{"id":1783,"date":"2014-01-09T08:31:13","date_gmt":"2014-01-09T14:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1783"},"modified":"2014-01-09T08:31:13","modified_gmt":"2014-01-09T14:31:13","slug":"bbcs-great-lives-series-focuses-on-john-updike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/01\/09\/bbcs-great-lives-series-focuses-on-john-updike\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC&#8217;s Great Lives series focuses on John Updike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-09-at-8.29.25-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-1785\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-01-09 at 8.29.25 AM\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2014\/01\/Screen-Shot-2014-01-09-at-8.29.25-AM.png\" width=\"195\" height=\"219\" \/><\/a>Several days ago the BBC ran a program that the website is listing as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b03nt8bw\">&#8220;David Baddiel on John Updike.&#8221;<\/a> Click on the pop-up option and you&#8217;ll be able to hear the 30-minute broadcast.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There can be few successful novelists who so divide critical opinion,&#8221; Matthew Parris begins. &#8220;John Updike was one of the 20th century&#8217;s most read of serious American writers&#8221; whose style charmed most critics, but, he adds, most famously not Harold Bloom, who called him a minor novelist with a major style.<\/p>\n<p>Parris talks to guest David Baddiel, who builds a case for John Updike, as well as Justin Cartwright, a novelist himself.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think it&#8217;s a huge mistake to think that the &#8216;mundane&#8217; is easier to write,&#8221; Cartwright says, comparing Updike to George Eliot and Jane Austen.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several days ago the BBC ran a program that the website is listing as &#8220;David Baddiel on John Updike.&#8221; Click on the pop-up option and you&#8217;ll be able to hear the 30-minute broadcast. &#8220;There can be few successful novelists who &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/01\/09\/bbcs-great-lives-series-focuses-on-john-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":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1783","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasts"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783","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=1783"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1786,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1783\/revisions\/1786"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}