The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had. Yet, as these stories refl...

The John Updike Audio Collection

John Updike reads six stories he has selected from the 100-odd he has published. "A & P", recounting a moral crisis on the checkout counter, is his most anthologized story. "Pigeon Feathers", the longest story included, tells of a 14-year-old boy's f...

Selected Stories

A fantastic short story collection from critically acclaimed and bestselling author John Updike.

The Afterlife and Other Stories

A selection from the John Updike audio collection. These extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material...

Snowing in Greenwich Village

A selection from the John Updike audio collection.These extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material ...

The Family Meadow

Lifeguard

A selection from the John Updike audio collection.

The Persistence of Desire

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author on the value of creative writing, American Democracy, and science.  This essay comes from the NPR series This I Believe, which features brief personal reflections from both famous and unknown Americans. The pieces that make up the series compel listeners to rethink not only what and how they have arrived at their beliefs, but also the extent to which they share them with others.

Testing the Limits of What I Know and Feel

The theme of trust, betrayed or fulfilled, runs through this collection of short stories: Parents lead children into peril, husbands abandon wives, wives manipulate husbands, and time undermines all. Love pangs, a favorite subject of the author, take...

Trust Me

Golf is neither work nor play, John Updike tells us: "Golf is a trip."  Golf has been the subject of many books and the province of many experts, but few have written as sympathetically, or as knowingly, about the peculiar charms of bad golf and the ...

Golf Dreams

The young John Updike’s portrayal of a haughty seminary student working as a lifeguard is witty and poetic, as the naïve hero surveys the beachgoers in his care, and contemplates a future of saving souls as well as bodies.

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