What counts is the work …

… Updike by Adam Begley: A biography shows that John Updike's talent was for fiction, not domestic drama — The Independent. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

…  the business of a novelist's material, the way those closest to him are served up for the purposes of fiction, is central to what Begley is doing and, although this is anything but a Judas biography, resentment rumbles beneath the surface of its decorous, well-researched pages.