{"id":1900,"date":"2014-03-13T18:06:22","date_gmt":"2014-03-13T23:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1900"},"modified":"2019-02-09T11:38:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-09T17:38:47","slug":"milwaukee-blogger-considers-wife-wooing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/03\/13\/milwaukee-blogger-considers-wife-wooing\/","title":{"rendered":"Milwaukee blogger considers “Wife-wooing” and other Updike stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Updike\"<\/a>Jim Higgins<\/strong> of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel<\/em> posted another\u00a0consideration of an Updike story yesterday, still fulfilling his declared purpose of “reading and commenting on a story from The Library of America’s John Updike: The Collected Stories<\/em> each Wednesday until I finish the collection or give up.” One\u00a0week’s post was “Wife-wooing.”<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>His full intent is explained in an Introduction<\/a>, and thus far he’s posted musings on:<\/p>\n

“A Sense of Shelter”
\n<\/a>“Packed Dirt, Churchgoing, a Dying Cat, a Traded Car”<\/a>
\n“The Blessed Man of Boston,\u00a0My Grandmother’s Thimble, and Fanning Island”
\n“The Crow in the Woods”
\n“Lifeguard”
\n<\/a>“The Doctor’s Wife”
\n<\/a>“A&P”
\n<\/a>“The Astronomer”**
\n<\/a>“You’ll Never Know, Dear, How Much I Love You”
\n<\/a>“The Sea’s Green Sameness”
\n<\/a>“Archangel”
\n<\/a>“Home”
\n<\/a>“Pigeon Feathers”**
\n<\/a>“A Sense of Shelter”
\n<\/a>“Dear Alexandros”
\n<\/a>“Should Wizard Hit Mommy?”
\n<\/a>“Flight”**
\n<\/a>“The Persistence of Desire”
\n<\/a>“Walter Briggs”
\n<\/a>“The Happiest I’ve Been”**
\n<\/a>“The Alligators”
\n<\/a>“Intercession”
\n<\/a>“A Gift from the City”
\n<\/a>“Incest”
\n<\/a>“A Trillion Feet of Gas”
\n<\/a>“The Lucid Eye in Silver Town”
\n<\/a>“Sunday Teasing”
\n<\/a>“His Finest Hour”**
\n<\/a>“Who Made Yellow Roses Yellow?”
\n<\/a>“Snowing in Greenwich Village”
\n<\/a>“Toward Evening”
\n<\/a>“The Kid’s Whistling”
\n<\/a>“Dentistry and Doubt”
\n<\/a>“Tomorrow and Tomorrow and So Forth”**
\n<\/a>“A Game of Botticelli”
\n<\/a>“Friends from Philadelphia”
\n<\/a>“Ace in the Hole”
\n<\/a>“Unstuck”**
\n<\/a>“In Football Season”
\n<\/a>“The Indian”
\n<\/a>“The Stare”**<\/a>
\n“Leaves”<\/a>
\n“Solitaire”**<\/a>
\n“My Uncle’s Death”<\/a>
\n“A Madman”
\n<\/a>“Avec la Bebe-sitter”
\n<\/a>“Four Sides of One Story”
\n“The Morning”
\n<\/a>“At a Bar in Charlotte Amalie”<\/a><\/p>\n

Titles with two asterisks he says would make his “hypothetical Best of John Updike collection.”\u00a0Check back. We’ll add titles as he posts them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Jim Higgins of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel posted another\u00a0consideration of an Updike story yesterday, still fulfilling his declared purpose of “reading and commenting on a story from The Library of America’s John Updike: The Collected Stories each Wednesday until I … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900","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\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1900"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2482,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1900\/revisions\/2482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}