Adam Begley on John Updike

Join Adam Begley, one of the nation’s foremost literary critics, for a conversation about one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike.

Begley is the author of a new Updike biography, and offers a candid, intimate and richly detailed look at the acclaimed novelist, poet, short-story writer and critic who saw himself as a literary spy in small-town and suburban America, and who dedicated himself to the task of transcribing “middleness with all its grits, bumps and anonymities.”











When: Tue., Apr. 8, 2014 at 12:00 pm
Where: The 92nd Street Y, New York
1395 Lexington Ave.
212-415-5500
Price: From $21
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Join Adam Begley, one of the nation’s foremost literary critics, for a conversation about one of the most celebrated figures in American literature: Pulitzer Prize-winning author John Updike.

Begley is the author of a new Updike biography, and offers a candid, intimate and richly detailed look at the acclaimed novelist, poet, short-story writer and critic who saw himself as a literary spy in small-town and suburban America, and who dedicated himself to the task of transcribing “middleness with all its grits, bumps and anonymities.”

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