Archives for April 4, 2018

John Updike is interviewed by Al Page on Upon Reflection, originally telecast in 1989 by UWTV, the University of Washington’s television station:

(This is the latest in a series of arts-related videos that appear in this space each Monday, Wednesday, and Friday)

“We talk, by a sort of habit, about Modern Thought, forgetting the familiar fact that moderns do not think. They only feel, and that is why they are so much stronger in fiction than in facts; why their novels are so much better than their newspapers.”

G.K. Chesterton, “The Trouble with Our Pagans” (Illustrated London News, September 13, 1930)