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