Contents: Five days in Finland at the age of fifty-fve -- The parade -- First wives and trolley cars -- Your lover just called: a playlet -- Being on TV I -- Being on TV II -- Books into film -- A nameless rose -- Overboard on Overboard -- Fictional houses -- Can architecture be criticized? -- Is New York City inhabitable? -- A sense of transparency -- A short and happy ride -- Women -- Mother -- The female body -- Beauty -- Spirituality -- The Fourth of July -- Our national monuments -- The importance of fiction -- High art versus popular culture -- Popular music -- The Boston Red Sox, as of 1986 -- Ted Wiliams, as of 1986 -- Edmund Wilson -- Mr. Volente -- Mr. Palomar -- John Cheever I -- John Cheever II -- John Cheever III -- John Cheever IV -- How does the state imagine? -- How does the writer imagine? -- Should writers give lectures? -- Emersonianism -- Howells as anti-novelist -- To Indian summer, by Wiliam Dean Howells -- To Nature's diary, by Mikhail Prishvin -- To The complete stories, by Franz Kafka -- To Seven gothic tales, by Isak Dineson -- To Appointment in Samarra, by John O'Hara -- To The power and the glory, by Graham Greene -- To Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, by Karl Barth -- The gospel according to St. Matthew -- Many Bens -- The ugly duckling -- The heartless man -- The virtues of playing cricket on the village green -- Twisted apples -- The sinister sex -- Cohn's doom -- Summonses, indictments, extenuating circumstances -- Back in Midland City -- Last blague -- What you deserve is what you get -- Beattieniks -- Leaving home -- No more Mr. Knightleys -- Louise in the new world, Alice on the magic molehill -- Doing his thing -- Yahweh over Dionysus, in disputed decision -- Bound to please -- Wrestling to be born -- And nothing but -- Art and artillery -- Between Pinget's ears -- Illuminating reversals -- Michael Tournier -- Small packages -- Baggy monsters -- Expeditions to Gilead and Seegard -- Back tot he classics -- Genius without cause -- Among the masters -- To the Arctic -- Lost among the romantics -- A romp with job -- Spark but no spark -- Bad neighbors -- The Jones boys -- Seeking connections in an insecure country -- Living death -- Latin strategies -- The great Paraguayan novel and other hardships -- Resisting the big boys -- How the other half lives -- Out of the evil empire -- Russian delinquents -- Visiting the land of the free -- Doubt and difficulty in Leningrad and Moscow -- Chronicles and processions -- Satan's work and stilted cisterns -- Three tales from Nigeria -- Chinese disharmonies -- In love with the West -- Far-fetched -- As others see us -- Studies in Post-Hitlerian self-condemnation in Austria and West Germany -- Rational faith -- Mutability and gloire -- Dutchmen and Turks -- Levels and levels -- A pair of parrots -- Memory palaces -- In dispraise of the powers that be -- Ungreat lives -- Old world wickedness -- VN again and again -- Nice tries -- The flaming chalice -- Ecolalia -- In Borges's wake -- Modernist, postmodernist, what will they think of next? -- States of mind -- Final fragments -- Slogging Sammy -- Still stirring -- Still staring -- Writer-consciousness -- A materialist look at eros -- A long way home -- The local view -- Hymn to tilth -- Damp and dull -- Empire's end -- Schulz's charred scraps -- The process and the lock -- Eliot without words -- Goody Sergeant,; the powerful Katrinka ; K.S.W. -- Witty Dotty -- Was B.B. a crook? -- The bimbo on the barge -- Something substantial and useful about it -- Bull in a type shop -- Art's dawn -- Computer heaven -- Evolution be praised -- Deep time and computer time -- Appendix: literarily personal -- Index

Control code: 23767234

Dimensions: 25 cm

Edition: 1st ed.

