{"id":1988,"date":"2014-04-21T15:10:22","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T20:10:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1988"},"modified":"2014-04-21T15:11:25","modified_gmt":"2014-04-21T20:11:25","slug":"dangerous-minds-considers-a-roth-updike-exchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/04\/21\/dangerous-minds-considers-a-roth-updike-exchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Dangerous Minds considers a Roth-Updike exchange"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Screen<\/a>Dangerous Minds<\/em>, a pop culture website, recently published a piece titled “Philip Roth to John Updike: FTFY! Updike to Roth: LOL! STFU.” <\/a><\/p>\n

In it, Martin Schneider considers literary feuds past and present, finally settling on an exchange of letters following a 1999\u00a0New York Review of Books<\/em> publication of an essay on literary biography in which Updike had referenced negative remarks about Roth in a biography (Leaving a Doll’s House<\/em>) published in 1996 by Roth’s ex-wife, Claire Bloom.<\/p>\n

“Three years later, Roth was still bristling at the apparent presumption of guilt\u00a0. . . .\u00a0Roth wrote in to complain, resulting in one of those exquisite disputes that happen often in the pages of The New York Review of Books<\/em>.\u00a0Letters going each way, eye squarely on the reader, outraged rhetorical high dudgeon in abundance . . . . But this one would be short and sweet. Roth offered to rewrite a key sentence\u2014on the Internet, you could distill part of his lengthy, indeed overlong missive as the common Internet acronym, the breezy and condescending \u201cFTFY\u201d: \u201cFixed that for you!\u201d Updike didn\u2019t take the bait, deciding that his original sentence was good enough, thank you very much.”<\/p>\n

Both letters are published verbatim in the article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dangerous Minds, a pop culture website, recently published a piece titled “Philip Roth to John Updike: FTFY! Updike to Roth: LOL! STFU.” In it, Martin Schneider considers literary feuds past and present, finally settling on an exchange of letters following … Continue reading →<\/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":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lost-and-found"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988","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=1988"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1991,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1988\/revisions\/1991"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}