Updike Embraced Reality

John Updike often looked well at the reality around him and often interpreted it carefully.
He sometimes preserved selected pieces of reality to show us with gentle force.
He did that looking, careful interpreting and preserving in many places and in amazing number of the ways available to a writer.
What he may have done best is, look middle America full in the face and tell us honestly what he saw there.
He often saw and wrote with practiced genius.
He surely wrote a lot.