Depardieu is on trial, and so is France. It’s a cultural reckoning in an era of #MeToo https://www.byteseu.com/866993/ #AdeleHaenel #AlainMorel #AmberHeard #AnoukGrinberg #CannesFilmFestival #CatherineDeneuve #celebrity #EmmanuelMacron #Entertainment #France #GeneralNews #GrardDepardieu #Indictments #JeanDujardin #JohnUpdike #JohnnyDepp #JudithGodreche #MeToo #movies #NicolasBedos #RomanPolanski #SexualAssault #VladimirPutin #Women'sRights #WorldNews #YasmineBensalem
It seems to me the book has not just aesthetic values -- the charming little clothy box of the thing, the smell of the glue, even the print, which has its own beauty. But there's something about the sensation of ink on paper that is in some sense a thing, a phenomenon rather than an epiphenomenon. I can't break the association of electric trash with the computer screen. Words on the screen give the sense of being just another passing electronic wriggle.
-- John Updike
[The New Yorker Archive]: A Nation of Eyewitnesses to J.F.K.’s Assassination
How it feels—and what it means—to watch a President slain on TV. By John Updike November 29, 1963
“None of our country’s four slain Presidents were victims of any distinct idea of opposition or hope of gain; they were sacrificed, rather, to the blind tides of criminality and insanity that make civilization precarious. [..]
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1963/12/07/john-updike-jfk-assassination-comment
#Quotes #Sanity #Society #JohnUpdike
A THOUGHT FOR TODAY:
We take our bearings, daily, from others. To be sane is, to a great extent, to be sociable. -John Updike, writer (18 Mar 1932-2009)
Reading some essays by #JohnUpdike on #art came across this great painting by John Sloan (one of the Ashcan school of American #artists) of his wife putting out the washing on a Sunday... somehow captures the tenement living of early C20th #NewYork concisely....
People and books that helped form who I am today:
#GrahamGreene
#JohnUpdike
#WalkerPercy
#kurtvonnegutjr
#JohnIrving
#RalphEllison
#HermannHesse
#LorenEiseley
#JamesBaldwin
#JohnSteinbeck
#RayBradbury
#FrankHerbert
#StrangerInAStrangeLand
#MalcomX
#KimStanleyRobinson
#JulianJaynes
#SomeTimesAGreatNotion
#WendellBerry
#WhatArePeopleFor
#EdwardAbbey
#DesertSolitaire
#TomRussell
#CarlHiaasen
#MichaelPollan
#BotanyOfDesire
#PattiSmith
#MichaelStipe
#DavidSedaris
#CormacMcCarthy
27. Januar 2007: #HeuteVor 𝟏𝟒 Jahren erlag in Danvers 
der US-amerikanische Schriftsteller #JohnUpdike im Alter von 76 Jahren dem Lungenkrebs. Berühmt wurde Updike mit #Hasenherz, dem ersten Band seiner Rabbit-Serie. Die Lebensgeschichte des Protagonisten Harry „Rabbit“ Angstrom hat mich in den Siebzigerjahren zur Leseratte gemacht. Ich war hin und weg. Es gibt auch eine Buchbesprechung zum letzten Band, in der auch die Vorgeschichte aufgerollt wird:
https://e-script.de/2003/rabbit-eine-rueckkehr/ 
So, having finished a book 3 days ago, now I finished another one 
... "Easy #Prey" (2000), by #JohnSandford.
Probably the most fun I've had so far with the series and liked that it was a #thriller where we don't know #whodunnit, as opposed to the others I've read in the series. The humor was also on point for this one, and #LucasDavenport got some character development.
Now the question is: do I follow that with #LorrieMoore or #JohnUpdike?
From a meme suggested by . . .
my five favorite authors:
#virginiawoolf
#maylisdekerangel
#wilfridsheed
#colsonwhitehead
#johnupdike (stories and essays)
