Due considerations
Subtitle: essays and criticism
By: John Updike
Edition: Ballantine Books trade pbk. ed.
Publisher: Ballantine Books
Published: 2008
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 703
ISBN-13: 9780345499004
Subjects: History and criticism; Modern Literature
Description: Product description: Updike reflects on such writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, Don DeLillo, A.S. Byatt, Colson Whitehead, and Margaret Atwood. He visits China, goes to art exhibitions, provides a whimsical and insightful list of 'Ten Epochal Moments in the American Libido,' and shares his thoughts on the fall of the Twin Towers, which he witnessed from a tenth-floor apartment in Brooklyn.
Notes: Originally published: New York : A. Knopf, 2007.

Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Everything considered; title: On literary biography; title: Five essays; title: Back from China; title: A sense of change; title: The future of faith; title: Invisible cathedral; title: Late works; title: General considerations; title: A case for books; title: Looking back to now; title: The Tried and the Trēowe; title: A layman's scope; title: Against angelolatry; title: Ten Epochal moments in the American libido; title: Five great novels about loving; title: hydrophobia; title: My life in poker; title: My life in cars; title: Tributes and short takes; title: The academy as it was and is: A talk, with slides; title: West 155th street; title: The New Yorker; title: William Shawn; title: William Maxwell; title: Wright Morris; title: Eudora Welty; title: Ernest Hemingway; title: Ted Williams; title: November 22, 1963; title: J.F.K., Jr.; title: September 11, 2001; title: Considering books; title: Introductions; title: To the everyman's library edition of The Mabinogion; title: To the Blithedale romance/ Nathaniel Hawthorne; title: To Walden/ Henry David Thoreau; title: To the portrait of a lady/ Henry James; title: To the diary of Adam and Eve and other Adamic stories/ MarkTwain; title: To seven men/ Max Beerbohm; title: To the rich boy/ F. Scott Fitzgerald; title: To the eighth day/ Thornton Wilder; title: To the golden west: Hollywood Stories/ Daniel Fuchs; title: To Karl Shapiro: Selected Poems; title: To elephant house, or, the home of Edward Gorey/ Kevin McDermott; title: To Christmas at the New Yorker: stories, poems, humor, and art; title: To the German catalogue of an exhibit of photographs by Ulrich Mack of the Ipswich marshes; title: Monuments; title: The great I am; title: Big dead white man; title: Down the river; title: Oz Is us; title: Hide and seek; title: Thurber and White; title: Introduction to the perennial edition of Is sex necessary?; title: Thurber's art; title: Magnum Opus; title: Introduction to a new edition of the letters of E.B. White; title: American fiction; title: These trashy years; title: Coming home; title: Tote that Ephemera; title: Dog's tears; title: One-Way street; title: Red loves Rex, Alas; title: Angel-Tits and Hellmouth; title: Mind/body problems I; title: Mixed messages; title: The great game gone; title: A cloud of dust; title: English fiction; title: Property and presumption; title: A same-sex idyll; title: Fairy tales and paradigms; title: Stonewalling Toffs and Gnomic blood; title: Flesh on flesh; title: Absent presences; title: Mind/body problems II; title: Flashy to the rescue; title: In English but not English; title: Home care; title: Love and loss on Zycron; title: Dangerous into beautiful; title: Both rough and tender; title: Papery passions; title: Blood and paint; title: A case of Deutschfeindlichkeit; title: The story of himself; title: Pre-gay gray; title: Paradises lost; title: In other tongues; title: Dying for love; title: The lone sailor; title: Two's a crowd; title: Mind/body problems III; title: Suppressed atrocities; title: Murder among the miniaturists; title: Arabesques of ambivalence; title: Subconscious tunnels; title: Bitter bamboo; title: Non-fiction; title: Groaning shelves; title: Can Eve be reprieved?; title: Was sex necessary?; title: Chanel No. 1; title: The poor babies; title: Drawn to gypsies; title: Survivor/believer; title: Twice collected; title: Literary biography; title: Mud and flames; title: Incommensurability; title: The man in bed; title: Poet on the fault line; title: No brakes; title: A natural writer; title: Young Iris; title: Art; title: One obstinate survivor on another; title: Metropolitan art; title: Deceptively conceptual; title: Dürer's passions; title: The thing itself; title: The imaginary builder; title: Personal considerations; title: A tribute to Saul Steinberg; title: Introduction to the world of William Steig; title: Introduction to a section of the complete cartoons of The New Yorker; title: The would-be animator; title: Introduction to poor Arnold's almanac; title: Introduction to Chip Kidd: book one: 1986-2006; title: Foreword to the catalogue of my father's house (Will Barnet); title: A reminiscence of Hyman Bloom; title: Saint Nick: essay for the catalogue of George Nick: A retrospective; title: Foreword to the MFA publications edition of just looking; title: Foreword to the Stackpole Books edition of Buchanan dying; title: A "special message" for the Franklin library edition of Gertrude and Claudius; title: Prefacio to poemas 1953-1999; title: Foreword to humor in fiction; title: Foreword to the Easton press edition of licks of love; title: Note on "Bech Noir" for the best American mystery stories 1999; title: Note on "personal archeology" for the best American short stories 2001; title: Note on "the walk with Elizanne" for the best American short stories 2004; title: Comment on "your lover just called," in the anthology; title: This is my best; title: Recurrent characters; title: An interview conducted by Henry Bech; title: Foreword to my own bibliography; title: Three Brits (Tina Brown, Frank Kermode, André Deutsch); title: An account of my childhood reading; title: A response to a request from Michael Dirda; title: A response to GQ's request for my favorite year of the century; title: Summer love; title: The beautiful; title: A response to a request from a Miss Gordon; title: Early employments and inklings; title: My Philadelphia; title: A response to the question "why do I live in New England?"; title: A response to a request for a memory of Harvard Dorm life; title: Statement for there is no other story: ethics, literature, and theory; title: My contribution to the NPR series this I believe.