{"id":2443,"date":"2014-09-06T08:58:02","date_gmt":"2014-09-06T13:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2443"},"modified":"2014-09-06T08:58:02","modified_gmt":"2014-09-06T13:58:02","slug":"boston-globe-thanks-moran-for-rescuing-updike-items","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/09\/06\/boston-globe-thanks-moran-for-rescuing-updike-items\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Globe thanks Moran for rescuing Updike items"},"content":{"rendered":"

Boston Globe<\/em> writer Alex Beam today posted an article-column titled “John Updike’s trash is everyone’s treasure,”<\/a> in which he recounted the story of The Other John Updike<\/em>\u00a0activist-archivist Paul Moran’s habit of hauling off bags of trash from Updike’s curb and rescuing all manner of ephemera.<\/p>\n

“Moran rescued a lot more than ephemera,” Beam adds. “He has posted at least one explicit letter from a lover, and now owns an Updike address book, a trove of floppy disks (Wang!), and notes for a contemplated novel about Saint Paul, which may someday see the light of day.”<\/p>\n

Beam, who says he disagrees with Moran’s assertion that Updike’s “tossed-out family and travel snapshots are copyright-protected”\u2014actually,\u00a0intellectual property law seems to be\u00a0pretty clear that the person who took the photo is the author\/artist and that his\/her property is\u00a0protected\u2014appropriately closes with a line from Updike’s poem “My Children at the Dump” and says, “Thank you, Paul Moran . . . . To quote Updike, you are ‘giving the mundane its beautiful due.'”<\/p>\n

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