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Tag Archives: John Sutherland
updike:surprising the dawn cottonfields
…In John Updike’s Rabbit Run, a former high school basketball star comes home to find his pregnant wife drunk before the television set; the living room is littered with toys, his wife is out for cigarettes, the car has been … Continue reading
updike: slow accretions of random detail
If J.D. Salinger reflected what the young would like to be, John Updike told us what people actually were…. Updike claimed he did this all by accident. Updike believed that “a writer’s business is not to write about his own … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word
Tagged art blog, Ernest Hemingway, James Joyce, John Hoyer Updike, John Lyon, John Mullan, John Sutherland, John Updike, John Updike Henry Bech, Lev Grossman, Madame Pickwick, madame pickwick art blog, Orville Prescott
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updike: small appliances of civilization
…”They were just people, members of the race of white anmals…Highly neural, brachycephalic, unquely able to oppose their thumbs to the four other digits, they bred with elegant settlements, and both burned and interred their dead.” They were the people … Continue reading
OUR BEDFELLOW WHO ART …. IN INIQUITY
Whips, Knives and dreams of mass destruction. The Marquis de Sade. He knew what we have taken a long time to learn….sex is not just something that happens in a bedroom.Mankind is not doing well at the moment, but mankind … Continue reading
Posted in Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Modern Arts/Craft
Tagged Arthur Conan Doyle, Brien, C.P.Snow, Edmund Wilson, Elfriede Jelinek, Ian Brady, Jean Jacques Rousseau, John Sutherland, Josef Frizl, Kate O, Lesley Ann Downey, Man Ray, Marquis de Sade, mary Ellmann, Myra Hindley, Pamela Hansford Johnson, Rasputin, Stanislav Plutenko, Werner Fassbinder
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