Updike's fourth collection of memoirs, essays, talks, tributes, introductions and reviews; over 140 pieces, 919pp. including an index. Pieces on John Cheever, Franz Kafka, Iris Murdoch, Philip Roth, Muriel Spark, Edmund Wilson, as well as 'Beauty', 'Mother', 'National Monuments', 'Spirituality' and 'Women'; inscribed by John Updike.
