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.
- The charter conspiracy theory bubbles up again/From The Editor
- Just a coincidence?/Unequivocal Notion
- Meet the new lieutenant governor: deja vu all over again/Kevin Richert
- Stimuli in the states/Randy Stapilus
- How does wolf decision fit into climate change choices/Rocky Barker
- Wayne Hoffman's 6 cents/Red State Rebels
- MTV, I do not trust you/F-Words
- I toldja so, Obama/Morialekafa
- John Updike: 1932-2009/Political Game
- Loertscher: Idaho House highlights/Trish & Halli