John Updike - Due Considerations: Essays and Criticism

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following magazines and publishers, who first printed the pieces specified, sometimes under different titles and in slightly different form:

THE NEW YORKER: Sixty of the sixty-two book reviews, plus Back from China, A Sense of Change, The Future of Faith, Invisible Cathedral, Late Works, Early Employments and Inklings, Magnum Opus, and Talk of the Town pieces on William Maxwell (Maxwell's Touch), John F. Kennedy, Jr., and the September 11, 2001, World Trade Center disaster.

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS: A Tribute to Saul Steinberg, Drer's Passions, The Thing Itself, The Imaginary Builder, On Literary Biography (as One Cheer for Literary Biography), and introductions to Seven Men, The Eighth Day, The Portrait of a Lady, The Blithedale Romance, The Golden West, and Is Sex Necessary?

THE NEW YORK TIMES: A Case for Books (as Books, Stay Yet a While), Looking Back to Now, Ted Williams (as The Batter Who Mattered), interview by Henry Bech (as Questions of Character: There's No Wounded Ego like a Wounded Superego), and An Account of My Childhood Reading.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW: Metropolitan Art.

LONDON TIMES: Property and Presumption.

NEW YORK: West 155th Street.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN: Notes to three short stories chosen for a Best collection.

UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH CAROLINA PRESS: On Literary Biography, as a small book printed in an edition of five hundred.

FORBES PUBLICATIONS: The Tried and the Treowe and Ten Epochal Moments in the American Libido.

NATURAL HISTORY: A Layman's Scope.

OUTSIDE: Hydrophobia.

LIFE: My Life in Poker and Summer Love.

ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST: My Life in Cars.

SDDEUTSCHE ZEITUNG: William Shawn.

PUBLIC AFFAIRS: The New Yorker in American Greats, edited by Robert Wilson.

proceedings of the american academy of arts and letters: The Academy As It Was and Is and the memorial tribute to Wright Morris.

YALE UNIVERSITY PRESS: Ernest Hemingway, in American Characters: Selections from the National Portrait Gallery, Accompanied by Literary Portraits, edited by R.W.B. Lewis and Nancy Lewis.

THE OXFORD AMERICAN: Note on Eudora Welty.

BOSTON GLOBE: 11/22/63.

EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY: Preface to The Mabinogion; contribution to There Are Kermodians.

THE MODERN LIBRARY: Introduction to The Blithedale Romance.

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS: Introduction to Walden.

OXFORD UNIVERSITY PRESS: Introduction to The Portrait of a Lady.

HESPERUS PRESS LTD.: Forewords to The Diary of Adam and Eve and OtherAdamic Stories and The Rich Boy.

HARPERCOLLINS: Introductions to new editions of The Eighth Day, The Letters of E. B. White, and Is Sex Necessary?

DAVID R. GODINE, PUBLISHER: Introduction to The Golden West: HollywoodStories.

THE LIBRARY OF AMERICA: Introduction to Karl Shapiro: Selected Poems.

POMEGRANATE COMMUNICATIONS INC.: Introduction to Elephant House, or,The Home of Edward Gorey.

RANDOM HOUSE: Introduction to Christmas at The New Yorker: Stories, Poems,Humor, and Art.

BLACK DOG & LEVENTHAL: Introduction to the 195564 section of The Complete Cartoons of The New Yorker.

ABRAMS: Thurber's Art, in Cartoon America: Comic Art in the Library of Congress; introduction to Wolf Kahn's America.

ARTISAN: Introduction to The World of William Steig.

LORD JOHN PRESS: The Would-Be Animator in Lord John Film Festival; foreword to Humor in Fiction.

FANTAGRAPHICS: Introduction to Poor Arnold's Almanac.

RIZZOLI: Introduction to Chip Kidd: Book One: 19862006.

MONTSERRAT COLLEGE OF ART: Foreword to My Father's House, catalogue of a show by Will Barnet.

HARVARD REVIEW: A Reminiscence of Hyman Bloom.

MFA PUBLICATIONS: Foreword to their edition of Just Looking.

STACKPOLE BOOKS: Foreword to their edition of Buchanan Dying.

FRANKLIN LIBRARY: Special Message for their edition of Gertrude andClaudius.

PRE-TEXTOS: Preface to Poemas 19531999.

EASTON PRESS: Foreword to their edition of Licks of Love.

QUALITY PAPERBACK CLUB: Comment on Your Lover Just Called, in the anthology This Is My Best.

INSIDE BORDERS: Recurrent Characters.

OAK KNOLL PRESS: Foreword to my own bibliography.

YALE LITERARY MAGAZINE: Who Have Been Your Masters?

BOOK WORLD: Comment on Books that Serve as Comfort.

GQ: Comment on My Favorite Year.

ALLURE: The Beautiful.

PHILADELPHIA: My Philadelphia.

THE IMPROPER BOSTONIAN: Why Do I Live in New England?

THOMSON CUSTOM PUBLISHING: Statement for There Is No Other Story:Ethics, Literature, and Theory.

NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: This I Believe.

Grateful acknowledgment is made to the following for permission to reprint previously published material:

AGENCIA LITERARIA CARMEN BALCELLS: Excerpt from En una calle de Crdoba by lvaro Mutis. Reprinted by permission of Agencia Literaria Carmen Balcells.

HAROLD OBER ASSOCIATES: Excerpt from The Irenicon from Poems