{"id":3494,"date":"2016-09-03T19:43:31","date_gmt":"2016-09-04T00:43:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3494"},"modified":"2016-09-03T19:46:59","modified_gmt":"2016-09-04T00:46:59","slug":"mcewan-says-rabbit-books-best-contender-for-great-american-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/09\/03\/mcewan-says-rabbit-books-best-contender-for-great-american-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"McEwan says Rabbit books best contender for Great American Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Screen<\/a><\/em>In their September 9, 2016 issue (page 9)\u00a0Entertainment Weekly<\/em>\u00a0(EW.com) played 12 questions about books with esteemed writer Ian McEwan<\/strong>, whose new novel,\u00a0Nutshell,\u00a0<\/em>features an unusual narrator: \u00a0an unborn baby.<\/p>\n

Favorite book as a child?<\/strong> \u00a0The Gauntlet<\/em>, by Ronald Welch
\nBook read in secret as a kid?<\/strong> \u00a0Lady Chatterly’s Lover<\/em>, by D.H. Lawrence
\nBest book read for school?<\/strong> \u00a0The Go-Between<\/em>, by L.P. Hartley
\nBook that cemented him as a writer?<\/strong> \u00a0Portnoy’s Complaint<\/em>, by Philip Roth
\nWhat he’s read over and over?<\/strong> A few Shakespeare plays, like\u00a0Hamlet<\/em> (who stalks through the pages of my new novel)
\nA book people might be surprised to learn he loves?<\/strong> \u00a0Coma<\/em>, by Robin Cook
\nA book he’s pretended to have read?<\/strong> \u00a0Ulysses<\/em>, by James Joyce
\nHis literary hero?<\/strong> \u00a0The hippie-Hamlet hero of William Kotzwinkle’s novel,\u00a0The Fan Man
\n<\/em>His literary “crush”?<\/strong> \u00a0English poet Alice Oswald
\nEarly works of his that make him cringe?<\/strong> “I neither cringe nor strut, but I stand by it all”
\nWhat he’s reading now?<\/strong> \u00a0The Age of Em<\/em>, by Robin Hanson;\u00a0A Peace to End All Peace<\/em>, by David Fromkin<\/p>\n

And what book does he wish he’d written?<\/strong><\/p>\n

“I wouldn’t mind putting my name to John Updike’s Rabbit sequence\u2014in my view, the best contender for the Great American Novel.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In their September 9, 2016 issue (page 9)\u00a0Entertainment Weekly\u00a0(EW.com) played 12 questions about books with esteemed writer Ian McEwan, whose new novel,\u00a0Nutshell,\u00a0features an unusual narrator: \u00a0an unborn baby. Favorite book as a child? \u00a0The Gauntlet, by Ronald Welch Book read … 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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494","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=3494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3498,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3494\/revisions\/3498"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}