Michael Agger, senior editor John Updike's Endpoint is a final burst of fluency from the New England master. Who else could spin a charming poem out of a trip to Best Buy to buy a new computer? "Brave world! Full Article at Slate

Richard Dawkins’s heart leaps up as high as any Romantic poet’s when he beholds a rainbow. But he has taken issue with Keats’s complaint that when scientists “unweave” a rainbow they spoil it. Full Article at Times Online

Alvernia University in Reading announced today it will host an innaugural John Updike Conference in October, an event that will bring scholars from around the world to the author's hometown to celebrate his legacy. Full Article at The Morning Call

Updike's boyhood hometown in Reading, Pa. , to host first Updike Society Conference at Alvernia University, promoting study of the award-winning author's literature and life. Full Article at PR Newswire

The Harvard Lampoon is the world's longest-running English-language humor magazine. Former members include luminaries such as John Updike, William Gaddis, Conan O'Brien and William Randolph Hearst. Full Article at Prefix

The 30,000 U.S. troops President Obama is launching at Afghanistan could fit comfortably inside Fenway Park, that "lyric little bandbox" of a baseball field, as John Updike so memorably described it, the home of my Boston Red Sox. Full Article at Huffington Post