{"id":1832,"date":"2014-01-21T21:58:33","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T03:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1832"},"modified":"2014-01-21T22:03:55","modified_gmt":"2014-01-22T04:03:55","slug":"author-and-book-reviewer-draws-inspiration-from-updike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/01\/21\/author-and-book-reviewer-draws-inspiration-from-updike\/","title":{"rendered":"Author and book reviewer draws inspiration from Updike"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"updikecaricature\"<\/a>Author Nick Mattiske writes that he has published a book of reviews in Australia, and in the introduction he draws inspiration from John Updike to “make a few rambling points about reviewing. The introduction also includes a caricature of Updike,” he says, and he “reproduced part of this introduction and the caricature as the first post on my blog,” which can be found here:<\/p>\n

“On Ronald Blythe’s almost-most-recent book”<\/a><\/p>\n

Before he gets into his own book, Mr. Mattiske evaluates another: “As John Updike has noted,” he begins, “Blythe’s work has a particularity about it regarding place that sometimes requires from the reader a measure of understanding of local village and parish life with which Blythe is saturated.”<\/p>\n

When he gets to his own volume he cites an Updike quotation: “The communication between reviewer and his public is based upon the presumption of certain possible joys of reading, and all our discrimination should curve toward that end.”<\/p>\n

Mattiske concludes, “The best reviews open doors to rooms never previously noticed that enrich the reader’s or listener’s experience. There is sometimes a great need for negativity, if that means the critique of sloppy thinking rather than merely the reviewer’s personal distaste, but Updike is right: when one has the pleasure of being immersed in books and music, some measure of enthusiasm should spark off onto the reader.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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