USA: Writers; 3; John Updike

who is the leading said use to at be well ill ages eight law well on eighties disease uniquely writer for a second i didn't know what it was a stainless

steel so overly affectionate when i come in to my fingers and i knew and after an interval of years my grandmother was upon me again and it seemed incumbent upon a necessary and early to tell how once there had been a woman who mows know more how she had been born and lived in the world that had ceased to exist in that those were all about a thimble had been fashioned as if in a magical pill and the black mountain by workmen were a remoteness have vanished workshop now no larger the ideological clashes to be crushed out of shape our lives that i would do and then you work and that election i

was born in nineteen thirty two in shillington pennsylvania who graduated from harvard in nineteen fifty four for two years was a member of the staff of the new yorker his novel the centre are received the national book award for fiction in nineteen sixty four his other works include the novels the poorhouse very rapid run of the farm several collections of short stories two volumes of birds and a local charities and essays he lives in heaps which massachusetts nerd never been able to do much would that with this town over to now for nine years and oh it certainly should be part of my father maybe fear fear and shop and when did you decide to become a writer i always wanted to do

something that is a creative it seemed like a year one way to make a living there didn't necessarily and that pain on other people who are bringing something into the world and they're competing for what was already there and as for the seriousness i had just been one of the push her mother loses far as far as they would go hence the seriousness i guess i'm really a very serious level i hadn't thought of myself well but the writing is i think it's often kind of funny a lot of people coming at my lighting is the person was a girl writing thus far has been concerned with all americans only to how and when did you start writing that wasn't until i moved up here that again or ipo

only is there is so called or the name was given in a quite a small story about grades kills than in which the teacher of rebukes ago by singing out of baltimore join your knowing their pa and says i have trouble inventing names and how my than anything that sounds like an agreement to have a lot of stories in in not only where i came from a town called shelling probably is some connection as the wallowing there is i guess as a kind of state of mind having to do with the account is much of anything that is not of big know not really small of the other rumor going that's not him are there in a sense it's the it's a site of joy that is this little point of this mediocrity as a kind of blasted the condition one can only you can only decline for the dueling theories

represented kind of hard paradise but i'm thinking i'm over my head i realize that they are so the poem on how life even then our earlier stories really concerned growing up in that there is a great deal said american fiction about growing up in the present in some form of moral think the moral marlins one of the year the class is a fiction invented sounds think you and say about growing up because it implies that it's a good thing to do i venture to the vinegar the mess is that it's an inevitable thing that's done to an end so the stories in the order the hero gets the sadder in a way of the area they seem to be home the stories are about last i'd say more than more than game

vs the hero many faith came to enjoy it you know look to this time when everything was a little bigger than a little bit of their reality and somehow charged with a kind of consciousness the kind of kind of important cyber arms race among white with the people who are talked about themselves and each other over time so that there was generated in the house all the kind of running mythology i wish i've drawn upon that really no intention of mine at it but i've been the one witness little of that the charged their very hard lives really with a kind of drama suspense of a word bible reduce those pushing my grandfather and my mother and i well

there was something of a viewing their lives as a as an imploding book is a school that was being rolled out and canceling family and her significant returns for gods fingerprints for or adjust somehow was very exciting different things move us ally and i was affected reassuring the south hadley pleased even as a member of my animals use is made by the sight of bare and has been smooth but the passage of human feat such spot about that small break in the playground that thing that they're the truck of dust underneath each swing the blue have worn across the village of grass in none of those little mountain road by a polished play and strewn with pedals like the confetti after their wedding how to flu humanize

dribbles to humble income and even the heavily mined me of my childhood when one community with jarrett doubt among the legs as it were of presiding of the depression the earth is our playmate and the call the supper has appeared semi sweet eschatological rain without life you have nothing in and i don't think that the biochemistry of fiction platinum it's necessity to rely on the components rather rather than something more or anything out of listening for four voices and letting something take over a little bit this may

seem strange coming from me because i fear that my clothes gives the impression of having been thoroughly considered one of the least for me and that has somehow happens in parliament in a rush going once i start crying so many children that i should be in some way writing for the my i can't escape the impression of the many books that have my own i'm only a once aboard the most may well david i don't have the knack having children doesn't make you an expert on the midnight to draw my memories of childhood doesn't think domestic scene in particular barry more happens in the homeowner then is generally known

in the sense the american culture of a better word seems to be increasingly homesteader america be explored i think there's something quite intricate oh and fierce appears in homes and its with that truth as initial damage is only metamorphosis of people in conjunction bring about that with each other one family that's a place in dollars and maybe

letting go indoors kind of book lust for fresh air i have the impression that the american middle class is somehow more interesting than being given credit for that but as a kind of pain and again unsurprising surrounding the assumption that i do it was accused by critics and having enough to save him away at least don't have a slogan i go through with the most unassailable intuition about the changing or perhaps decaying middle class family

the point i lived for me at least as a kind of yes but quality is constantly hovering around the middle for every tuesday there's a push of a job for every year of knocking those adheres to capture and some kind of philosophy and this this well muddled sacred mediocrity of love life has been productive of of stories we probably they have been with us a long time they will outlast the elms our eyes but the eyes of the savage setting

