{"id":1247,"date":"2012-08-25T06:53:31","date_gmt":"2012-08-25T11:53:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1247"},"modified":"2012-09-11T14:33:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-11T19:33:34","slug":"delbanco-book-quotes-from-updike-letter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2012\/08\/25\/delbanco-book-quotes-from-updike-letter\/","title":{"rendered":"Delbanco book includes Updike response to questions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2012\/08\/Screen-Shot-2012-08-25-at-6.54.20-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-thumbnail wp-image-1248\" title=\"Screen Shot 2012-08-25 at 6.54.20 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2012\/08\/Screen-Shot-2012-08-25-at-6.54.20-AM-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Member Larry Randen called our attention to a book written by Nicholas Delbanco, &#8220;who was in the class Updike taught at Harvard before he retired from academe in the summer of 1962. It includes a letter dated August 26, 2007 in response to three questions Delbanco asked him (and many others) for his book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Lastingness-Art-Old-Nicholas-Delbanco\/dp\/B007HWE3B6\/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&amp;ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1345895587&amp;sr=1-1&amp;keywords=lastingness+the+art+of+old+age+by+nicholas+delbanco\">&#8220;Lastingness: The Art of Old Age&#8221;<\/a> (New York\/Boston: Grand Central Publishing, 2011, ISBN 978-0-446-19964-3.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Randen says that Updike&#8217;s response to the form letter sent to writers, quoted in its entirety, appears in Chapter 8, &#8220;Gratification.&#8221; Also included in a mid-section gallery is a photo of Updike and Delbanco in Bennington, Vermont, 1980, taken by Elena Delbanco.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Member Larry Randen called our attention to a book written by Nicholas Delbanco, &#8220;who was in the class Updike taught at Harvard before he retired from academe in the summer of 1962. It includes a letter dated August 26, 2007 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2012\/08\/25\/delbanco-book-quotes-from-updike-letter\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1305,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions\/1305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}