Subject: Re: A Funny Thing Happened In Nebraska
Iampops: I have seen this story before. ‘The Jungle’ by John Updike.

While John Updike was a fine, fine writer -- multiple winner of the National Book Award for Fiction, the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award for both Fiction and Criticism, the PEN/Malamud Award, the PEN/Faulkner Award, the O. Henry Prize, and others -- it was Upton Sinclair who wrote 'The Jungle'.

Take some time away from the internet and read some Updike. He's probably most famous for his award-winning Rabbit Angstrom Tetralogy - Rabbit, Run; Rabbit Redux; Rabbit Is Rich; and Rabbit at Rest but you won't read a better post-war novel than Of the Farm. You may know him from the movie adaptation of his The Witches of Eastwick and he's written many, many exceptional short stories, including the collections The Maples Stories and Olinger Stories.

I'd forgotten what a fine writer he was... and you might be able to find some of his interviews online, too. He was remarkably articulate and whip smart. Like other fine writers of his generation -- Bernard Malamud, John Cheever, and to a lesser extent, Saul Bellow -- sadly, he has fallen out of favor.