In Depth with John Updike

Dec 4, 2005

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00:00:01 none IT WAS REALLY, REALLY FUN. THANKS. [APPLAUSE] BOYHOOD TERRAIN. IN A SENSE, IT IS DEEPLY FAMILIAR...
00:02:57 Unidentified Speaker EVERY 10 YEARS READERS WERE AT LEAST TREATED TO A LOOK BACK ON THE DECADE. FILLED WITH HISTORICAL...
00:03:13 Unidentified Speaker PEOPLE ASK ME WHAT WOULD RABBIT MAKE OF IcAQ AND BUSc AND ALL THAT. AND I REALLY DON'T KNOW. A LOT...
00:04:43 Unidentified Speaker MY QUESTION ACTUALLY WAS NOT SO MUCH HOW RABBIT WOULD HAVE VIEWED AMERICA, BUT HOW YOU'RE FEELING...
00:04:53 Unidentified Speaker I THINK IRAQ IS KIND OF LIKE A HEADACHE THAT WON'T GO AWAY AND ALL THOSE HEADLINES 10 MORE, 16 MORE...
00:06:06 Unidentified Speaker IT'S CALLED "TERRORIST "OIFMENT IT'S ABOUT A TERRORIST, ONLY ONE. AND IT'S NOT EXACTLY A THRILLER...
00:08:00 Unidentified Speaker I WONDER, YOU MENTIONED THE INTERNET BEFORE. WE LIVE IN AN AGE OF LOTS OF RAW INFORMATION COMING AT...
00:08:23 Unidentified Speaker WELL, HOW MUCH RAW INFORMATION GETS TO ME, PROBABLY A LOT LESS GETS TO YOU. BUT I DO READ THE NEWSPAPER....
00:10:12 Unidentified Speaker FOR THE --
00:10:14 Unidentified Speaker MAYBE WE'LL GO AWAY.
00:10:15 Unidentified Speaker FOR THE READER THEN, THOSE PEOPLE OUT THERE PICKING UP YOUR NOVELS, HOW DID THEY HELP THEM IN THIS...
00:10:25 Unidentified Speaker DEPENDS A LITTLE BIT ON WHICH NOVEL THEY PICK UP. CERTAINLY ALL OF THEM ARE -- BEGIN WITH SOME cSENSE...
00:12:21 Unidentified Speaker I THINK I HAVE IT HERE.
00:12:22 Unidentified Speaker I LOVE BUCHANAN. I DID A LOT OF WORK AND THE MOST RESEARCH I'VE EVER DONE FOR A BOOK. I TRIED TO GET...
00:13:20 Unidentified Speaker LET ME TELL OUR AUDIENCE HOW THEY CAN JOIN IN HERE. MR. UPDIKE WILL BE WITH US FOR THREE HOURS. THIS...
00:13:46 Unidentified Speaker YOU CAN ALSO SEND US AN E-MAIL --
00:13:51 Unidentified Speaker AND WE'LL INCLUDE YOUR QUESTIONS RIGHT AWAY. I GUESS WE OUGHT TO GET SOME MORE OF YOUR ROOTS ON THE...
00:14:08 Unidentified Speaker I SAID THAT SO TO SUZANNE SANDBERG VERY IMPULSIVELY. AND I DON'T KNOW QUITE WHAT I MEANT. EXCEPT...
00:15:04 Unidentified Speaker YOUR FATHER WAS A SCHOOLTEACHER. THE WAY YOU DESCRIBED IT IS EVERY YEAR HE WAS REQUIRED AT THE END...
00:15:10 Unidentified Speaker THAT WAS DURING THE DEPRESSION. I THINK IT WAS A WAY OF KEEPING THE SALARIES FROM RISING SOMEHOW....
00:17:20 Unidentified Speaker BUT PEOPLE WANTING TO KNOW % HOW YOU GOT INTc WRITING, YOUR MOTHER -- I HAVE A PHOTOGRAPH THAT YOU...
00:17:32 Unidentified Speaker YES. SHE WAS VERYER IF COSHESE. SHE WAS AN ONLY CHILD AS INDEED HER AUDIT WAS AND RIPPED AROUND THE...
00:19:05 Unidentified Speaker AND, IN FACT, IT WAS HER WORKING ON SHORT STORIES AND HER WORKING AT THE TYPEWRITER ARE ONE OF YOUR...
00:19:11 Unidentified Speaker I REMEMBER BEING IN BED WITH A FEVER. AND IF YOU WERE SICK IN BED YOU GOT TO NKT FRONT ROOM IN THE...
