Re: John Updike


Subject: Re: John Updike
From: Tim O'Connor (tim@roughdraft.org)
Date: Mon Jan 10 2000 - 18:59:03 EST


At 3:04 PM -0800 on 1/10/2000, Robbie wrote:

> I read or heard or saw somewhere that John Updike said something to the
> effect of "JD Salinger loves his characters more than God does." Where
> did I get this from? Am I making it up? Does anyone know the context?

It was from an essay (sorry, I don't have any more details, but I bet
Will will) Updike wrote about the Glass family. As usual, I have no
reference books with me, but I believe it's both cited in the
Salinger bibliography by Jack Sublette and in Warren French's books.

> (I hope to god (poetic license, not inconsistency) and from the very
> depths of my soul (ditto) that the digest works on the new server.
> Otherwise, I'm wasting time on all these messages. ;)

I tested it this morning; it worked; it disgorged all our silly test
messages. So now we begin with a clean slate.

--tim
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