Jon Busch

Getting Over Updike

Jan 14, 2011 4 min read Literature

John Updike was a living legend around Gordon College. He lived mere miles from our tiny campus, and swapping tales of “Updike sightings” was a common pastime among English majors. Once, Updike visited

You’re Probably Not An Outlier

Jun 18, 2010 3 min read Humanity Literature

My mother worked as a school teacher in Passaic, New Jersey. She needed to be at school by 6:30 am, so she would drop my sister and me off at our grandparents’