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  • The remaining Olinger stories perform variations on the themes of these two stories, to greater or lesser effect, but ultimately work, at best, to sketch out the overall portrayal of Olinger and its influence on David/Clyde/John Updike.

    Updike, John 2010

  • The Olinger stories, however, are relentlessly autobiographical, so much so that when taken together their value as literary art, as fictional creations with full aesthetic integrity, is somewhat less than I expected it to be.

    Updike, John 2010

  • Whereas the first section, "Olinger Stories," (a discussion of which can be found here) is worth reading as a whole because of its portrayal of Olinger (a fictionalized version of Updike's home town), the second can probably be read selectively, focusing on the better stories and skipping over the less substantial.

    Updike, John 2010

  • Probably the best-known story among the group of Olinger stories is "Pigeon Featherss," the title story of Updike's second collection, published in 1962.

    Updike, John 2010

  • This is all that happens, but it makes the narrator "happy" that she "had trusted me enough to fall asleep beside me," as does his friend, Neil, as the narrator later drives away from Olinger.

    Updike, John 2010

  • Stacie Schubert, spokeswoman for sponsor Olinger Mortuaries and

    Heroes or Villains? 2010

  • The point, to me, is plain, and is the point, more or less, of all these Olinger stories.

    January « 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • No, as was observed of a character in his late short story "Lunch Hour," for Updike "the basic treasure of his life was buried back there, in the town of Olinger, and he kept trying to uncover it."

    Keystone to Updike's Imagination Anthony Paletta 2010

  • The point, to me, is plain, and is the point, more or less, of all these Olinger stories.

    john updike | march 18, 1932 – january 27, 2009 « poetry dispatch & other notes from the underground 2009

  • The first section of the book is dedicated to the "Olinger stories," written between 1954 and 1961 and clearly based on Updike's own youth in Shillington, Pennsylvania.

    Updike, John 2010

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