{"id":3180,"date":"2015-11-07T12:16:26","date_gmt":"2015-11-07T18:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3180"},"modified":"2015-11-07T12:16:26","modified_gmt":"2015-11-07T18:16:26","slug":"franzen-on-the-birth-of-the-new-yorker-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/11\/07\/franzen-on-the-birth-of-the-new-yorker-story\/","title":{"rendered":"Franzen on The Birth of The New Yorker Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>in an essay &#8220;drawn from <strong><em>The &#8217;50s: The Story of a Decade<\/em><\/strong>, an anthology of <em>New Yorker<\/em> articles, stories, and poems&#8221; published the last week in October, Jonathan Franzen considers the writers and stories that came to characterize the magazine&#8217;s fiction.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Along with John Updike and Ann Beattie, Cheever was the paradigmatic &#8216;New Yorker story&#8217; writer, Franzen says, adding, &#8220;While Cheever and Updike were creating the main template for the <em>New Yorker<\/em> story, regional variants were flourishing.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/the-birth-of-the-new-yorker-story\">&#8220;The Birth of &#8216;The New Yorker Story'&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>in an essay &#8220;drawn from The &#8217;50s: The Story of a Decade, an anthology of New Yorker articles, stories, and poems&#8221; published the last week in October, Jonathan Franzen considers the writers and stories that came to characterize the magazine&#8217;s &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2015\/11\/07\/franzen-on-the-birth-of-the-new-yorker-story\/\">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":[6,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular","category-updikes-life-times"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180","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=3180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3181,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3180\/revisions\/3181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}