... Al Lacy "Wettest County in the World" by Matt Bondurant "White Tiger" by Aravind Adiga "Widows of Eastwick" by John Updike Nonfiction: "American Journey of Barack Obama" by the editors of LIFE "Angler: The Cheney Vice Presidency" by ...

... reach a ruling.) Today's Birthdays: Actor Peter Graves is 82. Composer John Kander ("Chicago") is 81. Author John Updike is 76. Nobel peace laureate and former South African president F.W. de Klerk is 72. Country singer Charley Pride ...

... car troubles. His vision for a magazine promoting Southern literature and culture slowly evolved, and writers from John Updike to William Steig freely submitted their own works. After many years of turbulence, circling monetary issues and several ...

... Concentrated Universal Salvation." Among those whose works will be dramatized or featured are J.D. Salinger, John Updike, Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, Kafka, van Gogh, Rembrandt and Dr. Seuss. "And there are plenty of wonderful movies ...

... when I get them, but I don't sit around wringing my hands when I don't.'' Earlier, two-time award winner John Updike offered a bemused reading of a highly descriptive account by then-journalist Wolfe of Updike's 1964 acceptance speech ...

... Simon, Ray Bradbury, Peter Matthiessen, Norman Mailer, Eudora Welty, John le Carre, Saul Bellow, Toni Morrison, John Updike and Larry McMurtry. ------ PISCATAWAY, N.J. (AP) -- Paralyzed actor Christopher Reeve is encouraged by ...

... Perlman, and political personalities from Jimmy Carter and Hillary Rodham Clinton to Bob Dole and Nancy Reagan. "John Updike is one of the holders of the Fresh Air record, I think, maybe six times, because I've had him on for a lot of different ...

... Birthdays: Actor Peter Graves is 77. Author George Plimpton is 76. Composer John Kander ("Chicago") is 76. Author John Updike is 71. Nobel peace laureate and former South African president F.W. de Klerk is 67. Country singer Charley Pride ...

... story from his 1990 "The Things They Carried," which is a frequent selection in literary anthologies, including John Updike's "The Best American Short Stories of the Century." He will explain his literary technique in a lecture titled ...

... as good as yesterday's performance." In his 1960 essay "Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu," published in The New Yorker, John Updike said Gowdy sounded like "everybody's brother-in-law." Gowdy spent 15 years as the Boston Red Sox main play ...