Rabbit, Run Resources
Movie or TV Productions
"Three months ago Rabbit went out to buy his wife cigarettes. He hasn’t come home yet."
That’s the quote from a poster for director Jack Smight’s 1970 film adaptation of Rabbit, Run, staring James Caan.
Sort of an adaptation.
Curtis Hanson’s 2002 film 8 Mile which stars rapper Eminem is a very loose adaptation of the novel.
Images
Updike as a Harvard Senior, 1954
Is it just us, or does Updike look a little rabbity here?
Documents
"The Art of Fiction No. 43"
Check out this 1968 interview with Updike in The Paris Review.
"You Cannot Really Flee"
A review of the novel, by David Boroff, from The New York Times in 1960.
"John Updike at Work: Revising Rabbit Run"
Check out Updike's revision process with your own eyes in this slide show from the New York Times.
"Ex Basketball Player"
A poem by Updike. We think Rabbit would approve.
"John Updike's Archive: A Great Writer at Work"
In 2009, after Updike's death from lung cancer, Harvard University bought his archives. Read all about it here.