{"id":2635,"date":"2014-11-23T20:43:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T02:43:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2635"},"modified":"2014-11-23T20:43:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T02:43:09","slug":"another-list-includes-the-begley-bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/11\/23\/another-list-includes-the-begley-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"Another list includes the Begley bio"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Statesman posted <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/2014\/11\/books-year-ns-friends-and-contributors-choose-their-favourite-reading-2014\">&#8220;Books of the Year: NS friends and contributors choose their favorite reading of 2014,&#8221;<\/a> and Leo Robson, a freelance writer who contributes regularly to the <em>NS<\/em>,\u00a0<em>Financial Times<\/em>, and the <em>Times Literary Supplement<\/em>, \u00a0included <em>Updike<\/em> in his round-up:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Books of the year tend to be submitted too early to acknowledge November and December releases, so it\u2019s only right to single out a book from late 2013, Nina Stibbe\u2019s hilarious <em>Love, Nina: Despatches from Family Life<\/em> (Penguin, \u00a38.99). The freshest piece of new fiction I read was the 250-page narrative about a gay bookshop that runs through Philip Hensher\u2019s patchwork novel <em>The Emperor Waltz<\/em> (Fourth Estate, \u00a318.99). A genuine surprise omission from the recent shortlists, it\u2019s Hensher\u2019s third book on the trot \u2013 after <em>King of the Badgers<\/em> and <em>Scenes from Early Life<\/em> \u2013 that hasn\u2019t had its due. I\u2019m eternally grateful to Adam Begley for his diligent and stylish <strong><em>Updike<\/em><\/strong> (Harper, \u00a325), which answered a thousand questions.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Statesman posted &#8220;Books of the Year: NS friends and contributors choose their favorite reading of 2014,&#8221; and Leo Robson, a freelance writer who contributes regularly to the NS,\u00a0Financial Times, and the Times Literary Supplement, \u00a0included Updike in his &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2014\/11\/23\/another-list-includes-the-begley-bio\/\">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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2635","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635","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=2635"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2636,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2635\/revisions\/2636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}