Product description: Updike reflects on such writers as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry James, Don DeLillo, A.S. Byatt, Colson Whitehead, and Margaret Atwood. He visits China, goes to art exhibitions, provides a whimsical and insightful list of 'Ten Epochal Moments in the American Libido,' and shares his thoughts on the fall of the Twin Towers, which he witnessed from a tenth-floor apartment in Brooklyn.