6/7/2023 0 Comments S updike![]() ![]() Salman Rushdie famously said of him Somewhere in Las Vegas there’s probably a male prostitute called ‘John Updike’… He should stay in his parochial neighbourhood and write about wife-swapping, because it’s what he can do. Tom Wolfe, a man pretty well devoid of literary talent himself, called Updike and Mailer two piles of bones and those two and John Irving the Three Stooges. John Gardner likened his work to sermons and said that his work would die of fakery. ![]() Gore Vidal, justifiably, said that he had never taken him seriously as a writer and condemned him as a reactionary, two spot-on judgements. ![]() Critic James Wood described him as A writer of harmless, puffy lyricism, which puts it better than I could. This site has a few writers who, frankly, should not be here but are here because they have a reputation which well exceeds their literary abilities. ![]()
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