John Updike's Pennsylvania Interviews (eBook)

James Plath is R. Forrest Colwell Chair and professor of English at Illinois Wesleyan University.

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: John Updike and Pennsylvania by James Plath1) “Berks County Game: Find Yourself in John Updike’s Books”: An article for The Sunday Bulletin Magazine by Ellen Sulkis (1965)2) “Updike Visits School”: An article for Reading Times by Michael L. Wentzel (1968)3) “John Updike Reminiscences in ‘Olinger’”: An article for Reading Eagle by Stanley J. Watkins (1968)4) “Rabbit, Run Author Blending of Parents, says Eagle Writer after Meeting Updikes”: An article for Reading Eagle by Carole Reber (1969)5) “Updike, Impish Poet, Admits Playful Verse”: An article for Pittsburgh Press by Ruth Heimbuecher (1969)6) “Updike Talks of His Work, and Film”: An article for Reading Eagle by Elizabeth Greenwood (1970)7) “Buchanan’s Obscurity Inspired Updike Play”: An article for Intelligencer Journal by Charles R. Shaw (1974)8) “Updike: “Final Homage” Paid to His State”: An article for ThePhiladelphia Inquirer by Steve Neal (1974)9) “Updike Discusses Reading”: An article for Reading Eagle by Robert F. Zissa (1977)10) “Is Updike up to His Literary Tricks?”: An article for Reading Eagle by Heather Thomas (1980)11) “John Updike: A Small-Town Boy Who Tried to Make the Most of What He Had”: As heard on The Listener; written by David Cheshire (1982) 12) “Updike at Moravian College”: A Public Q&A (1982)13) “ ‘Rabbit’ Evolves”: An article for the The Comenian by Sean Diviny (1982)14) “Distinguished Artist: Another Honor Is Bestowed on Updike”: A Reading Times editorial (1983)15) “Profiles in Excellence: John Updike”: A WPSU-TV Penn State University video segment (1983)16) “Updike Is Home”: An article for The Inquirer Sunday Magazine by William Ecenbarger (1983)17) “For TV, Updike Returns to His Roots in Pennsylvania”: An article for ThePhiladelphia Inquirer by Richard E. Nicholls (1983)18) “A Look into the Work and World of Updike”: An article for The Philadelphia Inquirer by Leonard W. Boasberg (1984)19) “Updike Mixes Sex, God and Technology”: An article for ThePhiladelphia Inquirer by Stephan Salisbury (1986)20) “Fresh Air with Terry Gross: John Updike (S.)”: As heard on Fresh Air with Terry Gross (1988)21) “Fresh Air with Terry Gross: John Updike (Self-Consciousness)”: As heard on Fresh Air with Terry Gross (1988)22) “Updike Remembered”: An article for Reading Eagle Times by Pamela Rohland (1989)23) “Updike Pays ‘Debt’ to Library with a Special Group of Books”: An article for Reading Times by Mark Abrams (1989)24) “John Updike, Traveling Wordsmith”: An article for The Philadelphia Inquirer by Daniel Rubin (1989)25) “Updike Reflects on ‘Shillington Thoughts’”: An article for the Reading Eagle by Karen L. Miller (1989)26) “Fresh Air with Terry Gross: John Updike (Rabbit at Rest”): As heard on Fresh Air with Terry Gross (1990)27) “A Writing Mother and Son”: A Public Q&A (1991)28) “Updike Pays Homage to Mom”: An article for Reading Eagle Times by Carl W. Brown, Jr. (1991)29) “Fresh Air with Terry Gross: John Updike (Memories of the Ford Administration)”: As heard on Fresh Air with Terry Gross (1992)30) “Fresh Air with Terry Gross: John Updike (Brazil)”: As heard on Fresh Air with Terry Gross (1994)31) “Defrocking the Muse”: An article for Sunday News by Marty Crisp (1996)32) “The Art of Fiction: A Conversation with John Updike” An article for The Sewanee Review by Sanford Pinsker (1996)33) “Updike Visits Memory Lane; Famed Author Reads for Packed House at F&M”: An article for Intelligencer Journal by Tom Knapp (1996)34) “Fresh Air with Terry Gross: John Updike (In the Beauty of the Lilies)”: As heard on Fresh Air with Terry Gross (1996)35) “Fresh Air with Terry Gross: John Updike (Toward the End of Time)”: As heard on Fresh Air with Terry Gross (1997)36) “Fresh Air with Terry Gross: John Updike (Just Looking)”: As heard on Fresh Air with Terry Gross (1998)37) “Fresh Air with Terry Gross: John Updike (Bech at Bay)”: As heard on Fresh Air with Terry Gross (1998)38) “Prize Winner Tours Boyhood Home”: An article for the Reading Times by Jim Homan (1999)39) “Updike Returns to the Nest”: An article for Reading Eagle by Elizabeth Greenwood (2000)40)“‘Rabbit’” in Retrospect: An article for Reading Eagle by John Mark Eberhart (2004)41) “In the Limelight: Shillington Native, World-Renown Author John Updike”: An article for Berks County Living by Dorothy Lehman Hoerr (2004)42) “An Attendee’s Report on Updike’s Appearance at Montgomery County Community College on November 5”: An article for The Centaurian by Dorothy Lehman Hoerr (2004)43) “The Playful Literary Legend”: An article for The Philadelphia Inquirer by Carlin Romano (2007)44) “Will the Real ‘Rabbit’ Angstrom Please Stand Up?”: An article for Reading Eagle by Bruce Posten (2009)Conclusion: Updike and the Pennsylvania “Essence” by James Plath BibliographyIndexAbout the Author