{"id":2398,"date":"2014-08-20T09:29:24","date_gmt":"2014-08-20T14:29:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2398"},"modified":"2014-08-20T09:29:24","modified_gmt":"2014-08-20T14:29:24","slug":"edinburgh-blurb-begley-at-the-book-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/08\/20\/edinburgh-blurb-begley-at-the-book-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Edinburgh blurb:  Begley at the book festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In a brief piece originally published in <em>The Scotsman<\/em> and reprinted\u00a0by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wow247.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/08\/20\/book-festival-allan-massie-bonnie-greer\/\"><em>WOW24-7<\/em><\/a>, David Robinson writes,<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Apart from Harvard, biographers Adam Begley and Barry Miles agreed, their subjects \u2013 John Updike and William Burroughs respectively \u2013 had almost nothing in common, though as Begley generously pointed out, &#8216;even if Burroughs hadn\u2019t written a word, his life would still have made a fascinating biography.&#8217;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In his fiction, Updike\u2019s nostalgia for his small-town childhood home of Shillington, Pennsylvania, was intense. It was, he said, where all his &#8216;artistic eggs were hatched.&#8217; And while Burroughs headed out for life\u2019s extremes, at least Ulpdike did go home again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a brief piece originally published in The Scotsman and reprinted\u00a0by WOW24-7, David Robinson writes, &#8220;Apart from Harvard, biographers Adam Begley and Barry Miles agreed, their subjects \u2013 John Updike and William Burroughs respectively \u2013 had almost nothing in common, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/08\/20\/edinburgh-blurb-begley-at-the-book-festival\/\">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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2398","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398","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=2398"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2399,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2398\/revisions\/2399"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2398"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2398"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2398"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}