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INTERVIEWER
You seem to shun literary society. Why?
UPDIKE
I don’t, do I? Here I am, talking to you. In leaving New York in 1957, I did leave without regret the literary demimonde of agents and would-be's and with-it nonparticipants; this world seemed unnutritious and interfering. Hemingway described literary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each other. When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. I think of the books on library shelves, without their jackets, years old, and a countryish teenaged boy finding them, and having them speak to him.
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| Authors Mentioned |
| Guillaume Apollinaire, John Barth, Donald Barthelme, Saul Bellow, Jorge Luis Borges, Robert Frost, Henry Green, Ernest Hemingway, Norman Mailer, Henry Miller, Vladimir Nabokov, Ezra Pound, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Nathalie Sarraute, Diana Trilling, James Agee, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, T. S. Eliot, Homer, Henry James, James Joyce, D. H. Lawrence, Herman Melville, John O'Hara, Samuel Richardson, J. D. Salinger, William Shakespeare, George Bernard Shaw, Muriel Spark, Mark Twain |
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