{"id":2620,"date":"2014-11-19T06:22:52","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T12:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2620"},"modified":"2014-11-19T06:22:52","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T12:22:52","slug":"crimson-writer-offers-tribute-reading-rec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/11\/19\/crimson-writer-offers-tribute-reading-rec\/","title":{"rendered":"Crimson writer offers tribute, reading rec"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, Victoria Zhuang, a <em>Harvard Crimson<\/em> staffer, posted a tribute to John Updike in the guise of a reading recommendation: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thecrimson.com\/article\/2014\/11\/19\/staff-rec-higher-gossip\/\">&#8220;Staff Rec: &#8216;Higher Gossip&#8217;; Tribute to a Prose Poet.&#8221;\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>After sharing the emotion she felt upon hearing of Updike&#8217;s death, she calls the posthumously published <em>Higher Gossip<\/em> &#8220;a kind of chattering astride the grave&#8221; and notes, &#8220;The incredible thing about Updike, a quality rarely native to any other contemporary writer, is that his unmistakable prodding touch is discernible in each miscellaneous fragment, however stray. . . .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Updike was fascinated with everything in the world, a veritable humanist astronaut. He is also a humorous observer, though a supremely self-conscious one whose strains of narcissism and misogyny, present here as elsewhere in his work, are probably only rescued by his being John Updike.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier today, Victoria Zhuang, a Harvard Crimson staffer, posted a tribute to John Updike in the guise of a reading recommendation: \u00a0&#8220;Staff Rec: &#8216;Higher Gossip&#8217;; Tribute to a Prose Poet.&#8221;\u00a0 After sharing the emotion she felt upon hearing of Updike&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/11\/19\/crimson-writer-offers-tribute-reading-rec\/\">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":[6,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular","category-scholarship-analysis"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620","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=2620"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2621,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2620\/revisions\/2621"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}