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“Everything can be as interesting as every other thing. My subject is the American Protestant small town middle class. I like middles. It is in middles that extremes clash, where ambiguity restlessly rules. ”
-John Updike (1932-2009), interview with Life magazine, 1966
If you like Updike, here’s the interview from which the above sentiment (one oft-quoted today) was drawn, via Google Books. If you’re not a fan (or even if you are), David Foster Wallace’s opinion of Updike may be worth reading. Don’t know his work? If you’d like to try him (even after reading Wallace’s excoriation), the Guardian has put together a list of the essential Updike works.