John Updike Came to Ipswich. He Took Very Careful Notes.

Nobody warned Ipswich what was coming. In 1957 a young writer with a contract from The New Yorker moved into a house on Labor-in-Vain Road and started paying very close attention to his neighbours. John Updike lived on the North Shore for seventeen years. He watched the dinner parties. The marriages
Read MoreT.S. Eliot Came to Gloucester. He Left With The Waste Land.

What are the roots that clutch, what branches grow out of this stony rubbish?T.S. Eliot wrote that in 1922. Most people assume he was describing some bleak corner of post-war Europe.He was describing Gloucester.Eliot spent his summers as a boy on Eastern Point, Cape Ann. The rocky outcrops. The Atla
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