{"id":3074,"date":"2015-08-17T09:24:05","date_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:24:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3074"},"modified":"2015-08-17T09:24:05","modified_gmt":"2015-08-17T14:24:05","slug":"tanenhaus-on-bill-buckley-and-john-updike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/08\/17\/tanenhaus-on-bill-buckley-and-john-updike\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanenhaus on Bill Buckley . . . and John Updike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/08\/96iiRXJ1_400x400.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3075\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/08\/96iiRXJ1_400x400.jpeg\" alt=\"96iiRXJ1_400x400\" width=\"151\" height=\"151\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/08\/96iiRXJ1_400x400.jpeg 151w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2015\/08\/96iiRXJ1_400x400-150x150.jpeg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 151px) 100vw, 151px\" \/><\/a>The Daily Beast<\/em> today published an interview Scott Porch did with biographer <strong>Sam Tanenhaus<\/strong>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailybeast.com\/articles\/2015\/08\/17\/bill-buckley-gets-bigger-over-time.html\">&#8220;Bill Buckley Gets Bigger Over Time.&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0In it, Tanenhaus talks about his work-in-progress but also shares a few thoughts about Updike:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;For me, Updike and Bellow and Roth are giants now; they were writing when I was young. My copy of Updike\u2019s <em>Rabbit Is Rich<\/em> is the copy I got when I was 15 or 16 through the Book of the Month Club. It\u2019s the only book I ever had signed by an author in all of my years at the book review. We did a long video interview with him for the website. Those figures to me are very large and important. I think of them almost like family, and some of them are still working. Bob Caro is still working. Gay Talese is still working. I saw Garry Wills at the Aspen Ideas Festival a couple of weeks ago, brilliant as ever. Those figures are really important to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Daily Beast today published an interview Scott Porch did with biographer Sam Tanenhaus, &#8220;Bill Buckley Gets Bigger Over Time.&#8221;\u00a0In it, Tanenhaus talks about his work-in-progress but also shares a few thoughts about Updike: &#8220;For me, Updike and Bellow and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/08\/17\/tanenhaus-on-bill-buckley-and-john-updike\/\">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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-interviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074","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=3074"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3076,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3074\/revisions\/3076"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}