{"id":2456,"date":"2014-09-12T18:39:05","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T23:39:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2456"},"modified":"2014-09-12T18:39:05","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T23:39:05","slug":"guardian-writer-weighs-in-on-updikes-rubbish","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/09\/12\/guardian-writer-weighs-in-on-updikes-rubbish\/","title":{"rendered":"Guardian writer weighs in on Updike’s rubbish"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Guardian Books Blog<\/em> recently posted an item on “Raiding John Updike’s Rubbish\u2014a trashy pursuit.”<\/a>\u00a0\u00a0As the headline implies, the writer thinks that “a reread of the Rabbit books might be a better way of sneaking a peak into the mind of their author, rather than rummaging around in what he threw out.”<\/p>\n

“As for me, I didn’t spend long on Moran’s blog\u2014it felt sleazy, to be looking through such intimate pieces of a man’s life\u2014and Updike was a man who shared much with the world, through his fiction.<\/p>\n

“There is one picture, though, which Moran found and which the Atlantic published, which gives me reason to pause, briefly, in this decision. It’s of Updike, on a basketball court, involved and lean, and it’s so completely reminiscent of the start of Rabbit, Run<\/em> that I can’t stop gazing at it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Guardian Books Blog recently posted an item on “Raiding John Updike’s Rubbish\u2014a trashy pursuit.”\u00a0\u00a0As the headline implies, the writer thinks that “a reread of the Rabbit books might be a better way of sneaking a peak into the mind … 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":[5,6,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2456","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-collectors-corner","category-first-person-singular","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456","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=2456"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2457,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2456\/revisions\/2457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}