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Foreword xvii
Real Conversation
The Writer in Winter 3
A Desert Encounter 8
Nessus at Noon 13
The Football Factory 16
The Beloved 25
The Lens Factory 41
Five Poems
Basium XVI 46
Head of a Girl, at the Met 48
Cafeteria, Mass. General Hospital 49
An Hour Without Color 50
Not Cancelled Yet 51
Book Chat
Humor in Fiction 55
Lives and Laurels
Seven Kierkegaard 70
F. Scott Fitzgerald 72
Ernest Hemingway 73
Kurt Vonnegut 75
L. E. Sissman 77
Raymond Carver 78
Forewords and Afterwords
The Haunted Major, by Robert Marshall 81
The Complete Lyrics of Cole Porter, edited by Robert Kimball 85
The Lnzhin Defense, by Vladimir Nabokov 90
The Best American Short Stories of the Century, edited by John Updike with Katrina Kenison 96
Works and Days
The Changeling 106
Back-Chat, Funny Cracks 113
Imperishable Maxwell 121
Basically Decent 134
Fiction Now
Hugger-Mugger 140
Classics Galore 147
A Boston Fable 153
Nan, American Man 158
An Upstate Saga 163
Relative Strangers 168
Dreamy Wilderness 173
Americana
Famous Aimee 178
Laissez-faire Is More 185
Makeup and Make-Believe 192
Sparky from St. Paul 199
Gallery Tours
Old Masters
A Wistful Würzburger 209
Singular in Everything 217
More Light on Delft 225
Plain and Simplified 231
Romantics and Realists
"Therefore I Print" 241
Innerlichkeit and Eigentümlichkeit 249
Splendid Lies 257
A Lean and Optical Dane 264
Lear Far and Near 271
The Artist as Trailblazer 279
Van Gogh and Seurat
Uncertain Skills, Determined Spirit 287
The Purest of Styles 295
Pointillism in Black and White 302
Secessionists and Surrealists
Can Genitals Be Beautiful? 309
New Kind on the Block 316
Beyond Real 326
The Enduring Magritte 336
Jean Ipoustéguy 341
Photographers
Visual Trophies 344
Aftermaths 352
Pet Topics
The Universe
The Valiant Swabian 363
Visions of Mars 370
Extreme Dinosaurs 373
The Commonwealth
Harvard Square in the Fifties 377
Ipswich in the Seventies
Three Texts from Early Ipswich 378
Lovell Thompson 381
Open Spaces 394
Memoirs of a Massachusetts Golfer 399
The Game
In Love with a Wanton 405
Playing with Better Players 407
Walking Insomnia 409
Lost Balls 412
Being Senior 414
Table Talk
The End of Authorship 419
In Defense of the Amateur Reader 422
A Poetics of Book Reviewing 424
An American View of English Fiction 425
Comment on "Poetry's Failure in the Marketplace" 426
Foreword to the 1982 Edition of The Carpentered Hen 426
Introduction to the 1977 Edition of The Poorhouse Fair 429
From the Afterword to Buchanan Dying 438
Reply to Paul Boyer's Appraisal of Memories of the Ford Administration 443
Letter to Rosemary Herbert, Book Review Editor of the Boston Herald, Anent Gertrude and Claudius 446
Introduction to Rabbit Angstrom: The Four Novels 448
Foreword to The Early Stories: 1953-1975 461
Foreword to Too Far to Go: The Maples Stories 467
Note on "The Indian" 467
Note on Bech: His Oeuvre 468
Replies to Three Questions About Licks of Love 469
The "Original Ending" of Self-Consciousness 471
On One's Own Style 472
Letter Included as an Afterword to the Introduction of Updike in Cincinnati 473
The Courage of Ballplayers 474
Post-Hubble Astronomy 475
On "The American Idea" 475
Commencement Address, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, 1993 476
Accepting the Lifetime Achievement Award from the Conference on Christianity and Literature 479
Index 481
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