John Updike, R.I.P.

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/01/27/books/AP-Obit-Updike.html?hp

Sorry to see the news of Updike's death. I was a great fan. I liked him best the smaller the unit of consideration. He wrote some very good novels, but better short stories, and unsurpassed sentences. Unlike many great writers of sentences, his were grounded in the circumstances of the greater writing, and the greater world, whether natural or social, internal or external.