{"id":1451,"date":"2013-03-21T18:05:31","date_gmt":"2013-03-21T23:05:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1451"},"modified":"2013-03-21T18:05:31","modified_gmt":"2013-03-21T23:05:31","slug":"the-american-reader-offers-a-gentle-updike-parody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/03\/21\/the-american-reader-offers-a-gentle-updike-parody\/","title":{"rendered":"The American Reader offers a gentle Updike parody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-21-at-6.00.13-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1452\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2013-03-21 at 6.00.13 PM\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-21-at-6.00.13-PM.png\" width=\"311\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-21-at-6.00.13-PM.png 311w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2013\/03\/Screen-Shot-2013-03-21-at-6.00.13-PM-233x300.png 233w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/><\/a>It was David Foster Wallace who famously wondered if John Updike ever had an unpublished thought, and <em>The American Reader<\/em> has some fun with that notion and Updike&#8217;s reputation for producing a book a year.<\/p>\n<p>In an unsigned &#8220;In Conversation&#8221; article titled <strong>&#8220;Excerpt: &#8216;The Collected Blurbs of John Updike,'&#8221;<\/strong> the Staff comes up with a gentle parody, cover and all, along with some legitimate blurbs.<\/p>\n<p>No one from <em>The American Reader<\/em> responded when asked about the nature and genesis of the playful article, so we can only guess that as with all things parodic it&#8217;s part tribute and part criticism.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/theamericanreader.com\/the-collected-blurbs-of-john-updike\/\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was David Foster Wallace who famously wondered if John Updike ever had an unpublished thought, and The American Reader has some fun with that notion and Updike&#8217;s reputation for producing a book a year. In an unsigned &#8220;In Conversation&#8221; &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/03\/21\/the-american-reader-offers-a-gentle-updike-parody\/\">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-1451","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\/1451","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=1451"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1453,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1451\/revisions\/1453"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}