John Updike Audio & Video

Before they were the widows of Eastwick, our heroines were a trio of delightfully wicked witches in this hexy, sexy novel by the incomparable John Updike.

In this generous 3-hour interview provided on streaming video by BookTV, John Updike talks about his life as a writer and observer of the human condition.

he extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had.

A conversation with author John Updike about the anthology he edited called "The Greatest American Short Stories of This Century", his background in writing and the process of weeding through the great American writers of the past hundred years to compile the collection.

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

Continuing and enhancing the Caedmon tradition of bringing the greatest literature to vibrant audio life, here are stories that have echoed though the years, brilliantly performed by an array of renowned actors, as well as the authors themselves.

Collected together for the first time on audio, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity.

Author John Updike has died of lung cancer. He was 76 years old. Here are some of the conversations he had with Charlie over the years.

From John Updike to Sarah Orne Jewett to James Thurber, New England has been home and muse to many...

An extraordinary novel from multiple award winner John Updike--the story of 18-year-old Ahmad, whose devotion to Allah and the sacred words of the Qur'an, as revealed to him by the local imam, leads him to commit himself to an act of terror.