Interview with John Updike

As you may already know, John Updike was a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist. He died of lung cancer early this year (Jan. 27). He was 76.

I'm posting here one of the last interviews with the author about the most-voted book for November, Terrorist.
http://www.npr.org/templates/player/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&t=1&islist=false&id=5479128&m=5480480

You might want to listen to it after reading the book!

November 20th

Hi!

I'd like to announce that our first reader is going to be "Terrorist" by John Updike.

We will be talking about it on Nov. 20th at 17:30 in Embajadores EOI.

Hope a great number of people can attend and enjoy a great discussion about Terrorism and American Society.

Welcome to the Book Club!

This year Cristina Sánchez and Ms Bermejo are going to continue with the Book Club meetings. For those interested, we are first going to meet in November. We are leaving here a list of suggested readers, which ones would you like to read? Do you have any recommendation?

Anybody interested in a good chat about English literature is welcomed, whether you are a student in Embajadores school or not.

SUGGESTED READERS FOR THE BOOK CLUB:

- Terrorist , by John Updike

- The Kite Runner, or A Thousand Splendid Suns (Podcasts) by Khaled Hosseini

- The Buddha of Suburbia, Hanif Kureishi

- The Curious Incident of the Dog at Midnight by Mark Haddon. Get audio!

- Things fall apart, Chinua Achebe (Podcast, Interwiew with the Nigerian writer)

- Revolutionary Road, Richard Yates (Movie Trailer)

- Disgrace, J.M. Coetzee, 1999 Booker Prize Winner (Literary Review)

- The Brief and Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, Junot Díaz. (Written interview with the author)

- No Great Mischief, Alistair MacLeod. (Canadian author) (Review; About the author)