00:20:40 Unidentified Speaker LAST TOPIC BEFORE CALLS, AND WE HAVE FOLKS STACKED UP TO TALK YOU TO ALREADY. BUT THIS MAGAZINE, "THE...
00:20:58 Unidentified Speaker MY AUNT MARY WAS MY FATHER'S ONLY SISTER. SHE WAS SOPHISTICATED. SHE WORKED FOR A WHILE AND LIVED...
00:22:35 Unidentified Speaker QUITE REGULARLY EVER SINCE, TO BE MORE HONEST ABOUT IT. BUT WILL YOU -- IN CLOSING, LAST QUESTION,...
00:22:56 Unidentified Speaker THE FIRST STORY AND FIRST POEM, I WROTE AFTER I GRADUATED FROM HARVARD IN 1954 WERE ACCEPTEDc SO I...
00:26:45 Unidentified Speaker LET'S GET TO SOME TELEPHONE CALLS, BEGINNING WITH ONE FROM RIGHT HERE IN WASHINGTON, D.C. YOU ARE...
00:27:49 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU.
00:27:51 Unidentified Speaker THAT'S A GOOD QUESTION. LET ME TRY TO TACKLE THE FIRST PART OF IT, IF I MIGHTc S IN IN THE 1950'S...
00:32:49 Unidentified Speaker OUR NEXT CALL FOR YOU COMES FROM SAN DIEGO. YOU'RE ON YOUR JOHN UPDIKE. GOOD AFTERNOON.
00:32:55 Unidentified Speaker HI, SUSAN. HOW ARE YOU THIS MORNING?
00:32:59 Unidentified Speaker FINE, THANK YOU. CALLER: ALWAYS ENJOY LISTENING TO YOU. GOOD MORNING, MR. UPDIKE. I HAVE A COUPLE...
00:33:57 Unidentified Speaker WELL, IF YOU LOOK AT THE NEW BOOK, IT'S MOSTLY PAINTERS AND SOMc SCULPTORc WHO ARE LONG DEAD. I THINK...
00:35:58 Unidentified Speaker MAYWOOD, NEW JERSEY, GOOD AFTERNOON TO YOU.
00:36:01 Unidentified Speaker GOOD AFTERNOON. I, TOO, WANT TO THANK MRc UPDIKE FOR HIc MEMOIR cSELF CONSCIOUSNESS," AND I WAS WONDERING,...
00:36:52 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU.
00:36:53 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. THAT'S A LOT TO MULL OVER. LET ME GO BACK TO YOUR FIRST QUESTION WHICH WAS HOW DO OTHER...
00:39:24 Unidentified Speaker IS THAT SOMETHING YOU RELISH?
00:39:29 Unidentified Speaker SLIGHTLY. WRITERS -- PEOPLE IN THE ARTS GENERALLY DON'T ASPIRE TO THAT KIND OF POWER. THAT SORT OF...
00:41:02 Unidentified Speaker THE EARLIER CALLER REFERRED TO TOM WOLFE BEING ON THE PROGRAM. WE ACTUALLY HAVE A CLIP ON THAT PROGRAM...
00:41:10 Unidentified Speaker REALLY.
00:41:11 Unidentified Speaker LET'S LISTEN.
00:41:13 Unidentified Speaker WHAT YOU CALL THE THREE STOOGES, WE'LL GET INTO THIS LITTLE LATER, SAID THIS ABOUT THE "A MAN IN FULL...
00:41:34 Unidentified Speaker THAT LED YOU TO SAY A FEW THINGS ABOUT MR. UPDIKE.
00:41:37 Unidentified Speaker WHAT'S INTERESTING IS NOT JUST JOHN UPDIKE BUT ALSO NORMAN MAILER AND JOHN IRVING, THESE THREE OLD...
00:43:33 Unidentified Speaker REACTION.
00:43:35 Unidentified Speaker MANY -- HE TALKS VERY WELL, DOESN'T HE? HE'S A BRIGHT GUY ANYWAY, AND A DEDICATED WRITER, BUT cE DOEc...
00:46:53 Unidentified Speaker VERY RARELY, MERCIFULLY. IN FACT, I CAN HARDLY REMEMBER, THERE IS A -- ONCE IN A WHILE I GET A GRATEFUL...
00:48:49 Unidentified Speaker WE HEAR OUR QUESTIONS FROM THE OLD EAR PIECES. I WANT YOU TO TUCK IT IN THERE AS WE LISTEN TO YOUR...
00:49:01 Unidentified Speaker HELLO, CALLER.
00:49:04 Unidentified Speaker HELLO, MR. UPDIKE.
00:49:05 Unidentified Speaker HOW DO YOU DO?
