Prolific novelist John Updike died today of lung cancer in Beverly Farms, Massachusetts at age 76. Have you read his short story A&P? Capturing the teenage hell of working retail, it's one of his best short stories. An excerpt from the full (short) story:
Alan Zweibel presents Clothing Optional 7:30pm @ Skylight Books
The 2005 finalists for the Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction contest have been announced, and they include Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Salman Rushdie, and John Updike. You can read the complete list and the passages for which the offending authors were nominated here. Laist's (least) favorite follows, from Marlon Brando's godawful, posthumously published novel,
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What I'm Thankful For
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