Extent: xxii, 919 pages

Isbn: 9780679404149

Lccn: 91052738

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Label: Odd jobs : essays and criticism, John Updike

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New York, Knopf | Distributed by Random House, 1991

Bibliography note: Includes bibliographical references and index

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Contents: Five days in Finland at the age of fifty-fve -- The parade -- First wives and trolley cars -- Your lover just called: a playlet -- Being on TV I -- Being on TV II -- Books into film -- A nameless rose -- Overboard on Overboard -- Fictional houses -- Can architecture be criticized? -- Is New York City inhabitable? -- A sense of transparency -- A short and happy ride -- Women -- Mother -- The female body -- Beauty -- Spirituality -- The Fourth of July -- Our national monuments -- The importance of fiction -- High art versus popular culture -- Popular music -- The Boston Red Sox, as of 1986 -- Ted Wiliams, as of 1986 -- Edmund Wilson -- Mr. Volente -- Mr. Palomar -- John Cheever I -- John Cheever II -- John Cheever III -- John Cheever IV -- How does the state imagine? -- How does the writer imagine? -- Should writers give lectures? -- Emersonianism -- Howells as anti-novelist -- To Indian summer, by Wiliam Dean Howells -- To Nature's diary, by Mikhail Prishvin -- To The complete stories, by Franz Kafka -- To Seven gothic tales, by Isak Dineson -- To Appointment in Samarra, by John O'Hara -- To The power and the glory, by Graham Greene -- To Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, by Karl Barth -- The gospel according to St. Matthew -- Many Bens -- The ugly duckling -- The heartless man -- The virtues of playing cricket on the village green -- Twisted apples -- The sinister sex -- Cohn's doom -- Summonses, indictments, extenuating circumstances -- Back in Midland City -- Last blague -- What you deserve is what you get -- Beattieniks -- Leaving home -- No more Mr. Knightleys -- Louise in the new world, Alice on the magic molehill -- Doing his thing -- Yahweh over Dionysus, in disputed decision -- Bound to please -- Wrestling to be born -- And nothing but -- Art and artillery -- Between Pinget's ears -- Illuminating reversals -- Michael Tournier -- Small packages -- Baggy monsters -- Expeditions to Gilead and Seegard -- Back tot he classics -- Genius without cause -- Among the masters -- To the Arctic -- Lost among the romantics -- A romp with job -- Spark but no spark -- Bad neighbors -- The Jones boys -- Seeking connections in an insecure country -- Living death -- Latin strategies -- The great Paraguayan novel and other hardships -- Resisting the big boys -- How the other half lives -- Out of the evil empire -- Russian delinquents -- Visiting the land of the free -- Doubt and difficulty in Leningrad and Moscow -- Chronicles and processions -- Satan's work and stilted cisterns -- Three tales from Nigeria -- Chinese disharmonies -- In love with the West -- Far-fetched -- As others see us -- Studies in Post-Hitlerian self-condemnation in Austria and West Germany -- Rational faith -- Mutability and gloire -- Dutchmen and Turks -- Levels and levels -- A pair of parrots -- Memory palaces -- In dispraise of the powers that be -- Ungreat lives -- Old world wickedness -- VN again and again -- Nice tries -- The flaming chalice -- Ecolalia -- In Borges's wake -- Modernist, postmodernist, what will they think of next? -- States of mind -- Final fragments -- Slogging Sammy -- Still stirring -- Still staring -- Writer-consciousness -- A materialist look at eros -- A long way home -- The local view -- Hymn to tilth -- Damp and dull -- Empire's end -- Schulz's charred scraps -- The process and the lock -- Eliot without words -- Goody Sergeant,; the powerful Katrinka ; K.S.W. -- Witty Dotty -- Was B.B. a crook? -- The bimbo on the barge -- Something substantial and useful about it -- Bull in a type shop -- Art's dawn -- Computer heaven -- Evolution be praised -- Deep time and computer time -- Appendix: literarily personal -- Index

Control code: 23767234

Dimensions: 25 cm

Edition: 1st ed.

Extent: xxii, 919 pages

Isbn: 9780679404149

Lccn: 91052738

Media category: unmediated

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