00:49:08 Unidentified Speaker AMONG THE GREAT LIT RARELY DISAPPOINTMENTS OF THE LATTER PART OF THE 20TH CENTURY AND NOW THE 21ST...
00:49:34 Unidentified Speaker WELL, THANK YOU FOR CARING. FOR A LONG TIME, I THOUGHT IT WAS SOMETHING OTHER PEOPLE GOT. REALLY IT...
00:51:22 Unidentified Speaker NEXT QUESTION FOR JOHN UPDIKE IS FROM RICHMOND. GOOD AFTERNOON, CALLER. CALLER: GOOD AFTERNOON. THANK...
00:51:42 Unidentified Speaker 1932, ACTUALLY.
00:51:44 Unidentified Speaker I ALSO TAKE c"THc NEW YORKER" MAGAZINE BECAUSE THEY MADE ME AN OFFER I COULDN'T REFUSE. SEVERAL YEARS...
00:52:04 Unidentified Speaker YES, I WROTE "RABBIT, RUN ."
00:52:08 Unidentified Speaker AND IN A WAY, THE POOR DEVIL JUST DIDN'T MAKE NET. CALLER: YES, I HAVE READ THE BOOK.
00:52:17 Unidentified Speaker WE MISSED YOUR LASc COMPNT. CALLER: I CAN'T UND
00:52:21 Unidentified Speaker APPRECIATE YOUR COMPLIMENTS.
00:52:23 Unidentified Speaker CAN'T UNDERSTAND ME?
00:52:25 Unidentified Speaker COULDN'T UNDERSTAND THE QUESTIONS. LET ME ASK YOU ONE THAT CAME IN BY EMAIL WHICH ALSO MAKES REFERENCE...
00:53:11 Unidentified Speaker I TOOK PIANO LESSONS AS A LOT OF DEPRESSION ERA KIDS DID. IT WAS ONE OF THE WAYS THAT PARENTS HOPED...
00:55:29 Unidentified Speaker WELL, OUR TRUTH CERTAINLY LIES IN THE DIRECTION OF THE TELEPHONE CALL AND OTHER KINDS OF CALL IN ELECTRONIC...
00:56:55 Unidentified Speaker WE'RE SPENDING THREE HOURS TALKING WITH JOHN UPDIKE ABOUT HIS BODY OF WORK OVER HIS LIFETIME. HIS...
00:57:51 Unidentified Speaker I WAS RAISED WITHOUT TERRIFIC ARREST DOCTOR AS A LUTHERAN, AND I HAVE RE-- TERRIFIC ARDOR AS A LUacHERAN...
01:01:24 Unidentified Speaker IN cYOUR MEMOIR OF SELF-CONSCIOUSNESS, YOU WRITE ABOUT THE CONCEPT OF GOD. EVEN AS DOING SO, YOU SUGGEST...
01:01:35 Unidentified Speaker YES. I FORGET QUITE WHAT I SAY, BUT I WAS VERY SHY ABOUT WRITING c THAT CHAPTER. THE WHOLE BOOK,...
01:03:00 Unidentified Speaker I ALSO REMEMBER READING THAT YOU SAW THAT MANY ORGANIZED RELIGIONS THAT YOU ARE EXPOSED TO ARE RELIGIONS...
01:03:11 Unidentified Speaker I GUESS I DID. I GUESS I DID. THAT TERMINOLOGY I GOT FROM CARL BART WHO I FOUND TO BE THE MOST COMFORTING,...
01:04:00 Unidentified Speaker IN OTHER WORDS, THE ENJOYMENT OF BEING ALIVEc
01:04:04 Unidentified Speaker NEXT TELEPHONE CALL$c HELLO, PHOENIX, YOU'RE Oc THE DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION FOR US? CALLER: I COULDN'T...
01:04:14 Unidentified Speaker DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION? CALLER: YOU ARE ON THE AIR. THANK YOU VERY MUCH. I'M HONORED TO SPEAK TO MR....
01:06:15 Unidentified Speaker OK. THANK YOUc
01:06:22 Unidentified Speaker I'M SORRY MY BOOK STRIKES YOU AS BORING, BUT THE HOUSE OF HAS MANY MANSIONS. IT'S NICE THAT THERE...
01:09:24 Unidentified Speaker HAMPTON BAYS, NEW YORK. CALLER: IT'S A PLEASURE TO TALK TO MR. UPDIKE, AND I HAVE A QUESTION. AS...
01:09:46 Unidentified Speaker WELL, I DON'T WANT TO THINK IT'S BECOMING FORTRESS AMERICA DESPISED OF ALL AND DESIEGED BY MANY. ...
