the next 55 years, until his death last week, he published more words than perhaps any other major novelist in America. But many believe that his early New Yorker...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Authors are popping up across the internet to tip their hats at John Updike, who passed away yesterday afternoon. At Vanity Fair, James Wolcott writes that, when he last heard Updike a few months ago, "he sounded hale, chipper, as pinpoint articulate...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Updike's&nbsp;'Perfection Wasted']]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[As tributes to John Updike begin rolling in, perhaps it's best to remember the author by some lines from a poem he wrote himself, "Perfection Wasted": "And another regrettable thing about death/is the ceasing of your own brand of magic/which took a...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[John Updike Dies]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Two-time Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist John Updike, who penned over 50 books beginning in the 1950s, died today at the age of 76. "A literary writer who frequently appeared on best seller lists, the tall, hawk-nosed Updike wrote novels, short...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Bad Sex in Fiction Award]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The news of the Bad Sex in Fiction awards has already made the rounds, but this news just caught our attention: The winner is London Mayor Boris Johnson's sister. Rachel Johnson beat heavyweights like John Updike and Paul Coehlo and said she was...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Updike Still Has It]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[John Updike is still cleaning up the tomatoes hurled at his last outing, Terrorist, so he must feel pretty good about a rave for his latest novel, The Widows of Eastwick, in the Times Book Review. "The genius inheres in the precise observation," Sam...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Worst Sex Writing of the Year]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Olivia Cole reports from the annual Bad Sex in Fiction Awards, where nominees Philip Roth, Amoz Oz, Nick Cave, and others had their erotic passages read aloud, much to their humiliation.
Sometime nominee Ian McEwan, one of Britain's greatest...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Nobel's Writing Laureates]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Israeli novelist Amos Oz may have been the frontrunner, but this year's Nobel Prize for literature went to Romanian-born German writer Herta M&uuml;ller. According to the press release Thursday morning, M&uuml;ller won because "with the concentration...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[The 9/11 Novels Worth Reading]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Eight years on, which of the many works about the terrorist attacks are most likely to stand the test of time? The Daily Beast finds three novels that are up to the task-and only one was written by an American.
The shelf holding novels about Sept. 11...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Samuel P. Jacobs]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[Best Moments from the Updike Tribute]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The great writer's friends, family, and colleagues convened this week at the New York Public Library to pay tribute. The Daily Beast presents the highlights from the speakers.
John Updike, who died in January at age 76, was "a writer of many worlds,"...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Exit the Critic]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Plus: Check out Book Beast, for more news on hot titles and authors and excerpts from the latest books.
  The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's erstwhile book critic recalls his years covering our most literate city-including the question he dared ask...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[John Douglas Marshall]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[A Legendary Reporter Exposes His Favorite Reads]]></title>
            <link><![CDATA[http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2009-03-17/a-legendary-reporter-exposes-his-favorite-reads/]]></link>
            <description><![CDATA[Plus: Check out Book Beast, for more news on hot titles and authors and excerpts from the latest books.
Carl Bernstein reveals five of his favorite books-from a memoir that transports him back to his days as a young copy boy to a neglected biography...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Carl Bernstein]]></author>
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            <title><![CDATA[The Literary Gentleman]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[In the course of an amazing career, John Updike somehow found time to answer letters, grant gracious interviews, and write for everything from The New Yorker to Popular Mechanics.
The United States may have expanded on November 4 with the election of...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[My Conversation with John Updike]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[The late Pulitzer Prize-winning author talks about Harvard, the wars, his writings, religion, Nixon and politics.
On a cool summer afternoon in Boston, John Updike and I met at the Ritz; it had been my idea to meet there.  I had flown up from New York...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[John Updike's Final Chapter]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Whether he was writing about sex, golf, or life in a small town, the fecund mind who gave the world Rabbit was never at rest. But why did readers seem to fall out of love with America's everyman of letters?
Of few writers can it be said that they...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[  Olivia Cole reports from the annual Bad Sex in Fiction Awards, where nominees Philip Roth, Amoz Oz, Nick Cave, and others had their erotic passages read aloud, much to their humiliation.
Sometime nominee Ian McEwan, one of Britain's greatest...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Israeli novelist Amos Oz may have been the frontrunner, but this year's Nobel Prize for literature went to Romanian-born German writer Herta M&uuml;ller. According to the press release Thursday morning, M&uuml;ller won because "with the concentration...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[Eight years on, which of the many works about the terrorist attacks are most likely to stand the test of time? The Daily Beast finds three novels that are up to the task-and only one was written by an American.
The shelf holding novels about Sept. 11...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[Samuel P. Jacobs]]></author>
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            <description><![CDATA[ The great writer's friends, family, and colleagues convened this week at the New York Public Library to pay tribute. The Daily Beast presents the highlights from the speakers.
John Updike, who died in January at age 76, was "a writer of many worlds,"...]]></description>
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            <title><![CDATA[Exit the Critic]]></title>
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            <description><![CDATA[Plus: Check out Book Beast, for more news on hot titles and authors and excerpts from the latest books.
  The Seattle Post-Intelligencer's erstwhile book critic recalls his years covering our most literate city-including the question he dared ask...]]></description>
            <author><![CDATA[John Douglas Marshall]]></author>
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            <description><![CDATA[Plus: Check out Book Beast, for more news on hot titles and authors and excerpts from the latest books.
Carl Bernstein reveals five of his favorite books-from a memoir that transports him back to his days as a young copy boy to a neglected biography...]]></description>
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The United States may have expanded on November 4 with the election of...]]></description>
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Of few writers can it be said that they...]]></description>
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            <description><![CDATA[In John Updike's final review for The New Yorker on John Cheever, we learned what he thought of his biography. But when the two Johns met on the Dave Cavett Show in 1981, Updike talks about Cheever himself.]]></description>
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