{"id":2699,"date":"2015-01-01T10:31:03","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T16:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2699"},"modified":"2015-01-01T10:31:03","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T16:31:03","slug":"columnist-resolves-to-read-more-updike-in-2015","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/01\/01\/columnist-resolves-to-read-more-updike-in-2015\/","title":{"rendered":"Columnist resolves to read more Updike in 2015"},"content":{"rendered":"

New Year’s means resolutions, and\u00a0columnist Danny Heitman shared his with Christian Science Monitor<\/em> readers:<\/p>\n

“My New Year’s resolution: read more John Updike.”<\/a><\/p>\n

“He appeals to me because, quite frankly, I finally have a decent chance of finishing one Updike book before another comes out. . . . What we now have, finally, is the prospect of seeing Updike whole. That’s a territory I’d like to explore the next 12 months, continuing a journey started many years ago,” writes Heitman, who said he began reading Updike as a college student.<\/p>\n

“Updike’s acute perception\u2014his ability to record the inner life of his childhood with such luminous detail [in Self-Consciousness<\/em>]\u2014was a small miracle to me. He seemed like a writer I should get to know.”<\/p>\n

Heitman says that by reading all of Updike he’s anticipating the chance “to see an author grow on the page as you visit his early books, the middle ones, the later ones that top off a career. And there’s the promise of intimacy, too\u2014the kind of closeness that develops, like any friendship, according to the number of hours one is willing to invest in it.”<\/p>\n

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New Year’s means resolutions, and\u00a0columnist Danny Heitman shared his with Christian Science Monitor readers: “My New Year’s resolution: read more John Updike.” “He appeals to me because, quite frankly, I finally have a decent chance of finishing one Updike book … 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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699","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=2699"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2700,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2699\/revisions\/2700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}