{"id":2583,"date":"2014-10-23T19:07:06","date_gmt":"2014-10-24T00:07:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2583"},"modified":"2014-10-23T19:07:06","modified_gmt":"2014-10-24T00:07:06","slug":"begley-at-the-abraham-lincoln-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/10\/23\/begley-at-the-abraham-lincoln-hotel\/","title":{"rendered":"Begley at The Abraham Lincoln Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For a while, it took a subscription to view the <em>Reading Eagle<\/em> story about <strong>Adam Begley<\/strong>&#8216;s keynote John Updike Society conference talk, but now you can view a version of it\u00a0for free at <em>Berks &amp; Beyond<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>In the article by Bruce Posten, Begley said &#8220;he happened to write Updike&#8217;s obituary in 2009 for the <em>New York Observer<\/em>, where he was books editor. Apparently because of that, he was subsequently tapped by HarperCollins to write the biography.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&#8216;My primary regret is it took Updike&#8217;s death to make it happen,&#8217; he said, noting that Updike had expressed that he never wanted a biography during his lifetime.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/readingeagle.com\/news\/article\/biographer-of-john-updike-gives-formal-talk-at-the-abraham-lincoln-hotel\">full story<\/a>\u00a0and a photo by <em>Reading Eagle<\/em> photographer Bill Uhrich of Begley with conference co-directors Maria Mogford (left) and Sue Guay (right).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-23-at-6.59.07-PM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2584\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-23-at-6.59.07-PM.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2014-10-23 at 6.59.07 PM\" width=\"517\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-23-at-6.59.07-PM.png 517w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-23-at-6.59.07-PM-300x194.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2014\/10\/Screen-Shot-2014-10-23-at-6.59.07-PM-464x300.png 464w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 517px) 100vw, 517px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For a while, it took a subscription to view the Reading Eagle story about Adam Begley&#8216;s keynote John Updike Society conference talk, but now you can view a version of it\u00a0for free at Berks &amp; Beyond. In the article by &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/10\/23\/begley-at-the-abraham-lincoln-hotel\/\">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":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-3rd-biennial-jus-conference"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583","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=2583"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2585,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2583\/revisions\/2585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2583"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2583"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2583"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}