R.I.P.: John Updike

John Updike, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, prolific man of letters and erudite chronicler of sex, divorce and other adventures in the postwar prime of the American empire, died Tuesday at age 76.
Updike, a resident of Beverly Farms, Massachusetts, died of lung cancer, according to a statement from his publisher.
Death has taken many by surprise; as recently as November, he was touring in support of his latest novel, “The Widows of Eastwick.”
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John Updike’s Lifetime of Bad Sex

It’s not quite the Nobel Prize, but John Updike has a new literary accolade: laureate of bad sex.
Updike, who has a long and graphic history of detailing coupling on the page, won a lifetime achievement award Tuesday from judges of Britain’s Bad Sex in Fiction Prize, which celebrates crude, tasteless or ridiculous sexual passages in modern literature.
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