Cultural References
- Updike was featured on the cover of Time twice, on 26 April 1968 and again on 18 October 1982.
- Updike was the subject of a "closed book examination" by Nicholson Baker, entitled U and I (1991). Baker discusses his wish to meet Updike and become his golf partner.
- The main character in the Eminem film 8 Mile (2002) is nicknamed "Rabbit" and has some similarities to Rabbit Angstrom. The film's soundtrack has a song titled "Rabbit Run".
- Portraits of Updike drawn by the American caricaturist David Levine appeared several times in The New York Review of Books.
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