Letters And Numbers:
I think Updike would do a pretty good job with it. I like how gets inside a character‘s head and shines the flashlight into the corners.
Billedmeup:
In Rabbit Is Rich there are some weight gain issues. Rabbit goes to get some new pants and has to suck in to measure 39” because he doesn’t want to admit that he is really 40. Also, that hot wife of one of his friends is always complaining about gaining and one day by the pool he notices that she has put on some.
Exactly! The girlfriend in Rabbit Run is chubby, too, and even though she’s a sad character, I always found the way he wrote about her weight was sympathetic.
