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Post-Clinton blow to ego Alan Taylor's Diary

SEEING John Updike at the Hay-on-Wye literary festival gladdened the heart. The Guardian, ever alert to accusations of dumbing down, asked him if he felt like Tom Cruise. Updike, who is 72, said: “I feel like an elderly Tom Cruise.” His appearance at Hay – “the Woodstock of the mind”, according to Bill Clinton, last year’s star turn – was presented as a coup, the next best thing to exhuming JD Salinger.
But it is worth remembering that long before Hay had been conceived Mr Updike was the top of the bill at the first Edinburgh International Book Festival 21 years ago. On being told that he was in the presence of greatness, one mightily impressed toddler asked: “Is he the man who blows up the balloons?”

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