{"id":1383,"date":"2012-12-21T14:36:21","date_gmt":"2012-12-21T20:36:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1383"},"modified":"2012-12-21T14:37:40","modified_gmt":"2012-12-21T20:37:40","slug":"salman-rushdie-responds-to-guardian-letter-writer-whose-attack-included-updike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2012\/12\/21\/salman-rushdie-responds-to-guardian-letter-writer-whose-attack-included-updike\/","title":{"rendered":"Salman Rushdie responds to Guardian letter-writer whose attack included Updike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Who says authors don&#8217;t read reviews and notices of their work? Salman Rushdie responded to a December 15 letter to <em>The Guardian<\/em> books section which attacked him and caught John Updike in the crossfire by firing off one of his own the next day.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Satanic view that equates democracies and dictatorships&#8221; notes that the letter-writer &#8220;misreads John Updike&#8217;s &#8216;blue mailboxes&#8217; speech at the Pen congress of 1986. Updike was not talking selfishly about sending away his writing and receiving cheques in return. He was using the mailboxes as a metaphor of the easy, free exchange of ideas and information in an open society.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Rushdie also goes on to talk about how the letter-writer misrepresents him as well. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2012\/dec\/16\/satanic-view-democracies-dictatorships\">link to Rushdie&#8217;s letter<\/a>, which has a link to the original. Thanks to member Larry Randen for calling it to our attention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Who says authors don&#8217;t read reviews and notices of their work? Salman Rushdie responded to a December 15 letter to The Guardian books section which attacked him and caught John Updike in the crossfire by firing off one of his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2012\/12\/21\/salman-rushdie-responds-to-guardian-letter-writer-whose-attack-included-updike\/\">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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383","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=1383"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1385,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1383\/revisions\/1385"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}