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• catalog abstract "John Updike's fiftieth book and fifth collection of assorted prose, most of it first published in The New Yorker, brings together eight years' worth of essays, criticism, addresses, introductions, humorous feuilletons, and-in a concluding section, "Personal Matters"--Paragraphs on himself and his work. More matter, indeed, in an age which, his introduction states, wants "real stuff-the dirt, the poop, the nitty gritty-and not-the obliquities and tenuosities of fiction." Still, the fiction writer's affectionate, shaping hand can be detected in many of these considerations. Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, Dawn Powell, Henry Green, John Cheever, Vladimir Nabokov, and W.M. Spackman are among the authors extensively treated, along with such more general literary matters as the nature of evil, the philosophical content of novels, and the wreck of the Titanic. Biographies of Isaac Newton and Queen Elizabeth II, Abraham Lincoln and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Benchley and Helen Keller, are reviewed, always with a lively empathy. Two especially scholarly disquisitions array twentieth-century writing about New York City and sketch the ancient linkage between religion and literature. An illustrated section contains sharp-eyed impressions of movies, photographs, and art. Even the slightest of these pieces can twinkle. Updike is a writer for whom print is a mode of happiness: he says of his younger self, "The magazine rack at the corner drugstore beguiled me with its tough gloss," and goes on to claim, "An invitation into print, from however suspect a source, is an opportunity to make something beautiful, to discover within oneself a treasure that would otherwise have remained buried."".
• catalog contributor b11220487.
• catalog contributor b11220488.
• catalog coverage "United States New York New York.".
• catalog created "1999.".
• catalog date "1999".
• catalog date "1999.".
• catalog dateCopyrighted "1999.".
• catalog description "De Bellis & Broomfield. John Updike, A172[a]".
• catalog description "Includes bibliographical references and index.".
• catalog description "John Updike's fiftieth book and fifth collection of assorted prose, most of it first published in The New Yorker, brings together eight years' worth of essays, criticism, addresses, introductions, humorous feuilletons, and-in a concluding section, "Personal Matters"--Paragraphs on himself and his work. More matter, indeed, in an age which, his introduction states, wants "real stuff-the dirt, the poop, the nitty gritty-and not-the obliquities and tenuosities of fiction." Still, the fiction writer's affectionate, shaping hand can be detected in many of these considerations. Herman Melville, Edith Wharton, Sinclair Lewis, Dawn Powell, Henry Green, John Cheever, Vladimir Nabokov, and W.M. Spackman are among the authors extensively treated, along with such more general literary matters as the nature of evil, the philosophical content of novels, and the wreck of the Titanic. Biographies of Isaac Newton and Queen Elizabeth II, Abraham Lincoln and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Robert Benchley and Helen Keller, are reviewed, always with a lively empathy. Two especially scholarly disquisitions array twentieth-century writing about New York City and sketch the ancient linkage between religion and literature. An illustrated section contains sharp-eyed impressions of movies, photographs, and art. Even the slightest of these pieces can twinkle. Updike is a writer for whom print is a mode of happiness: he says of his younger self, "The magazine rack at the corner drugstore beguiled me with its tough gloss," and goes on to claim, "An invitation into print, from however suspect a source, is an opportunity to make something beautiful, to discover within oneself a treasure that would otherwise have remained buried."".
• catalog description "Large matters: Matters of state -- Gender and health -- Literature -- Burglar alarm -- Glittering city -- Geographical, calendrical, topical -- Matter under review: Introductions -- American past masters -- North American contemporaries -- Overseas -- Other continents -- Medleys -- Biographies -- Things as they are -- Visible matter: Movies -- Photos -- Art -- Personal matters.".
• catalog extent "xxiii, 900 p. :".
• catalog hasFormat "More matter.".
• catalog identifier "0375406301".
• catalog isFormatOf "More matter.".
• catalog isReferencedBy "De Bellis & Broomfield. John Updike, A172[a]".
• catalog issued "1999".
• catalog issued "1999.".
• catalog language "eng".
• catalog publisher "New York : Knopf : Distributed by Random House,".
• catalog relation "More matter.".
• catalog spatial "United States New York New York.".
• catalog subject "814/.54 21".
• catalog subject "Character sketches.".
• catalog subject "Literature, Modern History and criticism.".
• catalog subject "PS3571.P4 M63 1999".
• catalog tableOfContents "Large matters: Matters of state -- Gender and health -- Literature -- Burglar alarm -- Glittering city -- Geographical, calendrical, topical -- Matter under review: Introductions -- American past masters -- North American contemporaries -- Overseas -- Other continents -- Medleys -- Biographies -- Things as they are -- Visible matter: Movies -- Photos -- Art -- Personal matters.".
• catalog title "More matter : essays and criticism / John Updike.".
• catalog type "Criticism, interpretation, etc. fast".
• catalog type "text".