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...In the 1920s and ’30s, Imperial Airways used to hand out the latest Hemingway or F Scott Fitzgerald novels....
...I’m currently working on Scott Kupor’s Secrets of Sand Hill Road. Scott is a partner at Andreessen Horowitz, one of the best-known funds, and he explains how and why investors make certain decisions....
...John Updike’s novel Rabbit is Rich , set during the second oil shock of the 1970s, is a portrait of America racked by anxiety over energy....
...Neither Charles Dickens nor George Orwell nor F Scott Fitzgerald even lived to that age. This trend is not universal....
...Putting Myra Breckinridge on a par with John Updike’s Couples and Philip Roth’s Portnoy’s Complaint is likely to remain an assessment shared only by Vidal himself, who once declared in an essay on F Scott...
...(Although perhaps not as high as when F Scott Fitzgerald was paid $4,000 by the Saturday Evening Post for a single short story in the 1920s.)...
...Updike mocked what he called Fitzgerald’s “eternal undergraduate effluvium”....
...John Updike and Philip Roth pop their heads in once or twice to make a passing remark; Joan Didion, Alfred Kazin and Lionel Trilling make equally brief appearances to offer much-quoted aperçus....
...But it is a price that people seem willing to pay for living the suburban dream – and the nightmares so exquisitely explored in the novels of John Updike, Richard Ford and Richard Yates – or accept because...
...Scott Brown, the Republican who stormed the Democratic citadel that was Ted Kennedy’s Massachusett’s Senate seat introduced himself thus: “I’m Scott Brown. I’m from Wrentham. I drive a [pick-up] truck....
...My Father’s Tears and Other Stories By John Updike Hamish Hamilton, £18.99 Updike, the great storyteller of Wasp America and twice Pulitzer Prize-winner, died in January this year....
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