{"id":2965,"date":"2015-06-03T07:11:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-03T12:11:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=2965"},"modified":"2015-06-03T07:11:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-03T12:11:16","slug":"new-stephen-king-novel-alludes-to-updike-et-alia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/06\/03\/new-stephen-king-novel-alludes-to-updike-et-alia\/","title":{"rendered":"New Stephen King novel alludes to Updike et alia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-03-at-7.04.25-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-2966\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/06\/Screen-Shot-2015-06-03-at-7.04.25-AM-150x150.png\" alt=\"Screen Shot 2015-06-03 at 7.04.25 AM\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Stephen King<\/strong>, the master of horror who debuted with <em>Carrie<\/em> (1974), has turned to the newspaper headlines and a trio of literary masters for the subject of his new\u00a0book. <strong><em>Finders Keepers<\/em><\/strong> is about a psychopath&#8217;s obsession with writer John Rothstein (a mash-up of John Updike, Philip Roth, and J.D. Salinger), whose &#8220;fame comes from his Runner books, a trilogy that tips its hat to Updike&#8217;s Rabbit novels,&#8221; says <em>Guardian<\/em> writer James Smythe.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/may\/28\/finders-keepers-stephen-king\">&#8220;Finders Keepers by Stephen King\u2014writers, beware your fans&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephen King, the master of horror who debuted with Carrie (1974), has turned to the newspaper headlines and a trio of literary masters for the subject of his new\u00a0book. Finders Keepers is about a psychopath&#8217;s obsession with writer John Rothstein &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/06\/03\/new-stephen-king-novel-alludes-to-updike-et-alia\/\">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":[3,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2965","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965","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=2965"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2967,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2965\/revisions\/2967"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}