An Updike Round-Up

Lots of posts about John Updike are popping up at the moment, as you would expect. I thought I’d provide a link to a few of them that are truly worthwhile.

• Ed Champion’s interview with John Updike on Episode 50 of the Bat Segundo Show.

• The full text of Updike’s famous essay “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu,” about Ted Williams’ final game at Fenway Park.

• A link to the Google Books version of Conversations with Updike, in which he says “we are a death-foreseeing animal and animal of mental appetite…” (via @maudnewton on Twitter)

• The AP obituary, via the Los Angeles Times.

• Updike’s essay for the “This I Believe” series on NPR.

• Updike on Charlie Rose (second segment is Updike).

• Updike on dinosaurs for National Geographic. Weird. (via @sarahw on Twitter)

• An excellent, heartfelt memory of Updike, focusing on his essays, by Sam Anderson at NY Mag’s Vulture blog (which, by the way, is among the best designed blogs on the web).

I’ll update the post as more come in. Feel free to post your own in the comments or email them to me at pbrown@vromansbookstore.com.