TY - BOOK AU - Updike,John TI - Assorted prose SN - 039441473X U1 - 810 UPDDA PY - 1990///, c1965 CY - New York PB - Alfred A. Knopf KW - American prose literature KW - American literature KW - American essays N1 - The American man: what of him? --; Anywhere is where you hang your hat --; What is a rhyme? --; Drinking from a cup made cinchy --; On the sidewalk --; Why Robert Frost should receive the Nobel Prize --; Confessions of a wild bore --; The unread book route --; Alphonse Peintre --; Mr. Ex-resident --; Central Park --; No dodo --; Voices in the Biltmore --; Our own Baedeker --; Postal complaints --; Old and precious --; Spatial remarks --; Dinosaur egg --; Upright carpentry --; Crush vs. whip --; Métro gate --; Cancelled --; Morality play --; Obfuscating coverage --; Bryant Park --; John Marquand --; Two heroes --; Doomsday, Mass. --; Grandma Moses --; Spring rain --; Eisenhower's eloquence --; Mostly glass --; Three documents --; Free bee-hours --; Beer can --; Modern art --; The assassination --; T.S. Eliot --; The dogwood tree: a boyhood --; The lucid eye in silver town --; My uncle's death --; Outing: a family anecdote --; Mea culpa: a travel note --; Eclipse --; Poetry from downtroddendom --; Snow from a dead sky --; Franny and Zooey --; Credos and curios --; Beerbohm and others --; Rhyming Max --; No use talking --; Stuffed fox --; Honest horn --; Faith in search of understanding --; Tillich --; More love in the western world --; A foreword for young readers --; Creatures of the air --; Between a wedding and a funeral --; How how it is was --; Grandmaster Nabokov ER -