Transcript: Remembering John Updike, Master Of Fiction

SCOTT SIMON
NPR Weekend Edition - Saturday
01-31-2009
Remembering John Updike, Master Of Fiction

Host: SCOTT SIMON
Time 1:00-2:00 PM


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SCOTT SIMON, host:

Nobody put together words more lucidly, dreamily or sharply than John Updike. He died this week at the age of 76 after writing more than 22 novels, poems, short stories, essays and critiques. I'll miss the three or five more novels I'm sure he might have written, as even into old age he continued to grow and challenge himself.

Here are the opening lines from his 1960 novel, "Rabbit, Run."

(Reading) Boys are playing basketball around a telephone pole with the backboard bolted to it. Legs. Shouts. The scrape and snap of Keds on ...

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