News about John Updike

At the age of 94, the author of Unbearable Lightness of Being died at his Parisian home. According to a Milan Kundera Library spokesperson, Milan Kundera (pictured), whose dark, provocative books debating the human condition, died in Paris, France, on Tuesday. 'Unfortunately, I can say that Mr Milan Kundera died yesterday after a long illness,' she told AFP. Kundera died at his apartment in Paris, France, his adopted country in which he had resided since his emigration from Communist-ruled Czechoslovakia in 1975. 'Not only Czech literature, but also world literature has lost one of the greatest contemporary writers, as well as one of the most translated writers,' Tomas Kubicek, the Kundera library's director, told the public Czech television.

The Missus, E. L. James' latest book, focuses on the misogynistic union between a British aristo (Maxim) and his sex-trafficked Albanian cleaner (Alessia). While women should avoid anything that smacks of obedience to a male figure, feminist writer Lisa Hilton claims that while reading about it is enthralling.

Dating a romantic novelist has its advantages and disadvantages. I tend to fling myself into relationships with marginally less drama than Shakespeare's Juliet. I cried for a week after my first boyfriend went to America to see his mother (he was away for eight days); I once called virtually every florist in London, demanding that they note that I love them, not creepy; Pictured: Sophia Money-Coutts

Google Mail also includes a feature that encourages users to delete exclamation marks from their emails. (The little flecks of excitement are best used with your families, not the coworkers or clients.' And back in 2016, Britain's Department for Education instructed moderators of Key Stage 1 national curriculum tests to penalise pupils who used exclamation marks 'inappropriately' - which means any sentence that does not include a verb or start with 'Oh!' Or, 'How!' There were no writers in the twentieth century who were bothered with exclamation marks or full stop. Ernest Hemingway's book The Old Man and the Sea (1952) used only one. In fact, there are an average of just 59 exclamation marks for every 100,000 words of prose written by Hemingway. John Updike was also sparing - an average of 88 for every 100,000 words. "I believe in full stops, in capitals, in the event of a comma, and that's it," Cormac McCarthy told an interviewer.'