Editing John Updike (section)

===Short stories===
Updike's career and reputation were nurtured and expanded by his long association with ''The New Yorker'', which published him frequently throughout his career, despite the fact that he had departed the magazine's employment after only two years. Updike's memoir indicates that he stayed in his "corner of New England to give its domestic news" with a focus on the American home from the point of view of a male writer.<ref>Gross, Terry (2004).  Being square.  ''All I did was ask:  Conversations with writers, actors, musicians, and artists ''(p. 24).  New York, NY:  Hyperion.</ref> Updike's contract with the magazine gave it [[Right of first refusal|right of first offer]] for his short-story manuscripts, but [[William Shawn]], ''The New Yorker''<nowiki/>'s editor from 1952 to 1987, rejected several as too explicit.<ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2003/12/01/true-story|title=True Story|last=Menand|first=Louis|date=November 24, 2003|magazine=The New Yorker|access-date=January 24, 2018|issn=0028-792X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/1992/12/21/william-shawn|title=William Shawn|magazine=The New Yorker}}</ref><ref>{{Cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2009/02/09/john-updike|title=John Updike|magazine=The New Yorker}}</ref>

The Maple short stories, collected in ''[[Too Far To Go]]'' (1979), reflected the ebb and flow of Updike's first marriage; "Separating" (1974) and "Here Come the Maples" (1976) related to his divorce. These stories also reflect the role of alcohol in 1970s America.<ref>Donahue, Peter. "Pouring Drinks and Getting Drunk: The Social and Personal Implications of Drinking in John Updike's Too Far to Go." ''Studies in Short Fiction'' 33.3 (1996): (p. 362). ''Ebscohost''. Web. March 22, 2017</ref> They were the basis for the television movie also called ''Too Far To Go'', broadcast by [[NBC]] in 1979.

Updike's short stories were collected in several volumes published by Alfred A. Knopf over five decades. In 2013, the [[Library of America]] issued a two-volume boxed edition of 186 stories under the title ''The Collected Stories''.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.loa.org/books/391-the-collected-stories-boxed-set |title=John Updike: The Collected Stories (Boxed set) &#124; Library of America |website=www.loa.org |access-date=March 14, 2017}}</ref>