the trees that stretch for being run through them they blend along small town streets like a race of giants that have faded into near the poverty our eyes washed clean of the lead lift incredulous to their fearsome crowns of boats trusses that's that's insulators and such article says compose these weather and crustaceans electrical debris beach gardens head which sees dry goods that mr steele you mentioned that there was a contrast of more alternatives in your novels rather grant in this and how would you explain a low frequency of service two sides of one call i'm climbing up libya by anne mclean morale and they felt were saying on this

day seven social laws which protects us from each other scientists it under some lipstick silver behind all the biblical injunction stand for specter of pain and there's been a sense nowadays like five fifty first name of the other crime rally is a response to aaron burr the atlanta thinks the interim have had fairly quick and invasive call world wars thirty five a lot of it was

like my favorite soloist and as they report in the infamous think that they can look for a finished nursing justin describing our badly the year the idea of conrad and sent her here that i am concerned about moral issues in a way i don't and her faith a lot of books the new virus more than achieving sympathetic

that it's very clear and i don't know on a last minute by the thing is the minute says because the area on land being pagans and i think his entire life and doing something i would think there's something quite invisible away a few ministers unknown i think they can they exist on the fanfare the frontier of real problems of the relations i'm not entirely convinced that'll have wondered in fiction without at least as we understand the wall sense not sending work very well isn't it rather adamantly way into the christian faith and that the christian faith acknowledges it and the fiction of the novels

and then do you is a twentieth century movie's in some way then copy and cupcake the idea both things that there are even lose the notion that that may be dispensable of navy or wrongness but to those of those search in which read something in the great grain and that i think composers took and says the kind of his view of the moon a ministerial angle religion is pasted on or or other shoe horned into books fights its way and i really of anything

you consider yourself a traditional mom of my i think this vote for a cry out well i'm much for iranian with their lives vision but no i have the us of days furlough lovell us and the new novel form is worn out in a way i think of the french premium none has slowed in theorizing about about the novel are arguing the correct then i think the thing that was so little there's so much journalistic travel a lot on this country it's a little unreal i thought about what's fiction can do in july somehow or don't quite

know how good the novels can be shaped differently act and sing are often shaped like florida like explosions and why they're like a mildly a stretch to the dilemma that all you have to have some feeling for the kind of article and produce and the pope is among other things a physical object and this should have a second i think the objective shape in the mind so that the only guarantee to members of the shape of the book says those as you say everyone was a kind of pattern of season this anti was a sort of a sandwich with a mythological unrealistic bubbles alternating bass but some unexpectedly that is this variations see there was a kind of an

axe a kind of a trade between a mother and son now whereby year the second why people the farms and the our position of either involved that involves some us some breakage another live for a slot was how i saw the book first now only a warehouse there was conceived of as a modeling attention would send would dissipate a kind of body ownership area falling into the filming of faith even in the head and in the bible with nozzles up a fireworks to be a better description of that shape my fear is that in the end this initial shake doesn't matter to anybody accept the offer a lot of things that it invokes because it enabled the

author to write them and the republicans are sort of the front of an impression a rack of paperbacks gateway grow and say no no i'm a crescent torch light chorus does nicely for us we'll eat well or accurately auden prize in case he is right ms caribbean's replied that lays best rides comic books harvest the region's santa brooks all including seven know jekyll may go no longer a vintage living arrangement your wisdom page on page of classics much to little known when books were being and binding stone agree moses had as herbert me the

patch attempt your absence a plan to link below leo the brand and henry james sell a better response than the us clearly how would you define good writing but i think that good writing million in long terms of honesty there are many many ways to write well and only one letter i badly winner of batteries to be dishonest and thats amazingly that there is so much that writing because it really it is a little harder to do than wright well i think a little more work to ride badly and was one extra step the step of being as honest i think that the bad writing is which one is that most of these is riding with a certain ways and there's a certain a certain loss aversion has taken place

that has ceased to see the thing they the person the feeling the action is said and and let the words take over the words other people wrote the words at once once we're like the greeks talk a good deal about the influence of one rider on another day you mentioned your liking for proust can you say how his writings have influenced or even a utility was i was impressed by andrews was the year when he took this thing further than i thought it could be taken that as he took certain kind of precision a certain kind of a floral thing and safer than i would have otherwise known was possible and it seemed to me that proust in this way penetrated more deeply into the nature of things the innovations of things and and their time on the musical

tone a lawyer anything under the nineteenth century so that my feeling apart from all the use of delight and awe and terror that it really gets it is one of seeing an actual technical lesson this is science i missed that must be grateful for for some new insights so you you hear that that something has been pushed over that has gone before as a professional writer you're obliged to turn out a suitable material to command inventions of where do you find that's an awkward position it is a little embarrassing to make a living by writing ads it's a bit like making it by sleeping on juggling or anything else with someone who i guess they're like who was a

real professional who lose as many as the inland folks here said that the misery of being a professional writers that writing meant to be a living in our whole way of making a living the hobby or intellectually the society especially affluent that it that it seems to want like lectures of all sorts is willing to support two perhaps you feel that there's only guilty about making a living at it because so many of the best players century writers did not make a living on and it may well be that a condition of really a good writing is that it doesn't smell since fighting which is an internal market means writing that is not breaking holding a ground oh these are all the discouraging thoughts especially from me who have managed to eke

out a living with no appetite for fiction is a little mysterious well what is it that made the caveman and transfer the storyteller oh oh what you need is a story satisfy why why do so many people who could use the time reading or playing golf of read there must be some kind of a very deep deep human cure curie acidly that that makes a solemn the

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