{"id":3239,"date":"2016-01-15T19:39:14","date_gmt":"2016-01-16T01:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3239"},"modified":"2016-01-15T19:39:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-16T01:39:15","slug":"author-strout-names-updike-book-childhood-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/01\/15\/author-strout-names-updike-book-childhood-favorite\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Strout names Updike book childhood favorite"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Screen<\/a>Entertainment Weekly<\/em> often finds ways to enliven interviews, and in “Books of My Life: Elizabeth Strout<\/strong> on\u00a0Madame Bovary, The Journals of John Cheever,\u00a0<\/em>and other favorites<\/a>,” writer Isabella Biedenharn asked Strout\u00a0to name the book she loved in school (Madame Bovary<\/em>), a\u00a0novel she read in secret (The Man Who Had Everything<\/em>), the book that “cemented” her as a writer (the works of Alice Munro and William Trevor), the book that changed her life (The Journals of John Cheever<\/em>), a classic she’s never read (The Grapes of Wrath<\/em>), and her favorite book as a child:<\/p>\n

Pigeon Feathers and Other Stories, by John Updike<\/em>.<\/strong> For each\u00a0answer\u00a0she\u00a0offers a brief explanation, and here’s what she had to say about the Updike book:<\/p>\n

“I was probably around 8 when I found a copy of it on our coffee table. I am sure much of it I didn’t understand, but I had a real sense that this was how grown-ups were, and I was thrilled by it.”<\/p>\n

Strout is the author of such books as My Name Is Lucy Barton: A Novel<\/em>, (2016)<\/a>, The Burgess Boys: A Novel<\/em> (2014), Olive Kitteridge<\/em> (2008), Abide with Me: A Novel<\/em> (2007), and\u00a0Amy and Isabelle: A Novel<\/em> (2000).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Entertainment Weekly often finds ways to enliven interviews, and in “Books of My Life: Elizabeth Strout on\u00a0Madame Bovary, The Journals of John Cheever,\u00a0and other favorites,” writer Isabella Biedenharn asked Strout\u00a0to name the book she loved in school (Madame Bovary), a\u00a0novel … Continue reading →<\/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":[6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3239","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239","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=3239"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3242,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3239\/revisions\/3242"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}