John Updike died today. His writings have dominated American fiction for so long that it was a shock to hear he passed.
Over the years he has written such an amazingly large collection of stories and novels that he is almost guaranteed his own shelf at a library. After a while you forgot that he was just a man, and therefore mortal.
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