{"id":1999,"date":"2014-04-24T06:31:14","date_gmt":"2014-04-24T11:31:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=1999"},"modified":"2014-04-24T06:31:14","modified_gmt":"2014-04-24T11:31:14","slug":"more-begley-kirkus-interviews-the-updike-biographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/04\/24\/more-begley-kirkus-interviews-the-updike-biographer\/","title":{"rendered":"More Begley:  Kirkus interviews the Updike biographer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Kirkus Reviews<\/em> on April 9, 2014 published an interview with Adam Begley, who dished, &#8220;I spoke to people he&#8217;d had affairs with. He had a lot of friends, and there was a great deal of interconnecting there. If you&#8217;ve read <em>Couples<\/em>, you know exactly what I mean,&#8221; Begley said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The first time he wrote about adultery was a book called Marry Me that was published 10 years after he wrote it, and it&#8217;s the only book in his cannon that was published out of sequence,&#8221; Begley said. &#8220;That was a book about an affair that he had had in the mid-&#8217;60s and it wasn&#8217;t published until the &#8217;70s. It&#8217;s a novel, but it&#8217;s very closely based on the facts of an affair.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The interview was conducted by Scott Porch. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kirkusreviews.com\/features\/adam-begley\/\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kirkus Reviews on April 9, 2014 published an interview with Adam Begley, who dished, &#8220;I spoke to people he&#8217;d had affairs with. He had a lot of friends, and there was a great deal of interconnecting there. If you&#8217;ve read &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/04\/24\/more-begley-kirkus-interviews-the-updike-biographer\/\">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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999","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=1999"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2000,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999\/revisions\/2000"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}