Contributor
Plath, James, editor.
ImprintBethlehem [Pennsylvania] : Lehigh University Press ; Lanham, Maryland : Copublished by The Rowman & Littlefield Publishing Group, Inc., [2016]
Descriptionxxv, 265 pages ; 24 cm
Note:Collection of previously published interviews from 1965-2009.
Note:Includes some primary source material.
Note:Introduction: John Updike and Pennsylvania -- "Berks County game: find yourself in John Updike's books": an article for the Sunday Bulletin Magazine / Ellen Sulkis (1965) -- "Updike visits school": an article for Reading Times / Michael L. Wentzel (1968) -- "John Updike reminiscences in 'Olinger'": an article for Reading Eagle / Stanley J. Watkins (1968) -- "Rabbit, run author blending of parents, says Eagle writer after meeting Updikes": an article for Reading Eagle / Carole Reber (1969) -- "Updike, impish poet, admits playful verse": an article for Pittsburgh Press / Ruth Heimbuecher (1969) -- "Updike talks of his work, and film": an article for Reading Eagle / Elizabeth Greenwood (1970)-- "Buchanan's obscurity inspired Updike play": an article for Intelligencer Journal / Charles R. Shaw (1974) -- "Updike: "Final Homage" paid to his state": an article for the Philadelphia Inquirer / Steve Neal (1974) -- "Updike discusses Reading": an article for Reading Eagle / Robert F. Zissa (1977) -- "Is updike up to his literary tricks?": an article for Reading Eagle / Heather Thomas (1980) -- "John Updike: a small-town boy who tried to make the most of what he had": as heard on the Listener / David Cheshire (1982) -- "Updike at Moravian College": a public Q&A (1982) -- "'Rabbit' evolves": an article for the Comenian / Sean Diviny (1982) -- "Distinguished artist: another honor is bestowed on Updike": a Reading Times editorial (1983) --"Profiles in excellence: John Updike": a WPSU-TV Penn State University video segment (1983) -- "Updike is home": an article for the Inquirer Sunday Magazine / William Ecenbarger (1983) -- "For TV, Updike returns to his roots in Pennsylvania": an article for the Philadelphia Inquirer / Richard E. Nicholls (1983) -- "A look into the work and world of Updike": an article for the Philadelphia Inquirer / Leanard W. Boasberg (1984) -- "Updike mixes sex, God and technology": an article for the Philadelphia Inquirer / Stephan Salisbury ()1986) -- "Fresh air with Terry Gross: John Updike (S.)": as heard on Fresh Air with Terry Gross (1988) -- "Fresh air with Terry Gross: John Updike (Self-consciousness)": as heard on Fresh Air with Terry Gross (1988) -- "Updike remembered": an article for Reading Eagle Times / Pamela Rohland (1989) -- "Updike pays 'debt' to library witha special group of books": an article for Reading Times / Mark Abrams (1989) -- "John Updike, traveling wordsmith": an article for Philadelphia Inquirer / Daniel Rubin (1989) -- "Updike reflects on 'Shillington thoughts'": an article for Reading Eagle / Karen L. Miller (1989) -- "Fresh air with Terry Gross: John Updike (Rabbit at rest)": as heard on Fresh air with Terry Gross (1990) -- "A writing mother and son": a public Q&A (1991) -- "Updike pays homage to mom": an article for Reading Times / Carl W. Brown, Jr. (1991) -- "Fresh air with Terry Gross: John Updike (Memories of the Ford administration)": as heard on Fresh air with Terry Gross (1992) -- "Fresh air with Terry Gross: John Updike (Brazil)": as heard on Fresh air with Terry Gross (1994) -- "Defrocking the muse": an article for Sunday News / Marty Crisp (1996) -- "The art of fiction: a conversation with John Updike": an article for the Sewanee Review / Sanford Pinsker (1996) -- "Updike visits memory lane; famed aurthor reads for packed house at F&M": an article for Intelligencer Journal / Tom Knapp (1996) -- "Fresh air with Terry Gross: John Updike (In the beauty of the lilies)": as heard on Fresh air with Terry Gross (1996) -- "Fresh air with Terry Gross: John Updike (Toward the end of time)": as heard on Fresh air with Terry Gross (1997) -- "Fresh air with Terry Gross: John Updike (Just looking)": as heard on Fresh air with Terry Gross (1998) -- "Fresh air with Terry Gross: John Updike (Bech at bay)": as heard on Fresh air with Terry Gross (1998) -- "Prize winner tours boyhood home": an article for Reading Times / Jim Homan (1999) -- "Updike returns to the nest": an article for Reading Eagle / Elizabeth Greenwood (2000) -- "'Rabbit'" in retrospect: an article for Reading Eagle / John Mark Eberhart (2004)-- "In the limelight: Shillington native, world-renown author John Updike": an article for Berks County Living / Dorothy Lehman Hoerr (2004) -- "An attendee's report on Updike's appearance at Montgomery County Community College on November 5": an article for the Centaurian / Dorothy Lehman Hoerr (2004) -- "The playful literary legend": an article for the Philadelphia Inquirer / Carlin Romano (2007) -- "Will the real 'Rabbit' Angstrom please stand up?": an article for Reading Eagle / Bruce Posten (2009) -- Conclusion: Updike and the Pennsylvania "essence".
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 253-257) and index.
Note:"John Updike wrote about his home town of Shillington in Berks County, Pennsylvania for much of his adult life, setting most of his early fiction and all of his award-winning novels in his home state. In John Updike's Pennsylvania Interviews, James Plath has compiled the first collection of interviews that illustrates and helps to explain the bond between one of America's greatest literary talents and his beloved Pennsylvania. Includes an original introduction by James Plath."-- Provided by publisher.