01:11:35 Unidentified Speaker AS YOU CAN ScE WITH OUR FORMAT, QUESTIONS MOVE FROM ONE TOPIC TO ANOTHER HERE.
01:11:41 Unidentified Speaker VERY GOOD FOR THE ANSWER.
01:11:43 Unidentified Speaker THE NEXT ONE IS CLOSE TO HOME, THOUGH. THE CALLING IS FROM SHILLINGTON, PENNSYLVANIA.
01:11:52 Unidentified Speaker REALLY?
01:11:54 Unidentified Speaker YOU'RE ON THE AIR, CALLER. CALLER: JOHN, I HAVEN'T HAD THE OPPORTUNITY TO READ YOUR MEMOIRS, BUT I...
01:12:30 Unidentified Speaker OH, PRETTY MUCH THE SAME IT WAS cWHEN I WAc GROWING UP. THE TgN ITSELF HASN'T CHANGED MUCH. A LOT...
01:13:00 Unidentified Speaker WHAT SUBJECT MATTER DID YOU TAKE AS A STUDENT FROM MR. UPDIKE?
01:13:06 Unidentified Speaker THAT WAS A SCIENCE CLASS. I DON'T REMEMBER SPECIFICALLY WHAT IT WAS. IT WAS A SCIENCE CLASSc
01:13:12 Unidentified Speaker THANKS FOR YOUR QUESTION.
01:13:17 Unidentified Speaker I'M ALWAYS HAPPY TO HEAc FROM MY TOWN. IT DOESN'T CHANGE AN AWFUL LOT. IT'S CHANGED ON THE EDGES A...
01:14:26 Unidentified Speaker IN FRONT OF THE HIGH SCHOOL, AS A MATTER OF FACT.
01:14:28 Unidentified Speaker BY THE HIGH SCHOOL, RIGHT. I WAS FORTUNATE IN A WAY, REALLY IN ALMOST EVERY WAY THAT I HAD MY FATHER...
01:16:05 Unidentified Speaker THE QUESTIONS ON YOUR LIFE, HERE IS ONE FROM A VIEWER NAMED JOHN MARTIN JOY M.D. WHO IS A PROFESSOR...
01:16:43 Unidentified Speaker THAT'S A VERY HARVARDIAN QUESTION. IT REMINDS ME OF MY ORAL EXAMS WHEN I GRADUATED FROM HARVARD. ...
01:19:10 Unidentified Speaker I JUST LOOKED THROUGH MY STACK OF EMAILS AND THERE IS ACTUALLY A GOLF QUESTION IN HERE. MR. UPDIKE...
01:19:23 Unidentified Speaker WHAT I LIKE ABOUT THE GAME IS THAT IT GETS YOU OUTDOORS AND IT'S SOMETHING THAT EVEN THE ELDERLY CAN...
01:20:55 Unidentified Speaker A DREAM FOURSOME.
01:20:57 Unidentified Speaker A DREAM FOURSOME. I DON'T WANT TO PLAY IN A DREAM FOURSOME BECAUSE I'M NOT UP TO THEM, BUT I WOULD...
01:22:03 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THE FOURTH IS YOU.
01:22:08 Unidentified Speaker I GUESS THAT WOULD BE A FOURSOME, BUT I WOULD ANNOY THESE OTHERS QUITE A LOT. A GOLFER I WOULD LOVE...
01:22:39 Unidentified Speaker WE HAVE JUST A COUPLE MINUTES LEFT. ALMOST HALFWAY THROUGH OUR THREE-HOUR CONVERSATION WITH JOHN...
01:22:50 Unidentified Speaker AI, MR. UPDcKE. FIRST OF ALL, I THOUGHT THIS DREAM FOURSOME MIGHT BE YOU, NORMAN MAILEK JOHN cIRVING,...
01:24:10 Unidentified Speaker YOU DIDN'T DO BADLY WITH CATCHER AND THE RYE. YOU MIGHT TRY HUCKLEBERRY FINN, WHICH IS A 19TH CENTURY...
01:25:12 Unidentified Speaker AND OF YOUR OWN BOOKS?
01:25:14 Unidentified Speaker OF MY OWN BOOKS, ASIDE FROM THE RABBITS, WELL, I WAS -- TO AN IRANIAN, I MIGHT RECOMMEND THE CROUP,...
01:26:18 Unidentified Speaker NASHVILLE, YOU'RE ON WITH JOHN UPDIKE.
01:26:20 Unidentified Speaker YES, I HAD TWO QUESTIONS. THE FIRST WAS GOING TO BE A GOLF QUESTION BUT THAT HAS BEEN ANSWERED. I...
01:26:35 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU.
