Crazy, man!
Updike's first story in the New Yorker was "Friends from Philadelphia," a small set piece about normal folks that JU said (in a review of a volume of Cheever's letters) his younger self intended as a tacit rebuke to what he perceived as the typical Cheeverian suburban idyll (or something like that). Anyway, they got to be friends, although Cheever remained wary of the overly precious upstart.
Now, JU's final review in the New Yorker is a review of Blake Bailey's big new Cheever bio (which should be shipping my way ANY MINUTE!).
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2009/03/09/090309crbo_books_updike
Bookends!
(LATE APPENDATION: holy crap!!! x 1,100!:
http://cavett.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/writers-bloc-when-updike-and-cheever-came-to-visit/)
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