John Updike - More Matter: 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 : The Burglar Alarm (part I), The Twelve Terrors of Christmas, That Syncing Feeling, Paranoid Packaging, Hostile Haircuts, Glad Rags, Addressing the Scandal Glut, Car Talk, Legendary Lana, Genial, Kinetic Gene Kelly, Cartoon Magic, Christmas Cards, Me and My Books, A Note on Narayan, TV in NYC, Amazon.com, the tributes to William Shawn and Brendan Gill, and sixty-one of the book reviews, including eight published as Briefly Noted.

THE NEW YORK REVIEW OF BOOKS : Nadars Swift Tact, Big, Bright, and Bendayed, Verminous Pedestrians and Car-Tormented Streets, Funny Faces, and the introductions to Edith Whartons The Age of Innocence and Sren Kierkegaards The Seducers Diary.

THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW : Lust, People Fits, Nightmares and Daymares, Sirins Sixty-Five Shimmering Short Stories, and The Flamingo-Pink Decade.

THE NEW YORK TIMES MAGAZINE : A Childhood Transgression.

THE NEW YORK TIMES : The Gentlemen of Summer.

THE LONDON SUNDAY TIMES : On the Edge of the Post-Human and The Short Story and I.

THE NEW REPUBLIC : Fast Art and Cheever on the Rocks.

ART & ANTIQUES : An Ecstatic State, The Revealed and the Concealed, Fun Furniture, and Acts of Seeing.

ARCHITECTURAL DIGEST : Part II of The Burglar Alarm (as Spat).

MIRABELLA : The Sistine Chapel Ceiling and The Frick.

VOGUE : Women Dancing and Henry Bech Interviews Updike.

ALLURE : Get Thee Behind Me, Suntan.

PLAYBOY : M.M. in Brief and The Vargas Girl.

MICHIGAN QUARTERLY : The Disposable Rocket.

FORBES : The State of the Union, as of March 1992, and Five Remembered Moments of Reading Bliss.

NEW CHOICES : Letter to a Baby Boomer.

NEWSWEEK : The Fifties.

CHICAGO : Freedom and Equality: Two American Bluebirds, also published as a booklet by the Illinois Humanities Council.

ISLANDS : The Vineyard Remembered.

USAIR MAGAZINE : Home in New England (second part).

HOGANS ALLEY : My Cartooning.

MEDIA EXCHANGE : Reflections on Radio.

TIME INC.: Bodies Beautiful.

LIFE : A Bookish Boy and Remembering Pearl Harbor.

CIVILIZATION : Descent of an Image.

AMERICAN HERITAGE : Facing Death.

AMERICA : Accepting the Campion Medal.

WALLACE STEVENS JOURNAL : Stevens as Dutchman.

THE PARIS REVIEW : Humor These Days.

LUFTHANSA BORDBUCH : Print: A Dialogue and One Big Bauble.

THE TOKYO-JIN : On the Edge.

VEJA : The Sun the Other Way Around.

FOLHA DE S. PAULO : The Cold.

DER SPIEGEL : The Old Movie Houses.

FRANKFURTER RUNDSCHAU : Samson and Delilah and Me.

DIE ZEIT : A Womans Burden.

LE NOUVELLE OBSERVATEUR : Remembering Reading Don Quixote.

WORLD ALMANAC : The Ten Greatest Works of Literature, 10012000.

THE IRISH TIMES : Undelivered Remarks upon Awarding the 1992 GPA Book Award in Dublin.

LONDON OBSERVER : An Hour of the Day.

ANTAEUS : Updike and I.

NEW LETTERS : Remarks on Religion and Contemporary American Literature.

HOUGHTON MIFFLIN : Introduction to The Best American Short Stories 1984 and notes on A Sandstone Farmhouse, Playing with Dynamite, and My Father on the Verge of Disgrace.

VIKING PENGUIN : Introductions to Surviving: The Uncollected Writings of Henry Green and to Writers at Work: The Paris Review Interviews, edited by George Plimpton.

RANDOM HOUSE : V, in Hockneys Alphabet, and the introduction to The Writers Desk, by Jill Krementz.

WESTMINSTER JOHN KNOX PRESS : Religion and Literature, in The Religion Factor.

LION PUBLISHING : Introduction to The Song of Solomon.

HARPERCOLLINS : Golf in the Land of the Free, an introduction to Golf: The Greatest Game.

PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS : Introduction to The Seducers Diary, by Sren Kierkegaard.

EVERYMANS LIBRARY : Introduction to The Complete Shorter Fiction of Herman Melville.

FAWCETT BOOKS : Introduction to The Age of Innocence, by Edith Wharton.

AURUM PRESS : Introduction to Writers on Writers, compiled by Graham Tarrant.

ANDRE DEUTSCH LTD .: Introduction to Heroes and Anti-Heroes.

DISNEY CONSUMER PRODUCTS : Introduction to The Art of Mickey Mouse, edited by Craig Yoe and Janet Morra-Yoe.

JOHN DANIEL & CO. : Introduction to My Well-Balanced Life on a Wooden Leg, by Al Capp.

DELL BOOKS : Introduction to House of God, by Samuel Shem.

WHITNEY MUSEUM : Introduction to The First Picture BookEveryday Things for Babies, by Mary Steichen Calderone and Edward Steichen.

ART INSTITUTE OF CHICAGO : A Case of Monumentality from Transforming Vision: Writers on Art, edited by Edward Hirsch.

SHINCHOSHA INC. : Introduction to my Self-Selected Stories.

GALLIMARD : Foreword to the French translation of Facing Nature.

EUROGRAPHICA : Foreword to Love Factories