01:26:39 Unidentified Speaker CAN YOU THINK OF A PROTAG KNIT, IF ANYc WHc REFLECTS YOUR VIEW IN FICTION OR SOMEBODY YOU WOULD IDENTIFY...
01:26:55 Unidentified Speaker SO IN HIS WORKS, YOU'RE LOOKING FOR SOMEONE THAT PORTRAYS HIS VIEWS?
01:26:59 Unidentified Speaker YES. MY RELIGIOUS VIEWS SORT OF CHANGE FROM DAY TO DAY IN A WAY. I WOULD CERTAINLY AFTER RABBIT ANGSTROM...
01:28:28 Unidentified Speaker WE WILL TAKE ABOUT FIVE MINUTES HERE, A BREAK FROM THE STUDIO, AND TELL YOU MORE INFORMATION ABOUT...
01:32:34 Unidentified Speaker TODAY ON "AFTERWARDS" MARY MAPES ON HER ROLE IN THE "60 MINUTES" 2 INVESTIGATION ON GEORGE W. BUSH'S...
01:33:05 Unidentified Speaker "WORDS" IS ALSO AVAILABLE AS A C-SPAN POD BROADCAST. LOOK FOR IT AT C-SPAN.ORG.
01:33:18 Unidentified Speaker TONIGHT ON C-SPAN'S Q AND A, STEPHEN BREYER ON HIS COLLEAGUES.
01:33:23 Unidentified Speaker I HAVE NEVER IN THAT CONFERENCE ROOM, IN 11 YEARS, HEARD A VOICE RACED IN ANGER. I HAVE NEVER HEARD...
01:33:42 Unidentified Speaker JUST STEPHEN BREYER, ON C-SPAN'S WAY Q AND A.;
01:33:49 Unidentified Speaker LISTEN ON X BLACK ROCK M RADIO CHANNEL 132 AND ON SIRIOUS, 139. c POD CASTING IS THE NEWEST WAY TO...
01:34:31 Unidentified Speaker ON YOUR SCREEN IS THE AUTHOR JOHN UPDIKE WHO IS SPENDING THREE HOURS WITH US ON IN DEPTH TODAY. OUR...
01:35:07 Unidentified Speaker THAT WAS ON THE ALLEY NEXT TO US. WE LIVED NEXT TO A GRAVEL ALLEY AND I WAS SOMEHOW SITTING THERE...
01:35:15 Unidentified Speaker HAPPY IN THE GRAVEL.
01:35:18 Unidentified Speaker HERE IS A LATER POINT IN YOUR CAREER, BUT DO YOU RECOGNIZE THE TIME FRAME FOR THIS?
01:35:24 Unidentified Speaker WELL, I WAS STILL SMOKING LITTLE CIGARS, BUT THAT MEANT I HAD GIVEN UP CIGARETTES. I HAD A LONG KIND...
01:35:33 Unidentified Speaker IT LOOKS VERY 60S TOE MOO.
01:35:43 Unidentified Speaker I THINK THAT WAS MY OFFICE IN IPSICH. WE KNOW THIS PICTURE IS AFTER 1968. MY GUESS IS AROUND 1971....
01:35:50 Unidentified Speaker HERE IS ONE MORE. WE WILL END THIS AND GO BACK TO CALLS. THIS IS IN Uc IPSWICH.
01:36:01 Unidentified Speaker WE LIVED IN A 17TH CENTURY HOUSE IN A LITTLE BACK YARD AND MADE A LOT OF USE OF IT. THAT'S MY YOUNGER...
01:36:12 Unidentified Speaker YOU'RE SHOWING SOME FACILITY AT JUGGLING, TOO.
01:36:17 Unidentified Speaker I TAUGHT MYSELF HOW TO JUGGLE THREE BALLS AND I COULD DO IT BUT IT WAS AN AWKWARD WAY TO DO IT, NOT...
01:36:28 Unidentified Speaker HERE WE HAVE YOU JUGGLING QUESTIONS TODAY. WE WILL GO BACK TO THAT. NEXT IS A CALLER FROM AGAINSTBORO,...
01:37:27 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU.
01:37:30 Unidentified Speaker I WROTE BRAZIL AFTER BEING IN BRAZIL FOR A MERE WEEK. BUST I HAD A LONG INTEREST IN BRAZIL WHEN I...
01:41:07 Unidentified Speaker WE'RE TALKING ABOUT YOUR CHARACTERIZATION OF BLACK CHARACTERS. IT'S AN APPROPRIATE TIME TO MENTION...
