John Updike

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....

The assumptions and obsessions that control our daily lives are explored in tantalizing detail by master novelist John Updike in this wise, witty, sexy story....

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....

In John Updike's fourth and final novel about ex-basketball player Harry "Rabbit" Angstrom, the hero has acquired heart trouble, a Florida condo, and a second grandchild....

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

Faith ultimately bursts into flame as Updike's major new novel, charting the lives of one family through four generations, shows listeners an America whose dream of perfection is translated into an obsession with God and the moving picture....

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

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....

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....

The theme of trust, betrayed or fulfilled, runs through this collection of short stories: Parents lead children into peril, husbands abandon wives, wives manipulate husbands....

The extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where....

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.

Nelson Algren reading from The Man With the Golden Arm, James Jones reading from The Thin Red Line....

The young John Updike’s portrayal of a haughty seminary student working as a lifeguard is witty and poetic....

More than three decades have passed since the events described in John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick....

Toward the end of the Vietnam era, in a snug little Rhode Island seacoast town, wonderful powers have descended upon Alexandra, Jane, and Sukie, bewitching divorcées with sudden access to all that is female, fecund, and mysterious....

Selected Shorts is an award-winning series of classic and contemporary short fiction read by acclaimed actors....

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

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

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