{"id":1728,"date":"2013-12-10T08:21:43","date_gmt":"2013-12-10T14:21:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1728"},"modified":"2013-12-10T09:02:41","modified_gmt":"2013-12-10T15:02:41","slug":"selected-shorts-readings-of-updike-stories-now-online","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2013\/12\/10\/selected-shorts-readings-of-updike-stories-now-online\/","title":{"rendered":"Selected Shorts readings of Updike stories now online"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On November 22, a special broadcast of Public Radio International’s Selected Shorts<\/em> titled “Updike Redux” featured two of the readings that were a part of the Library of America \/ Symphony Space event last October 16. Now, those who missed it can access the show online. It’s available as a podcast<\/a>. To hear it, scroll to the bottom of the page and click the “Listen to the Show” button.<\/p>\n

The show opens with Tony Kushner reading from the introduction to Updike’s 2003 Knopf volume\u00a0The Early Stories<\/em>. Then, in the story “Unstuck,” a minor mishap strengthens a young couple’s marriage. That story is read by the show’s guest host, Jane Kaczmarek. Two-time Oscar winner Sally Field, making her Selected Shorts<\/em> debut, concludes the program by reading Updike’s “Playing with Dynamite,” in which an aging man looks back on his life and loves.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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