01:42:21 Unidentified Speaker THAT SEEMS TO BE A GOOD DESCRIPTION. SITUATION. MY OWN PERSONAL SITUATION IS EVEN -- NOT ONLc DID...
01:44:36 Unidentified Speaker PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA, YOU'RE UP NEXT. CALLER: THANK YOU FOR TAKING MY CALL. MY QUESTION IS WHICH...
01:45:00 Unidentified Speaker I'M A BOOK REVIEWER, BY NO MEANS AN EXPERT ON YOUNGER AMERICAN WRITERS. MICHAEL SH HABAN WHO IS OLDER...
01:48:02 Unidentified Speaker SPEAKING OF FILMS, THERE'S Ac EMAIL QUESTION, WHICH IS SOMEONE WANTING TO KNOW, IN ADDITION TO THE...
01:48:16 Unidentified Speaker I THOUGHT "COUPLES" WOULD HAVE MADE A GOOD PICTURE. IT WAS A BEST SELLER IN A MODEST SORT OF WAY....
01:51:09 Unidentified Speaker BOSTON, HELLO. CALLER: THANK YOU FOR TAKING MY CALL AND HAVING THIS PROGRAMc c LOVE MR. UPDIKE'S SHORT...
01:52:18 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU.
01:52:20 Unidentified Speaker I AGREE WITH YOU THAT WHEN YOU BEGIN TO SETTLE DOWN TO READ A BOOK AT 9:30, YOU DON'T GET TERRIBLY...
01:53:13 Unidentified Speaker DO YOU WRITE SIX DAYS A WEEK STILL?
01:53:15 Unidentified Speaker YEAH. AND SOMETIMES SOMETHING HAS ON THE 7TH, AS MY WIFE COMPLAINED, BUT, YEAH, I TRY TO WRITE CERTAINLY...
01:53:35 Unidentified Speaker WHILE YEAR'S TALKING ABOUT IT, A I HAVE JIM KREMETZ BOOK. THERE ARE THREE PHOTOGRAPHS OF YOU IN A...
01:53:52 Unidentified Speaker I USED TO HAVE A NICE BIG ROOM IN GEORGETOWN IN MASSACHUSETTS. BUT THEN WE MOVED TO A BIGGER HOUSE...
01:55:13 Unidentified Speaker BUT THE DISCIPLINE AND YOU HAVE TALKED ABOUT IT IN VARIOUS INTERVIEWS IN YOUR BOOK. THE DISCIPLINE...
01:55:25 Unidentified Speaker I THINK. SO HOW ELSE COULD YOU DO IT? CURT TALKS ABOUT THE JOY OF NOT WRITING. AND IF YOU SUCCUMB...
01:56:40 Unidentified Speaker THE NEXT PHONE CALL IS FROM FORT WORTH, TEXAS. CALLER: HELLO, MR. UPDIKE. MY FATHER BACK IN PROBABLY...
01:57:00 Unidentified Speaker I WAS TALKING TO SOMEBODY ABOUT WOOD HOUSE TO SOMEBODY WHO WAS SAYING HOW DELIGHTFUL IT IS AND SAID...
01:58:03 Unidentified Speaker HE WAS A VERY LOSE IT WRITER AND HE CAN MAKE YOU LAUGH IN HIS CHAIR LIKE FEW OTHER WRITERS AND THERE...
01:58:45 Unidentified Speaker ARE ALL 60 OF YOURS STILL IN
01:58:46 Unidentified Speaker NO. SOME HAVE DRIFTED OUT. SOME THEY DON'T EVEN TELL ME. I BROUGHT -- BIEW CAN UNANIMOUS DYING, A...
01:59:18 Unidentified Speaker HE DIED TWICE. YES.
01:59:19 Unidentified Speaker ONE OF THE REASON FOR GETTING OUT OF THE EARLY STORIES, A COUPLE OF OTHER VOLUMES OR COLLECTIONS GONE...
01:59:35 Unidentified Speaker DID YOU TINKER WITH THEM AGAIN?
01:59:36 Unidentified Speaker A LITTLE BIT. I CHANGED -- THERE WERE SOME SLOT TROUBLEc THE BASIc PLOT WAS THE BOY WAS A CHECK OUT...
02:00:38 Unidentified Speaker GREENWOOD, SOUTH CAROLINA. DO YOU HAVE A QUESTION FOR JOHN UPDIKE? CALLER: YES, THANK YOU. FROM THE...
02:01:05 Unidentified Speaker JAMES JOYCE SO SOMEBODY THAT YOU CAN'T GET AROUND. SHE REALLY THERE. AND THE STORIES, THE DUBLINER'S...
02:02:57 Unidentified Speaker DO YOU HAVE AN ESTIMATE OF HOW LARGE YOUR PERSONAL LIBRARY IS?
