{"id":2078,"date":"2014-05-15T09:43:13","date_gmt":"2014-05-15T14:43:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2078"},"modified":"2014-05-20T07:51:30","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T12:51:30","slug":"blogger-features-begley-qa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/05\/15\/blogger-features-begley-qa\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger features Begley Q&A"},"content":{"rendered":"

Blogger Mark Stevens published a Q&A with Updike<\/em> biographer Adam Begley on May 13 in which Begley talks about the issues central to Updike’s work and life.<\/p>\n

Among Begley’s responses:<\/p>\n

“I think his misbehavior was very fruitful for him: he made hay out of his peccadillos\u2014or his sins, really, if you want to talk about it that way. The key passage for [me] is in Roger’s Version<\/em>, when Roger finally allows Verna\u2014his half-niece, his half-sister’s daughter\u2014to seduce him and they are lying on the soiled futon in a rundown housing estate and they have just committed quasi-incest and adultery, because he’s married, and at that moment he, this character Roger, has this great religious epiphany, which is that even in abasement you are subject to God. I think that is a crystallization of his attitude, if you will, of his attitude toward his own transgressions and his religious faith. Both were equally important to him. I don’t think John Updike could have been the artist he was without his philandering and I don’t think he could have been the artist he was without his faith.”<\/p>\n

“Q&A with Adam Begley \u2014 ‘Updike'”<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Blogger Mark Stevens published a Q&A with Updike biographer Adam Begley on May 13 in which Begley talks about the issues central to Updike’s work and life. Among Begley’s responses: “I think his misbehavior was very fruitful for him: he … 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":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2078","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\/2078","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=2078"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2102,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2078\/revisions\/2102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2078"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2078"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2078"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}