John Updike Audio & Video

The preeminent short fiction series since 1915, The Best American Short Stories continues to dazzle and delight with its rich collection of talent, chosen each year by a distinguished master of the form.

Continuing and enhancing the Caedmon tradition of bringing the greatest literature to vibrant audio life, here are stories that have echoed though the years, brilliantly performed by an array of renowned actors, as well as the authors themselves.

A conversation with author John Updike about the anthology he edited called "The Greatest American Short Stories of This Century", his background in writing and the process of weeding through the great American writers of the past hundred years to compile the collection.

Author, novelist and literary critic John Updike will be our guest for In Depth on December 4th.

Author John Updike has died of lung cancer. He was 76 years old. Here are some of the conversations he had with Charlie over the years.

he extraordinarily evocative stories depict the generation born in a small-town America during the Depression and growing up in a world where the old sexual morality was turned around and material comforts were easily had.

John Updike talks about Terrorist.

Collected together for the first time on audio, these eighteen classic stories from across John Updike's career form a luminous chronicle of the life and times of one marriage in all its rich emotional complexity.

This was the late John Updike's first collection of new short fiction since the year 2000.

John Updike, a genius at creating uncannily vivid mirror images of American life, is at his best in this final episode of the extraordinary "Rabbit" saga.