Comments on: Updike on Books http://conversationalreading.com/updike-on-books/ Since 2004. The blog of the critic, writer, and editor, Scott Esposito Mon, 06 Feb 2012 14:34:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Dan Green http://conversationalreading.com/updike-on-books/#comment-1648 Dan Green Mon, 26 Jun 2006 22:46:32 +0000 http://conversationalreading.com/wordpress/2006/06/updike-on-books.html#comment-1648 Everyone, including especially Updike, needs to take a deep breath and look more closely at what Kevin Kelly had to say. "Digitizing" books applies mostly to nonfiction, particularly nonfiction that's long on "information." Almost all commentators on the digital future are quick to point out that novels will continue to be used in the old way and that the "wordstream" mostly flows right by works of fiction and other kinds of books where the kind of integrity Updike talks about is likely to be untouched. Everyone, including especially Updike, needs to take a deep breath and look more closely at what Kevin Kelly had to say. “Digitizing” books applies mostly to nonfiction, particularly nonfiction that’s long on “information.” Almost all commentators on the digital future are quick to point out that novels will continue to be used in the old way and that the “wordstream” mostly flows right by works of fiction and other kinds of books where the kind of integrity Updike talks about is likely to be untouched.

]]> By: it was a stark and dormy night http://conversationalreading.com/updike-on-books/#comment-1649 it was a stark and dormy night Mon, 26 Jun 2006 17:01:25 +0000 http://conversationalreading.com/wordpress/2006/06/updike-on-books.html#comment-1649 <strong>Oh, thats just lovely</strong> John Updike has been taking it on the chin lately for his lamentable Net clueness. I can understand the impatience of the impatient, but John still has a wonderful (even if it might be considered old fashioned) grasp of the relationship between... Oh, thats just lovely

John Updike has been taking it on the chin lately for his lamentable Net clueness. I can understand the impatience of the impatient, but John still has a wonderful (even if it might be considered old fashioned) grasp of the relationship between…

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