john updike, bless him

I have so many posts to upload my friends, but couldn't resist an Updike teaser.

This is the link to a fantastic interview with the man in The Paris Review:
http://www.parisreview.com/viewinterview.php/prmMID/4219

Here's my favorite bit, especially since I have just left New York for an indefinite amount of time:

INTERVIEWER

You seem to shun literary society. Why?

UPDIKE

I don’t, do I? Here I am, talking to you. In leaving New York
in 1957, I did leave without regret the literary demimonde of
agents and would-be’s and with-it nonparticipants; this world
seemed unnutritious and interfering. Hemingway described liter-
ary New York as a bottle full of tapeworms trying to feed on each
other. When I write, I aim in my mind not toward New York but
toward a vague spot a little to the east of Kansas. I think of the
books on library shelves, without their jackets, years old, and a
countryish teenaged boy finding them, and having them speak to
him.