![]() ![]() Updike might not be front of mind these days but he’s truly a great writer and deserves. ![]() from Bookbub, the remainder table of the digital economy. Roth never received the Nobel Prize that he had doubtless earned and Updike showed up as a character in HBO’s Julia, just as the Middlebrow had downloaded his 1988 novel, S. Updike, Bellow, Mailer and Roth are all gone now. ![]() I notice that Wallace also spared Thomas Pynchon, a more experimental writer and often more interesting, but definitely a peer of the GMNs. David Foster Wallace shellacked John Updike’s novel Toward the End of Time calling it the worst of the author’s work to have ever been published and extending his attack to all of the previous generation of literary greats that my professor had mentioned, though Wallace left Saul Bellow out of the camp of “ the Great Male Narcissists. ![]() They wrote and published into the 21st century, chronicling a changing country from that “self-actualized” point of view that seemed to dominate the post-World War II decades.Īround the time my professor worried, we were all reading Infinite Jest, which was published in 1996. Back in college, and it seems so long ago now, a theatre history professor who The Middlebrow liked a lot lamented on behalf of all the hopeful young novelists in the room and in the world that the greats of his generation, “Updike, Bellow, Mailer and Roth” would not step out of the way. ![]()
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