Rabbit At Jest
[Hollywood, May 26. Image via Getty]
R.I.P. John Updike
John Updike, the prolific, Pulitzer-winning writer, has died at 76. The cause was lung cancer.
Rabbits, Witches, Updike, Bitches
Hi all! I was a little burned out—100K words' worth burned, let's say—on YA for a Fine Lines, and my Shelf Pleasuring transmuted itself into a work on the sequel without my doing. But no matter! There is still much more YA to be had. To be updated on the book and to see the cover, you can subscribe to the mailing list
John Updike has written a
sequel to the Witches of Eastwick, the , both of which are written from the perspective of three women, whom 's Emily Nussbaum describes as "a coven of divorced mothers in a small New England town." Nussbaum is disappointed with , as she finds it unsympathetically misogynistic. "Updike’s awed…
Is There Anything More Painful Than Watching A Dude "Mancrush" On Another Dude?
Next month's Vanity Fair's examines the horror wreaked by the "man crush" upon our civilization in recent years: apparently Karl Rove formed a Man Crush on George W. Bush, who in turn nursed a mutual man crush on Tony Blair. Less disastrously, Nicolson Baker had a hardon for Updike. Every male member of the Washington…
