Shillington

•Shillington 24, Schuylkill Valley 5 (7): At Rulon L. Griffith Field, 16 different players got a hit as Shillington (1-0, 5-1) used a 10-run third inning en route to the seven-inning win.

Berks county news 2009

A remaining wall from the poorhouse that was the inspiration for the setting of Updike's first novel, "The Poorhouse Fair," can be found in Shillington, a tidy Reading suburb where Updike spent his early childhood.

Keystone to Updike's Imagination Anthony Paletta 2010

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

Shortly before the first of these personal essays was composed (but several years after the soft spring night in Shillington that it describes) I was told, perhaps in jest, of someone wanting to write my biography — to take my life, my lode of ore and heap of memories, from me!

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

What else to work with, growing up rural, in Shillington, PA?

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

Shortly before the first of these personal essays was composed (but several years after the soft spring night in Shillington that it describes) I was told, perhaps in jest, of someone wanting to write my biography — to take my life, my lode of ore and heap of memories, from me!

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

In 1980, Kidd was a middle-class high school sophomore in Shillington, Pa., where the Handbook "was like a bible to me, but more interesting than the Bible and with more drinking."

Book Buzz: 'Angelina,' 'Carrie Diaries' and 'True Prep' 2010

What else to work with, growing up rural, in Shillington, PA?

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

Reading itself, which "loomed for a Shillington child as an immense, remote, menacing, and glamorous metropolis," is a remarkably recognizable Brewer, with its depiction over the Rabbit series offering a nearly perfect rendering of the actual city's respectable past, attempts at renewal and hardscrabble present.

Keystone to Updike's Imagination Anthony Paletta 2010

American life, as everyman/schmuck Harry Angstrom lives and lusts and dies, and Shillington, PA, changes from an energetic small town into a plump, overstuffed suburb.

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