{"id":1501,"date":"2013-05-21T08:10:01","date_gmt":"2013-05-21T13:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1501"},"modified":"2013-05-21T08:26:39","modified_gmt":"2013-05-21T13:26:39","slug":"new-republic-spotlights-updikes-1960-defense-of-kim-novak","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/05\/21\/new-republic-spotlights-updikes-1960-defense-of-kim-novak\/","title":{"rendered":"New Republic spotlights Updike’s 1960 defense of Kim Novak"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Screen<\/a>The May 27, 2013 issue of The NewRepublic<\/a>\u00a0<\/em>spotlights “John Updike: On Knocking Miss Novak” in “From the Stacks.”<\/p>\n

The feature details a verbal scuffle Updike had with New Republic film critic Stanley Kauffmann and includes a letter from Updike that was published in the July 25, 1960 issue, following Kauffmann’s review of Strangers when We Meet<\/em>.<\/p>\n

“I am so sick and tired of Stanley Kauffmann knocking Kim Novak. She is a terrific-looking woman,” Updike writes.<\/p>\n

“Motion pictures are not, as Mr. Kauffmann seems to believe, transmogrified novels or adjusted plays; these two art-forms have as little to do with motion pictures as they do with each other.”<\/p>\n

Updike ends his letter with a pretty good slap at Kauffmann: “He is not a bad critic, he is an inverted one; the opposite of everything he says is true.”<\/p>\n

The<\/em>\u00a0New Republic<\/em>\u00a0on John Updike:
\n“Updike Remembered” (January 30, 2009)<\/a>
\n“The READ: Ephemera, Run” (June 30, 2010)<\/a><\/p>\n

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