{"id":2948,"date":"2015-05-29T06:36:07","date_gmt":"2015-05-29T11:36:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2948"},"modified":"2015-05-29T06:36:07","modified_gmt":"2015-05-29T11:36:07","slug":"updike-a-quick-read-arts-mic-thinks-so","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/05\/29\/updike-a-quick-read-arts-mic-thinks-so\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike a quick read? Arts.Mic thinks so"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Screen<\/a>June is soon upon us and it’s come to our attention that a year ago Rachel Grate<\/strong> of Arts.Mic<\/em><\/strong> shared “14 Brilliant Pieces of Literature You Can Read in the Time it Takes to Eat Lunch.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Margaret Atwood’s “Happy Endings” comes in at #1, followed by John Updike’s “Pygmalion.”<\/strong><\/p>\n

“Inspired by the story of Pygmalion from Ovid’s Metamorphoses<\/em>, the story follows a sculptor who falls in love with a statue he carves. Updike transforms the narrative’s message to reveal the narcissism we all bring to love.<\/p>\n

“Updike makes every sentence of this brief piece count, nonchalantly surprising his readers with a new twist in every paragraph. Soon, we begin to wonder how much of a relationship is based on who the other person really is and how much is based on how we transform them.<\/p>\n

“Read it for free here<\/a>,” courtesy of The Atlantic<\/em> online. The story appeared in the July 1981 issue.<\/p>\n

Only one of the American Nobel laureates made the Arts.Mic<\/em> list: \u00a0Ernest Hemingway (“Hills Like White Elephants”).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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