Updike in Cincinnati : a literary performance / edited by James Schiff ; photographs by Jon Hughes.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Updike, John.

Contributor:

Schiff, James A., 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Updike, John--Appreciation--United States.

Updike, John.

Updike, John--Criticism and interpretation.

Authors and readers--Ohio--Cincinnati.

Authors and readers.

Criticism and interpretation.

Ohio--Cincinnati.

United States.

Physical Description:

xxxii, 129 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Athens : Ohio University Press, [2007]

Summary:

"" I had a great time in Cincinnati; but why is there no shrine to Doris Day?" " - John Updike In the wake of race riots and an airline strike, John Updike came to the University of Cincinnati in April 2001 as an honored guest. Over two spring days, he engaged and charmed his audiences, reading from his fiction, fielding questions, sitting for an interview, participating in a panel discussion, and touring Cincinnati. "Updike in Cincinnati"- composed of a wealth of materials, including session transcripts, short fiction read and discussed by the author, photographs, and anecdotal observations about Updike's behavior in the Queen City- is unique in comprehensively documenting a literary visit by a major American author.

Contents:

Introduction : The writer in public

Letter to be included as an afterword to the introduction / John Updike

Zimmer Auditorium reading

Elliston Room panel : Updike, his critics, and his short fiction

A conversation at the College Conservatory of Music

Mercantile Library Reading.

ISBN:

9780821417485

0821417487

OCLC:

77116869

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