June 4, 2015

Marcus Luttrell? Whodat???

(Scott Johnson) John Updike's numerous stories about his fictional alter ego Henry Bech are my favorites among Updike's body of work. When Bech wins the Nobel Prize for Literature in the story "Bech and the Bounty of Sweden," Updike posits the headline reporting the news in the New York Daily News: "BECH? WHODAT???" (The thought was at the same time self-deprecating and self-aggrandizing. Updike was foremost among those who deserved the Nobel

Source: Power Line