Updike
Proper noun
Meaning
Updike
A surname from Dutch.
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Career as a writer 1950s Updike stayed at The New Yorker as a full staff writer for only two years, writing "Talk of the Town" columns and submitting poetry and short stories to the magazine.
British poet Gavin Ewart praised Updike for the metaphysical quality of his poetry and for his ability "to make the ordinary seem strange," and calls Updike one of the few modern novelists capable of writing good poetry.
Describing his purpose in writing prose, Updike himself, in the introduction to his Early Stories: 1953–1975 (2004), wrote that his aim was always "to give the mundane its beautiful due."
Furthermore, Updike was seen as the "best prose writer in the world", like Nabokov before him.
All seven pieces were previously printed in the, and like another favorite author of that magazine, John Updike, Antrim deals with the domestic: couples, husbands and wives, fidelity (or not) and personal failings.
And Updike had his pet obsessions — they seemed to be about a good boy being naughty.