{"id":3086,"date":"2015-08-29T13:54:31","date_gmt":"2015-08-29T18:54:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3086"},"modified":"2015-08-29T13:54:31","modified_gmt":"2015-08-29T18:54:31","slug":"entertainment-weekly-on-the-united-states-of-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/08\/29\/entertainment-weekly-on-the-united-states-of-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Entertainment Weekly on The United States of Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2332_top1\"<\/a>The September 4, 2015 print version of Entertainment Weekly<\/strong><\/em> has an interesting feature by Keith Staskiewicz and Isabella Biedenharn on “The United States of Books.”<\/p>\n

“Which novel captures the true spirit of Iowa? How about Texas? Or Rhode Island? Here, EW picks the one work of fiction that best defines each state in the union.”<\/p>\n

Is it any surprise that John Updike was chosen as the author whose novel best represents the spirit and character of Pennsylvania?<\/p>\n

In choosing\u00a0Rabbit, Run<\/em><\/strong> as the book that captures the spirit of Pennsylvania, the authors write, “Updike’s most famous work, the first of his Rabbit Angstrom novels, follows a former high school basketball star after he abandons his pregnant wife and child, taking suburban Pennsylvania ennui to a terrifying precipice.”<\/p>\n

Since there’s no online link yet, here are all the\u00a0state selections:<\/p>\n

Alabama\u2014To Kill a Mockingbird<\/em>, Harper Lee
\nAlaska\u2014Julie of the Wolves<\/em>, Jean Craighead George
\nArizona\u2014Animal Dreams<\/em>, Barbara Kingsolver
\nArkansas\u2014True Grit<\/em>, Charles Portis
\nCalifornia\u2014Play It As It Lays<\/em>, Joan Didion
\nColorado\u2014Plainsong<\/em>, Kent Haruf
\nConnecticut\u2014The Witch of Blackbird Pond<\/em>, Elizabeth George Speare
\nDelaware\u2014The Book of Unknown Americans<\/em>, Cristina Henriquez
\nFlorida\u2014The Yearling<\/em>, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings
\nGeorgia\u2014Gone with the Wind<\/em>, Margaret Mitchell
\nHawaii\u2014The Descendants<\/em>, Kaui Hart Hemmings
\nIdaho\u2014Housekeeping<\/em>, Marilynne Robinson
\nIllinois\u2014Maud Martha<\/em>, Gwendolyn Brooks
\nIndiana\u2014The Magnificent Ambersons<\/em>, Booth Tarkington
\nIowa\u2014Shoeless Joe<\/em>, W.P. Kinsella
\nKansas\u2014Doc<\/em>, Mary Doria Russell
\nKentucky\u2014In Country<\/em>, Bobbie Ann Mason
\nLouisiana\u2014The Awakening<\/em>, Kate Chopin
\nMaine\u2014Empire Falls<\/em>, Richard Russo
\nMaryland\u2014The Accidental Tourist<\/em>, Anne Tyler
\nMassachusetts\u2014The Wapshot Chronicle<\/em>, John Cheever
\nMichigan\u2014Once Upon a River<\/em>, Bonnie Jo Campbell
\nMinnesota\u2014The Betsy-Tacy Series<\/em>, Maud Hart Lovelace
\nMississippi\u2014The Sound and the Fury<\/em>, William Faulkner
\nMissouri\u2014The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn<\/em>, Mark Twain
\nMontana\u2014A River Runs through It<\/em>, Norman Maclean
\nNebraska\u2014My Antonia<\/em>, Willa Cather
\nNevada\u2014Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas<\/em>, Hunter S. Thompson
\nNew Hampshire\u2014A Prayer for Owen Meany<\/em>, John Irving
\nNew Jersey\u2014Independence Day<\/em>, Richard Ford
\nNew Mexico\u2014House Made of Dawn<\/em>, N. Scott Momaday
\nNew York\u2014Drown<\/em>, Junot Diaz
\nNorth Carolina\u2014Jim the Boy<\/em>, Tony Earley
\nNorth Dakota\u2014Love Medicine<\/em>, Louise Erdrich
\nOhio\u2014Winesburg, Ohio<\/em>, Sherwood Anderson
\nOklahoma\u2014The Grapes of Wrath<\/em>, John Steinbeck
\nOregon\u2014Geek Love<\/em>, Katherine Dunn
\nPennsylvania\u2014Rabbit, Run<\/em>, John Updike
\nRhode Island\u2014Spartina<\/em>, John Casey
\nSouth Carolina\u2014The Prince of Tides<\/em>, Pat Conroy
\nSouth Dakota\u2014Black Hills<\/em>, Dan Simmons
\nTennessee\u2014A Death in the Family<\/em>, James Agee
\nTexas\u2014Lonesome Dove<\/em>, Larry McMurtry
\nUtah\u2014The Monkey Wrench Gang<\/em>, Edward Abbey
\nVermont\u2014Songs in Ordinary Time<\/em>, Mary McGarry Morris
\nVirginia\u2014The Known World<\/em>, Edward P. Jones
\nWashington\u2014The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, Sherman Alexie
\nWest Virginia\u2014Lord of Misrule<\/em>, Jaimy Gordon
\nWisconsin\u2014A Map of the World<\/em>, Jane Hamilton
\nWyoming\u2014Close Range<\/em>, Annie Proulx<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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