02:03:01 Unidentified Speaker NO, I TEND TO HANG ON TO BOOKS. I KNOW THAT MY WIFE'S URGING, I CLEANED OUT THE CELLULAR AND THE BARN...
02:04:00 Unidentified Speaker HAVE YOU ALREADY MADE ARRANGEMENTS FOR YOUR PAPERS TO BE STORED OR ARCHIVED ANYWHERE?
02:04:06 Unidentified Speaker MY PAPERS Ac THc MOMENT ARE PUT ON DEPOSIT AT MY ALMA MATTER, HARVARD UNIVERSITY. ORIGINALLY I GAVE...
02:05:26 Unidentified Speaker AS A MATTER OF FACT, WE WILL DO A QUESTION FROM A PROFESSOR NEXT SINCE WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THAT. ...
02:06:09 Unidentified Speaker RABBIT RUN WAS WRITTEN KIND OF PREFEMINIST AND MY ATTEMPT WAS ONLY TO SHOW THE WORKINGS OF THIS PARTICULAR...
02:07:13 Unidentified Speaker PARTICULARLY WHY?
02:07:14 Unidentified Speaker BECAUSE IT IS KIND OF ROUGH IN A WAY, ROB IT'S THOUGHTS. HE WANTS TO KILL HIS WIFE AND HE DEGRADES...
02:09:54 Unidentified Speaker LOSS ALTOS, CALIFORNIA, YOU'RE IN OUR CONVERSATION. CALLER: MR. UPDIKE, I LOVE YOUR BOOKS. SINCE I...
02:10:48 Unidentified Speaker HE WAS LABELED AS WESTERN WRITER AT THE TIME I WAS GETTING AWARE OF WRITERS AND I FELT, AS AN EASTERN...
02:13:38 Unidentified Speaker THAT CALLER MENTIONED THIS BOOK AND THE BEAUTY -- "IN THE BEAUTY OF THE LILIES." WHAT IS YOUR FASCINATION...
02:13:50 Unidentified Speaker I WAS STRUCK BY THE BEAUTY OF THAT. THE BATTLE HYMN OF THE REPUBLIC IS SORT OF THE BATTLE CRY SONG...
02:15:31 Unidentified Speaker JOHN UPDIKE IS GIVING US THREE HOURS OF HIS TIME TODAY. WE HAVE ABOUT 40 MINUTES LEFT. IF HAVE YOU...
02:16:34 Unidentified Speaker DID YOUR AUNT WORK FOR INGALLS?
02:16:36 Unidentified Speaker SHE DIDN'T SPEAK OF HIM MUCH AND I DON'T KNOW WHAT HER IMPRESSION WAS, BUT HIS DIARIES MENTION MARY...
02:19:36 Unidentified Speaker I GUESS CHRISTY WAS ON THE LIST OF OTHER WRITERRERS THAT
02:19:39 Unidentified Speaker I LOVE IT. I READ IT MOSTLY WHEN I WAS IN MY TEENS. SO HOW SENSITIVE IS A TEENAGER TO STYLE? NOT...
02:23:18 Unidentified Speaker OUR NEXT CALLER LIVES IN HAWAII. WHERE IN HAWAII DO YOU LIVE, CALLER?
02:23:24 Unidentified Speaker GARDEN ISLAND IN KUAI.
02:23:27 Unidentified Speaker NICE TO HAVE YOU WITH US.
02:23:30 Unidentified Speaker THANK YOU. APPRECIATION, JOHN, FOR c COUPLE Oc IMAGES THAT YOU PLANTED IN MY HEAD. ONE I GET A LAUGH...
02:24:39 Unidentified Speaker WELL, THANK YOU, THANK YOU. YOU'RE ALMOST MAKING ME CRY, THINKING ABOUT THE MAPLES. BUT ABOUT THE...
02:26:26 Unidentified Speaker THE FLIP SIDE WHILE WE'RE IN THIS GENRE OF THE RABBIT COUPLES AND THE MAPLES, YOU MADE SOME REFERENCES...
02:26:58 Unidentified Speaker YEAH, IT DID COME UP "RABBIT, RUN," WAS CONSIDERED A RACY MANUSCRIPT, SO RACE THAT HE LEGAL ADVICE...
02:30:16 Unidentified Speaker OUR NEXT CALLER HAS A QUESTION ABOUT YOUR BUCHANAc BOOKS. WORCESTER, OHIO.
02:30:22 Unidentified Speaker MR. UPDIKE SAID EARLIER THAT HE HAS DONE A LOT OF RESEARCH ON PRESIDENc JAMES BUCHANAN AND EVEN WROTE...
