Assorted ProseBy: John Updike John Updikes first collection of nonfiction pieces, published in 1965 when the author was thirty three, is a diverting and illuminating gambol through midcentury America and the writers youth. It opens with a choice selection of parodies, casuals, and Talk of the Town reports, the fruits of Updikes boyish ambition to follow in the footsteps of Thurber and White. These jeux desprit are followed by Hub Fans Bid Kid Adieu, an immortal