{"id":3062,"date":"2015-08-10T21:58:56","date_gmt":"2015-08-11T02:58:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3062"},"modified":"2015-08-10T21:58:56","modified_gmt":"2015-08-11T02:58:56","slug":"beatties-new-collection-an-occasion-to-remember-the-updike-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/08\/10\/beatties-new-collection-an-occasion-to-remember-the-updike-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"Beattie’s new collection an occasion to remember the Updike connection"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"1-the-state-were-in-ann-beattie\"<\/a>Writer Ann Beattie<\/strong> agreed to share the keynote speaker duties at the First Biennial John Updike Society Conference at Alvernia University with her painter-husband Lincoln Perry because she was an Updike supporter and Updike was a supporter of hers.<\/p>\n

A Vogue<\/em> article about her new collection, The State We’re In: Maine Stories<\/em><\/strong>, reminds us of that connection. Journalist Megan O’Grady writes, “As John Updike told her when they first met, ‘You figured out how to write an entirely different kind of story.”<\/p>\n

He was talking about what O’Grady described as her stories’ “open-ended capaciousness, so unlike the deterministic, epiphany-shaped prose that has defined the short form.”<\/p>\n

Just as Updike’s characters aged, so have Beattie’s. They’re “mostly older and less cool these days: They order crackers from Amazon; they’ve been through divorces or estrangements and are on second or third attempts at life. They have a sense not of the ending but of an ending. The result is a newfound ephemerality\u2014a fledgling bird found in a recycling bin, and unexpected pregnancy, an attempted suicide,” O’Grady writes.<\/p>\n

Here’s the entire article: \u00a0“Wandering Beyond the Page: Ann Beattie on Her New Collection, The State We’re In.”<\/a><\/p>\n

Amazon link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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