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Odd Jobs
 

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Non-Fiction
Criticism & Commentary

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1 1991-00-00 Alfred A. Knopf  

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This is Updike"s fourth collection of nonfiction, or "odd literary jobs," as he calls them: "the prefaces and puffs, the "few paragraphs" on beauty or baseball -- that a persevering writer, aging into a shaky celebrity, gets increasingly asked to do." There are short notices, a travel piece, and occasional pieces on assigned topics like fiction, women, national monuments, popular music, New York architecture, being on TV, and speeches. But mostly there are essays and reviews, a few on science or technical topics, but generally literary: from tributes to Edmund Wilson and John Cheever, to reflections on Matthew"s Gospel or the criticism of Q.D. Leavis, to reviews of Roth, Murdoch, Shaw, Ecco, and many others. An appendix of comments on his own works ends the book.
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