{"id":2225,"date":"2014-06-27T19:00:27","date_gmt":"2014-06-28T00:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2225"},"modified":"2014-06-27T19:00:27","modified_gmt":"2014-06-28T00:00:27","slug":"these-violent-delights-names-updike-a-best-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/06\/27\/these-violent-delights-names-updike-a-best-book\/","title":{"rendered":"These Violent Delights names Updike a Best Book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-27-at-7.00.01-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2226\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2014\/06\/Screen-Shot-2014-06-27-at-7.00.01-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-06-27 at 7.00.01 PM\" width=\"180\" height=\"268\" \/><\/a>Tom Shone<\/strong>, whose blog, <em>These Violent Delights<\/em>, is read on both sides of the Atlantic, has released his &#8220;Best of 2014 So Far&#8221; lists of films, books, music, television, and performances, and Adam Begley&#8217;s <em>Updike<\/em>\u00a0tops the list of best reads.<\/p>\n<p>Behind it is Mark Harris&#8217;s <em>Five Came Back<\/em>, <em>The Wes Anderson Collection<\/em> by Matt Zoller Seitz, Jenni Fagan&#8217;s <em>The Panopticon<\/em>, and <em>Bark<\/em>, from Lorrie Moore.<\/p>\n<p>Shone&#8217;s top films, for the sake of comparison, are <em>Under the Skin<\/em>, <em>Grand Budapest Hotel<\/em>, <em>Boyhood<\/em>, <em>We&#8217;re the Best!<\/em> and <em>Edge of Tomorrow<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/tomshone.blogspot.com\/2014\/06\/best-of-year-so-far.html?spref=tw\">full article<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tom Shone, whose blog, These Violent Delights, is read on both sides of the Atlantic, has released his &#8220;Best of 2014 So Far&#8221; lists of films, books, music, television, and performances, and Adam Begley&#8217;s Updike\u00a0tops the list of best reads. &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/06\/27\/these-violent-delights-names-updike-a-best-book\/\">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":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2225","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225","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=2225"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2227,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2225\/revisions\/2227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2225"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2225"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2225"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}