Lit Fans Bid Bun Adieu

Or
It’s Rabbit Season

Or
Rabbit at Rest in Peace – Mark
(Meritorious mention for Mark)

Or
Rabbit Fur Coded
(Accolades for Phil)
John Updike, champion of the insignificant, chronicler of suburban adultery, ghost writer for Krusty the Clown’s memoir “Your Shoes Are Too Big to Kickbox God” and former Boston University professor, has met the little death that awaits athletes; he has died, of cancer at the age of 76, and has a lyric little band box all to himself. Best remembered for his 4 novels about Harry “Rabbit” Angstrom, a middle class salesman who hates his job and his wife and whose life is traced across the major events of the century, Updike’s resume included 61 books and countless essays, short stories, poems and critiques, all written in a lyrical, detailed style. He also contributed The New Yorker’s best sports reporting, an essay on the baseball star Ted Williams’s last game, “Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu.” Early in his career, some suggested his Protestant faith kept him from receiving the Pulitzer, because God does not answer men of letters, but he eventually picked up a couple in 1982 and 1991.