Picked-Up Pieces: Essays

In John Updike s second collection of assorted prose he comes into his own as a book reviewer; most of the pieces picked up here were first published in The New Yorker in the 1960s and early 70s. If one word could sum up the young critic s approach to books and their authors it would be generosity: [...]
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In John Updike s second collection of assorted prose he comes into his own as a book reviewer; most of the pieces picked up here were first published in The New Yorker in the 1960s and early 70s. If one word could sum up the young critic s approach to books and their authors it would be generosity: Better to praise and share, he says in his Foreword, than to blame and ban. And so he follows his enthusiasms, which prove both deserving and infectious: Kierkegaard, Proust, Joyce, Dostoevsky, and Hamsun among the classics; Borges, Nabokov, Grass, Bellow, Cheever, and Jong among the contemporaries. Here too are meditations on Satan and cemeteries, travel essays on London and Anguilla, three very early golf dreams, and one big interview. Picked-Up Pieces is a glittering treasury for every reader who likes life, books, wit and John Updike."