In a conversation with NYT Book Review editor Sam Tanenhaus, John Updike uses an intriguing neologism to describe Obama’s social skills. Updike thinks that the president-elect displays a certain “reaching-outness” (approx. 3:50 in the following video). – How would you spell it, with or without the hyphen? Or put another hyphen in front of “ness”?
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24 Januar 2009
Adventures in the Tulgey Wood 
30 Januar 2009 at 7:48 am
the loss of John Updike makes me wonder if the literary world is being replenished at the same rate that it’s losing such great writers