{"id":3146,"date":"2015-10-23T23:32:17","date_gmt":"2015-10-24T04:32:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3146"},"modified":"2015-10-23T23:32:17","modified_gmt":"2015-10-24T04:32:17","slug":"carduff-picks-his-10-best-john-updike-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/10\/23\/carduff-picks-his-10-best-john-updike-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Carduff picks his 10 Best John Updike Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Publishers Weekly<\/em> asked <strong>Christopher Carduff<\/strong>, &#8220;who was handpicked by John Updike to edit the Library of America edition of his work&#8221; and \u00a0&#8220;also edits the posthumous Updike publications for Knopf, the later of which, <em>John Updike: Selected Poems<\/em>, will be published this month,&#8221; to choose 10 of &#8220;his favorite books by Updike in a variety of genres.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The Centaur<\/em>, which won the National Book Award, didn&#8217;t make Carduff&#8217;s list, nor did any of the so-called <em>Scarlet Letter<\/em> trilogy novels or the Bech books. Neither did <em>Midpoint<\/em>, Updike&#8217;s mid-life poetic crisis, nor <em>Couples<\/em>, the steamy novel that vaulted Updike into national prominence.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/industry-news\/tip-sheet\/article\/68449-the-10-best-john-updike-books.html\">Click here<\/a> to see Carduff&#8217;s &#8220;10 Best John Updike Books.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Publishers Weekly asked Christopher Carduff, &#8220;who was handpicked by John Updike to edit the Library of America edition of his work&#8221; and \u00a0&#8220;also edits the posthumous Updike publications for Knopf, the later of which, John Updike: Selected Poems, will be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/10\/23\/carduff-picks-his-10-best-john-updike-books\/\">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":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146","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=3146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3147,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3146\/revisions\/3147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}