John Updike

John Updike reads six stories he has selected from the 100-odd he has published....

The provocative novel about sex in suburbia, striking in its complete sexual frankness and rightly praised as an artful, seductive, savagely graphic portrayal of love, marriage, and adultery in America....

A selection from the John Updike audio collection....

A Selection from the John Updike audio collection....

A selection from the John Updike audio collection....

A selection from the John Updike audio collection....

A selection from the John Updike audio collection....

A selection from the John Updike audio collection....

A selection from the John Updike audio collection....

A fantastic short story collection from critically acclaimed and bestselling author John Updike....

A selection from the John Updike audio collection....

A stunning collection of poems that John Updike wrote during the last seven years of his life and put together only weeks before he died for this, his final book....

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author on the value of creative writing, American Democracy, and science....

The hero of John Updike's Rabbit, Run (1960), ten years after the hectic events described in Rabbit Redux (1971), has come to enjoy considerable prosperity as Chief Sales Representative of Springer Motors, a Toyota agency in Brewer, Pennsylvania....

Rabbit, Run is the book that established John Updike as one of the major American novelists of his - or any other - generation. Its hero is Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a onetime high-school basketball star who on an impulse deserts his wife and son....

John Updike's 21st novel, a bildungsroman, follows its hero, Owen Mackenzie, from his birth in the semi-rural Pennsylvania town of Willow to his retirement....

Gertrude and Claudius are the "villains" of Hamlet: he the killer of Hamlet’s father and usurper of the Danish throne; she his lusty consort, who marries Claudius before her late husband’s body is cold....

On a day that contains much conversation and some rain, the seventy-eight-year-old painter Hope Chafetz, who in the course of her eventful life has been Hope Ouderkirk, Hope McCoy, and Hope Holloway, answers questions put to her by a New York interviewer named Kathryn.

The Centaur is a modern retelling of the legend of Chiron, the noblest and wisest of the centaurs, who, painfully wounded yet unable to die, gave up his immortality on behalf of Prometheus....

John Updike will tell you, in his own voice and his own words, how he learned the game, plays the game, and loves the game....