Arts: A Conversation with John Updike - NYTimes.com/Video

[jenniferashley99]

I would have loved to chat with him at the local library table..he's a rare jewel found far and few these days..we miss you Updike.

[klizmun1]

Certainly a talented writer and hardworking. I would not go as far as 'greatest writer that has ever lived' as someone put here. Maybe for the US... Some of the images are beautifully written. Moves with the time, is not shy to write a more populist prose when required. Always ready to be mean. Picks on and puts down Philip Roth in every interview. Says nasty things with the smile.

[misterbiggg69]

the dirtiest name i have ever heard, lol.

[poopscoop512]

when he says that ernest hemingway was a priest, well i thought that was brilliant and agree one hundred percent. hemingway's voice in his writing is so prolific and holy and measures up to christ.

[SuperFabiusmaximus]

Greatest writer that has ever lived. He formed his own reality with words and a scalpel pen. You read and the world bleeds before your eyes.

[TommyTomato93]

so i guess he never finished that novel? sad, he died a year later.

[Protagoras4444]

Nice guy.

[fuhmeregan]

master of the simile - the music of literature. but take away that 'special effect' (as rhyming is to poetry, as alliteration is to 'catchy' names) and you have a dull cynicism, an existential blandness of who we really are. Something no one wants to think about. 

[jerryd1234567]

He doesn't say whether or not he disagrees with the notion that happiness is to be young, does he?

[pinkertonmusic]

A Truly Great Writer!

[humdrum99]

It was a dark and stormy night.

Hojn Pudkite peered directly into the darknes.

Cherchez le femme....dans la nuit... "Where do we get a sex maniac at this time of night??" his friend Grapefruit growled in a manly fashion on old spiral telephone. "We'll have to design one, on such short notice..."

[BrulesRules001]

i bet more people are going to die by the mexican drug cartel if the new your post doesn't pay the 300 million dollar loan they gave them at 14% intrest. go figure they dont want to control the broader they are part of the problem.

[procommenter]

John Updike wrote a pornographic section for

his 2006 novel "Terrorist." He must've

been trying to win a porno award.

[Whistleblower101]

Whistleblower101 on You Tube is running for US Senate in NY

[BinkieMcFartnuggets]

Fortunately his evil twin sister Joan Downfag can continue his legacy.

[handcannon8698]

zzzziiiillllcccchhh

[ForewordLateral]

beautiful writer, beautiful man, truly great american artist

[pakarpis]

Thank you Mr. Updike for the beautifully

crafted work all these years.

[seka1986]

NY Times ad revenue continues to plummet. Hopefully the paper will be out of business in a few months.

[misterpeaky]

R I P, writers rock!

[lxrlllxf]

What a loss. I wonder if his novel is done?