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John Updike

The Liz Smith Column | 07/02/2009 11:00 pm

Liz Smith: The Beginning of the Jackson Afterlife Saga – But Leave the Kids out of It!

From fans and non-fans, the pleading question is already being asked: ‘Will there be no end to this?’

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A Friend Stopped By | 02/09/2009 11:00 pm

John Updike's Funeral: Revelations of a Double Life

The last chronicles of suburban adultery

By Roger Warner

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Cynthia McFadden | 02/08/2009 11:00 pm

Cynthia McFadden Disagrees With John Updike

I think Updike is wrong

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Liz Smith | 02/08/2009 11:00 pm

Liz Smith's Great Escape

Is reading a drug?

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Mary Wells | 02/08/2009 11:00 pm

Mary Wells Prefers Paper With Coffee

I like the Kindle for books — it is the morning newspaper I can’t give up with my coffee

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Joan Juliet Buck | 02/08/2009 11:00 pm

Joan Juliet Buck: Why the Kindle Can't Replace Books

A Kindle looks like something you find in an I.C.U.

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Jane Wagner | 02/08/2009 11:00 pm

Jane Wagner on the Kindle: All New Gizmos Are Criticized

Remember what they said about computers?

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Candice Bergen | 02/08/2009 11:00 pm

Candice Bergen: The Kindle's a Reading Savior

The Kindle may save reading from becoming extinct

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Sheila Nevins | 02/08/2009 11:00 pm

Sheila Nevins: Imagination Rules

Words go into your mind and fly away

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Joan Ganz Cooney | 02/08/2009 11:00 pm

Joan Ganz Cooney: 'Oldsters' Relish 'Print'

All of us oldsters tend to romanticize print and paper books and I am shamelessly one of them

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Marlo Thomas | 02/08/2009 11:00 pm

Why Marlo Thomas Calls Herself 'Old-Fashioned'

I’m an old-fashioned girl …

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Judith Martin | 02/08/2009 11:00 pm

Judith Martin: Kindle vs. Paper

What else does might the Kindle threaten?

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Question of the Day | 02/08/2009 11:00 pm

The late John Updike railed against digitization of books. Does the Kindle et al threaten the intimacy, sacredness of reading?

It’s print vs. pixel and Liz, Candice, Marlo, Sheila, Jane and the other wOw women tell us where they stand on the issue of the electronic book reader

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