What is it with authors dying lately?:
John Updike http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/27/AR2009012703553.html
David Foster Wallace http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-wallace14-2008sep14,0,246155.story
When I was in seventh grade my English class had to write a book report on an author from Pennsylvania. Since the internet didn't exist back then and I had only ever consistently read one or two authors of teen suspense books (i.e. R. L. Stine and Christopher Pike) -- it was not easy for me to find a PA author.
One Sunday at my grandparents' house, a friend of the family who taught English at a college down near Philadelphia suggested that I try John Updike, if it wasn't too mature for me. Despite the length of his books, twice as long as what I was used to back then, I fixated on John Updike. I found a copy of "The Witches of Eastwick" at Walden Books in the Laurel Mall. I was happy it was about witches and became even more interested when it turned out the witches had very active sex lives. It made for an ackward 7th grade book report but I was glad to have found out about John Updike...and am sorry he's gone. One of my favorite short stories by him: "A&P"
Ciao Rabbit.
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Ahahaha... I think I will pick up a copy of The Witches of Eastwick... sounds very intriguing.
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leyla
ok, i'm slow, but i totally hadn't heard that david foster wallace had died!
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