{"id":2745,"date":"2015-01-21T18:03:34","date_gmt":"2015-01-22T00:03:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2745"},"modified":"2015-01-21T18:03:34","modified_gmt":"2015-01-22T00:03:34","slug":"north-shore-writer-reacts-to-begleys-updike-bio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/01\/21\/north-shore-writer-reacts-to-begleys-updike-bio\/","title":{"rendered":"North Shore writer reacts to Begley’s Updike bio"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Screen<\/a>Dyke Hendrickson, writing for the Newburyport Daily News<\/em>, listened to the audio-book version of Adam Begley’s biography of John Updike, who lived in Boston’s North Shore area for much of his adult life, and had a list of observations about the “brilliant, productive writer” who lived in Ipswich and Beverly Farms, and Begley, whose “research was exhaustive but his prose is energizing.”<\/p>\n

“Begley biography brings alive John Updike, life on North Shore”<\/a><\/p>\n

You need to be a subscriber to access the full article, but Hendrickson, who says he’s a friend of Michael Updike, \u00a0lists two take-aways from the Begley bio that you don’t need to pay to read:<\/p>\n

\u2014”Unlike most writers, Updike was a success from the start”<\/p>\n

\u2014”His writing was remarkably autobiographical. If Updike ran into a hedge with his auto or walked into the bedroom of a neighborhood volleyball wife, the reader was likely to hear about it.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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