02:31:07 Unidentified Speaker NOT VERY, I DON'T HAVE MUCH DIRECT EXPERIENCE OF IT NOR I GUESS A VERY KEEN CONSCIOUS INTEREST IN...
02:34:01 Unidentified Speaker AND ARE THERE PAPERS THAT MIGHT BE OPENED THAT MIGHT REVEAL THE TRUE NATURE OF THE RELATIONSHIP --...
02:34:12 Unidentified Speaker WHAT WAS -- HE LEFT A BUNDLE OF PAPERS INVOLVING HIS COMMUNICATIONS WITH ANN COLEMAN TO HIS -- HE...
02:34:40 Unidentified Speaker WE HAVE c TRAVELING VEHICLE WE'VE BUILT CALLED THE C-SPAN BOOK TV BUS AND IT GOES AROUND TO LIBRARIES...
02:34:59 Unidentified Speaker ALL RIGHT.
02:35:02 Unidentified Speaker I -- Mc QUESTIOc RELATES TO TED WILLIAMS, THE GREAT BALLPLAYER AND YOUR INTEREST IN HIM FROM YOUR...
02:35:48 Unidentified Speaker THE PIECE IS CALLED "HOW FANS BID KID ADIEU".
02:35:54 Unidentified Speaker YES, MY ONE FAMOUS SPORTS PIECE AND IT WAS WRITTEN OUT OF A REAL LOVE FOc UUD WILLIAMS. AS A CHILD,...
02:37:11 Unidentified Speaker AHEAD OF HIS TIME IN THE BAD BOYS SPORTS?
02:37:14 Unidentified Speaker HE WAS THE BAD BOY OF SPORT BEFORE AND HE WAS c BAD BOY Ac A TIME WHEN THEY WERE BEGINNING TO TATTLE...
02:38:08 Unidentified Speaker NEXT CALL FROM MIDLAND, TEXAS. GOOD CALLER: THANK YOU FOR TAKING MY CALLc JOHN, I'M BEEN FAN Oc...
02:38:53 Unidentified Speaker WELL, I READ "THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS" WHICH WAS WRITTEN BY A YOUNG INDIAN WOMAN. I HAVE FORGOTTEN...
02:40:34 Unidentified Speaker I'VE CHOSE THEN EMAIL BECAUSE IT'S A QUESTION THAT I WANTED TO ASK YOU. I WAS STRUCK IN YOUR MEMOIR...
02:41:27 Unidentified Speaker I THANK THE READER FOR THE OBSERVATION, AND, NO, I'VE NEVER BEEN A NOTEBOOKKEEPER. I BELIEVE THAT...
02:43:13 Unidentified Speaker I TRY TO MAKE THE NOTION HIT ME ALL THE TIME SO THAT -- I MEAN, IF YOU WRITE WITHOUT ANY NOTION YOU...
02:45:01 Unidentified Speaker NEXT PHONE CALL, ALBANY. HI.
02:45:02 Unidentified Speaker HELLO. CALLER: HI, THERE. THANKS FOR TAKING MY CALL. I APPRECIATED WHAT YOU HAD TO SAY ABOUT TEc...
02:45:25 Unidentified Speaker I READ THOSE. I REALLY DID A LOT Oc REER'G AT SOME POINTS AND I DON'T RECALL READING AS MANY OUT OF...
02:46:37 Unidentified Speaker ABOUT SEVEN MINUTES LEFT IN OUR CONVERSATION WITH YOU. FLINGING THESE QUESTIONS OF ALL TOPICS YOUR...
02:47:05 Unidentified Speaker THAT WAS WRITTEN WHEN WILLIAM SHAWN AT LAST WAS RETIRED AS EDITOR OF THE NEW YORKER AND TINA BROWN...
02:48:22 Unidentified Speaker NEXT TELEPHONE CALL FROM ENNIS, TEXAS. CALLER: THANKS VERY MUCH. AND MY QUESTION IS FOR THE LIST ...
02:48:47 Unidentified Speaker I ONCE READ A MCCARTHY BOOK ABOUT A MAN WHO WAS LIVING IN A CAVE EATING CORPSES. MAYBE I MISREMEMBER...
02:50:50 Unidentified Speaker WE ARE JUST ABOUT OUT OF TIME. AND I FEEL THE NEED FOR SOME SORT OF SUMMARY CONVERSATION WITH ALL...
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02:51:18 Unidentified Speaker HE DID SAY THAT, AND MY MOTHER QUOTED TO ME WHEN I WAS GETTING A DIVORCE AND FEELING VERY GUILTY AND...
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