{"id":277,"date":"2010-01-06T14:48:39","date_gmt":"2010-01-06T20:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=277"},"modified":"2011-10-28T08:40:23","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T13:40:23","slug":"the-next-updike-volumes-to-be-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2010\/01\/06\/the-next-updike-volumes-to-be-published\/","title":{"rendered":"The next Updike volumes to be published?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2010\/01\/observer_man1.tif\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-283\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2010\/01\/observer_man1.tif\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>Andrew Wylie, whom Martha Updike hired to act as literary agent for the Updike Estate, told <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/\">The New York Observer<\/a><\/em> that a collection of Updike&#8217;s essays would be given to Knopf this fall. <em>Observer<\/em> reporter Leon Neyfakh also wrote in his <a href=\"http:\/\/\">January 5\u00a0article<\/a> that Max Rudin, publisher of the Library of America series, has been in discussions with Wylie about Library of America editions of Updike&#8217;s work, &#8220;something the author was very eager to do while he was alive but couldn&#8217;t because such editions would compete directly with Knopf&#8217;s Everyman&#8217;s Library series.&#8221; As for the essays, we asked Andrew Wylie if he could tell us whether the volume would be a compilation of previously published material, ala <em>More Matter<\/em> and <em>Due Considerations<\/em>, or if they were previously unpublished essays that came closer to <em>Self-Consciousness. <\/em>&#8220;It&#8217;s premature to say more now,&#8221; Wylie responded. &#8220;Sometime in the fall there may be more news.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>For another story about Wylie&#8217;s acquisition of the Updike account, see the January 6\u00a0<em><a href=\"http:\/\/\">Daily Finance<\/a><\/em> article by Sarah Weinman.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Andrew Wylie, whom Martha Updike hired to act as literary agent for the Updike Estate, told The New York Observer that a collection of Updike&#8217;s essays would be given to Knopf this fall. Observer reporter Leon Neyfakh also wrote in &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2010\/01\/06\/the-next-updike-volumes-to-be-published\/\">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":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277","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=277"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277\/revisions\/290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}