John Updike: a study of the short fiction

pt. I. The short fiction

Poised on the threshold : The same door

Ceremonies of farewell : pigeon feathers

Transposing the music of reminiscence : the music school

Blocked art and Bygone Ardor : Beckʼs burden

The search for faded radiance : museums and women

Mapping marital fault lines : too far to go

The geometry of guilt : problems

The anatomy of betrayal : trust me

pt. II. The writer

Introduction

Interview with Charles T. Samuels

Interview with Charlie Reilly

Getting the words out

On being a self forever

The short story today

The creative imagination and the happiest Iʼve been

pt. III. The critics

Introduction

John Gerlach

Sanford Schwartz

R. B. Larsen

Eileen Baldeshwiler

Ramon Selden

Albert E. Wilhelm

Erica Jong

Jane Barnes

Chronology

Selected Bibliography

Index.