{"id":2722,"date":"2015-01-09T18:32:04","date_gmt":"2015-01-10T00:32:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2722"},"modified":"2015-01-09T18:32:04","modified_gmt":"2015-01-10T00:32:04","slug":"infamous-updike-detractor-gets-his-own-reader","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/01\/09\/infamous-updike-detractor-gets-his-own-reader\/","title":{"rendered":"Infamous Updike detractor gets his own reader"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/01\/wallace.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2723\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/01\/wallace.jpg\" alt=\"wallace\" width=\"200\" height=\"261\" \/><\/a>The late David Foster Wallace, who famously attacked Updike and other literary Johns, is featured in <em>The David Foster Wallace<\/em> <em>Reader<\/em> and the subject of a <em>Newsweek<\/em> cover story by Alexander Nazaryan.<\/p>\n<p>For any fan of Updike who&#8217;s more familiar with Wallace&#8217;s sniping than with Wallace and his fiction, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/2015\/01\/16\/turbulent-genius-david-foster-wallace-297688.html\">&#8220;The Turbulent Genius of David Foster Wallace&#8221;<\/a> provides a good summary of the career of the author of <em>Infinite Jest<\/em>, who killed himself in 2008.<\/p>\n<p>In it, Updike is mentioned . . . of course, pejoratively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The late David Foster Wallace, who famously attacked Updike and other literary Johns, is featured in The David Foster Wallace Reader and the subject of a Newsweek cover story by Alexander Nazaryan. For any fan of Updike who&#8217;s more familiar &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/01\/09\/infamous-updike-detractor-gets-his-own-reader\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2722","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\/2722","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=2722"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2724,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2722\/revisions\/2724"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}