Archive for November, 2011
Rabbit Resumed, Bech Begun
When I was in college I read (instead of whatever I was supposed to be reading) the first two novels in John Updike’s Rabbit series, Rabbit, Run (1960) and Rabbit Redux (1971). One of my literature/writing professors, the estimable David Young, had reservations about those books; the prodigiously gifted Updike, he said, could describe a [...]
