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...atmosphere is very welcoming and outgoing," Shillington says. "We're not very technically or skill-oriented. Everyone's there to have...
...Born in Shillington, Penn. in 1932, Updike began submitting his work to national magazines, including the New Yorker, in high school. At Harvard, he wrote for the Harvard Lampoon...
...book opens in his hometown--Shillington, Pennsylvania--with Updike walking through the streets waiting for lost luggage and reminiscing. He introduces events and people from his childhood, cleverly returning to them throughout the work...
...love came early, prompted by the sensations and surroundings of childhood. Visiting Shillington, Updike unexpectedly finds himself at loose ends for a couple of hours and wanders about through a soft spring drizzle, trying to recapture his past. He enters familiar ground: "The street, the house where I had lived, seemed blunt, modest in scale, simple; this deceptive simplicity composed their precious, mystical secret, the conviction of whose existence I had parlayed into a career, a message to sustain a writer book after book." His first attempts to put this secret into words were, he gently suggests, sometimes misunderstood...
...1960s, to oppose U.S. involvement in Viet Nam, a stance that left him odd man out among friends, fellow authors and members of his children's generation: "Authority to these young people was Amerika, a bloodstained bugaboo to be crushed at any cost. To me, authority was the Shillington High School faculty, my father and his kindly and friendly, rather wan and punctilious colleagues, with whose problems and perspective I had had every opportunity to empathize...