{"id":2857,"date":"2015-03-20T16:52:58","date_gmt":"2015-03-20T21:52:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2857"},"modified":"2015-03-20T16:55:57","modified_gmt":"2015-03-20T21:55:57","slug":"russian-lit-expert-shares-updikes-response-to-this-and-that","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/03\/20\/russian-lit-expert-shares-updikes-response-to-this-and-that\/","title":{"rendered":"Russian lit expert shares Updike&#8217;s response to this and that"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/03\/photo.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2860\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/03\/photo.jpg\" alt=\"photo\" width=\"80\" height=\"80\" \/><\/a>U.R. Bowie<\/strong>, who taught Russian literature for 30 years at Miami University and now writes a <a href=\"http:\/\/classical-russian-literature.blogspot.com\/2015\/01\/john-updike-on-charles-dambrosio-up.html\">blog<\/a>, recently shared a response from Updike to his questions about Charles D&#8217;Ambrosio (<em>Up<\/em> <em>North<\/em>), Natalie Portman and Julia Roberts (Closer), Woody Allen (Match Point), literary fiction, fluency in Russian, Philip Roth, Zuckerman, Zuckerman&#8217;s prostate gland, &#8220;etc.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Here is Updike&#8217;s response to his 2006 letter:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/03\/classical-russian-literature.blogspot.com_.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-2858\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/03\/classical-russian-literature.blogspot.com_.png\" alt=\"classical-russian-literature.blogspot.com\" width=\"503\" height=\"653\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/03\/classical-russian-literature.blogspot.com_.png 503w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/03\/classical-russian-literature.blogspot.com_-231x300.png 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 503px) 100vw, 503px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.R. Bowie, who taught Russian literature for 30 years at Miami University and now writes a blog, recently shared a response from Updike to his questions about Charles D&#8217;Ambrosio (Up North), Natalie Portman and Julia Roberts (Closer), Woody Allen (Match &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/03\/20\/russian-lit-expert-shares-updikes-response-to-this-and-that\/\">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":[17,35,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews","category-updike-quoted","category-updikes-life-times"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857","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=2857"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2861,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2857\/revisions\/2861"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}