Hugging the Shore: Essays and Criticism by John Updike
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Overview: Since 1960 the novelist and poet has been reviewing books for the New Yorker, and the reviews of the last eight years make up the bulk of this volume. Authors include Edmund Wilson, Vladimir Nabokov, Franz Kafka, Muriel Spark, Anne Tyler, Italo Calvino, Henry Green, Robert Pinget, L.E. Sissman, R.K. Narayan and Roland Barthes. He also writes of actresses Louise Brooks and Doris Day and golfers Sam Snead and Arnold Palmer.
This collection begins somewhere near deep water, with a flotilla of short fiction, humor pieces, and personal essays, and even the least of the reviews here–those that “come about and draw even closer to the land with another nine-point quotation”–are distinguished by a novelist’s style, insight, and accuracy, not just surface sparkle.
Genre: Non-Fiction | Literary Criticism | Essays
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