{"id":2119,"date":"2014-05-25T09:55:38","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T14:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2119"},"modified":"2014-05-25T09:56:05","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T14:56:05","slug":"summer-reading-list-includes-updike-biography","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/05\/25\/summer-reading-list-includes-updike-biography\/","title":{"rendered":"Summer reading list includes Updike biography"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Higgins, of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, has posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jsonline.com\/entertainment\/books\/96-books-for-your-summer-reading-list-b99252929z1-260431751.html\">&#8220;96 books for your summer reading,&#8221;<\/a> and topping the category titled &#8220;12 Editor&#8217;s Picks&#8221; is <strong><em>Updike<\/em><\/strong>, Adam Begley&#8217;s &#8220;sympathetic but honest biography of the writer, which pays close attention to the ways John Updike frequently transmuted real-life incidents into his fiction.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Other categories: \u00a0&#8220;14 Books We&#8217;ve Already Liked,&#8221; &#8220;8 Books for Recent Graduates,&#8221; &#8220;11 Books by Wisconsin Writers,&#8221; \u00a0&#8220;10 Visiting Writers,&#8221; &#8220;8 Mysteries and Thrillers,&#8221; &#8220;5 Pop Culture Books,&#8221; &#8220;7 Visually Appealing Books,&#8221; &#8220;18 Books for Children and Teens,&#8221; and &#8220;5 Books for Baseball Fans.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jim Higgins, of the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, has posted &#8220;96 books for your summer reading,&#8221; and topping the category titled &#8220;12 Editor&#8217;s Picks&#8221; is Updike, Adam Begley&#8217;s &#8220;sympathetic but honest biography of the writer, which pays close attention to the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/05\/25\/summer-reading-list-includes-updike-biography\/\">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":[6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119","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=2119"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2121,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2119\/revisions\/2121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}