in modern culture, we expect writers and film directors to take the spot philosophers and theologians occupied centuries ago. Too intellectually lazy to access our actual philosophers and theologians, we dictate that our writers be overt moralists, political theorists, social critics, even journalists. If they can write pretty, too, that's fine, but pretty without substance? No thanks.The mistake about Updike from the beginning was to imagine that there's an "either-or" in literature as inevitable as the one delineated in morals by Updike's much-admired Kierkegaard.
from Philadelphia Inquirer: John Updike: There was style, and more
also The New Republic: Requiem: John Updike's productivity and proficiency
also The Baltimore Sun: Master of details made readers feel what he felt
also New York: Three Pages a Day
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