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, his 1989 memoir-of-sorts. The book is fairly representative: it’s an unabashed hymn to Updikehood, a finely recorded bout of nostalgia, a cheerful philosophical riff, and a masterwork of English prose. To Updike’s critics, the memoir reads like an exercise in self-indulgence. James Wood claimed it was easier for Updike to “stifle a yawn than refrain from writing a book.” His fans, however, find it enchanting. The author’s memories awaken us to the treasures hiding in plain sight—the equivalent of glimpsing a coral reef in an otherwise mossy small-town pond. Pennsylvania grade school, Christian prayer, TV jingles, doubts, desires—he wrote about anything he considered “synonymous with being.” “Be

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