{"id":3356,"date":"2016-04-17T20:44:45","date_gmt":"2016-04-18T01:44:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3356"},"modified":"2016-04-17T20:44:45","modified_gmt":"2016-04-18T01:44:45","slug":"mother-jones-founder-picks-updike-as-a-favorite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/04\/17\/mother-jones-founder-picks-updike-as-a-favorite\/","title":{"rendered":"Mother Jones founder picks Updike as a favorite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/04\/17\/mother-jones-founder-picks-updike-as-a-favorite\/trustme\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-3358\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3358\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/04\/TrustMe.jpg\" alt=\"TrustMe\" width=\"250\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/04\/TrustMe.jpg 250w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/04\/TrustMe-198x300.jpg 198w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Mother Jones<\/em> co-founder <strong>Adam Hochschild<\/strong> told <em>The Week<\/em> that his six favorite books are:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>The Raj Quartet<\/em>, by Paul Scott<\/li>\n<li><em>A Time of Gifts<\/em>, by Patrick Leigh<\/li>\n<li><em>Billy Lynn&#8217;s Long Halftime Walk<\/em>, by Ben Fountain<\/li>\n<li><em>Homage to Catalonia<\/em>, by George Orwell<\/li>\n<li><em>Trust Me<\/em>, by John Updike<\/li>\n<li><em>The Gypsies<\/em>, by Jan Yoors<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of <em>Trust Me<\/em> he writes, &#8220;I could pick almost any book of Updike&#8217;s short stories, but I chose this one because it has my favorite, &#8216;Leaf Season,&#8217; about a family&#8217;s excursion to Vermont.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I reread it almost every year. It&#8217;s like a perfect piece of music you can listen to again and again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/theweek.com\/articles\/618490\/adam-hochschilds-6-favorite-books\">&#8220;Adam Hochschild&#8217;s 6 favorite books&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mother Jones co-founder Adam Hochschild told The Week that his six favorite books are: The Raj Quartet, by Paul Scott A Time of Gifts, by Patrick Leigh Billy Lynn&#8217;s Long Halftime Walk, by Ben Fountain Homage to Catalonia, by George &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/04\/17\/mother-jones-founder-picks-updike-as-a-favorite\/\">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-3356","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\/3356","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=3356"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3360,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3356\/revisions\/3360"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3356"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3356"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3356"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}