Hugging the Shore

Hugging the ShoreBy: John Updike WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD Writing criticism is to writing fiction and poetry as hugging the shore is to sailing in the open sea, writes John Updike in his Foreword to this collection of literary considerations. But the sailor doth protest too much: This collection begins somewhere near deep water, with a flotilla of short fiction, humor pieces, and personal essays, and even the least of the reviews herethose that

" as the first black hero in American fiction

Samantha the Swimming Fairy

世界上只有人類會蛀牙，其他的野生動物都不會嗎？

and abuse—from “a master ventriloquist [who] giv[es] immediacy and voice to an impressive range of vivid characters about whom the reader cares deeply" (San Francisco Chronicle)

are on a rescue mission to save their friend and bring her back to Earth

On Milliken’s twelfth birthday

startling portrait unfolds

Like Oliver Sacks and Stephen Jay Gould

The crayons have so many feelings

As people get up each morning and go to work

Naoki shares his unique point of view on not only autism but life itself

She really doesn't fit in with the posh teenagers at the school