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Idaho Blogs: John Updike, The Mensch

Mensch is Yiddish for a good person, and that's what I found author John Updike to be when I interviewed him on the phone a few years ago. Updike died (Tuesday) at the age of 76. I read a memoir he wrote in which he talked a lot about how he stuttered when he was a kid. At one point during my interview with him he lapsed into that stutter for only a word. I'll never forget the humanness of it: The great writer showing a small vulnerability/Mike Butts, 2C Etc.



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D.F. Oliveria started Huckleberries Online on Feb. 16, 2004. Oliveria's Sunday print Huckleberries is a past winner of the national Herb Caen Memorial Column contest.