John Updike's Childhood Home Will Become A Museum
via Reading Eagle:
The John Updike Society has signed an agreement to buy the late author's childhood home in Shillington, Penn., so that it can be turned into a museum.
The agreement is contingent on getting a zoning variance to turn the house into a historic site, though there's probably not much standing in the way of that. The home will end up costing the society $200,000--which, in this housing market, ain't too bad.
Updike, who wrote a ton of books and won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, lived at the house until he was 13. They don't have a date for opening yet, and since it's located in a residential neighborhood, it'll probably only be open to visitors by appointment, but still! For true Updike fans, it'll be a nice place to visit.
Incidentally, Updike originated my most favorite quote about New York City (which I'm planning to use as the epigraph for the book I'm writing): “The true New Yorker secretly believes that people living anywhere else have to be, in some sense, kidding.”
Anyone want to road-trip to this when it opens!?
News by Rob W. Hart
Rob W. Hart is the class director at LitReactor, as well as the associate publisher for MysteriousPress.com. He's the author of The Last Safe Place: A Zombie Novella, and his short stories have appeared in Shotgun Honey, Thuglit, Crime Factory, and Needle: A Magazine of Noir. He lives in New York City, and you can find his website at www.robwhart.com.
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Road trip? I'm up for that.