Journal

R.I.P. Rabbit

John Updike has passed away. [via The New York Times] He died of lung cancer.

I was never the biggest fan of his work, and it has been a long time since I’ve read the Rabbit Angstrom books, but I will never quite forget the muscular poeticism that had at that time left me quite enthralled. A modern great, and no matter one’s opinion of his work, we are surely the lesser for this loss.

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