{"id":3632,"date":"2016-12-22T09:07:58","date_gmt":"2016-12-22T15:07:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3632"},"modified":"2016-12-22T09:07:58","modified_gmt":"2016-12-22T15:07:58","slug":"updike-turns-up-in-nyt-year-in-reading-retrospective","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/12\/22\/updike-turns-up-in-nyt-year-in-reading-retrospective\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike turns up in NYT Year in Reading retrospective"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-22-at-9.06.34-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-3633\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2016\/12\/Screen-Shot-2016-12-22-at-9.06.34-AM.png\" alt=\"screen-shot-2016-12-22-at-9-06-34-am\" width=\"221\" height=\"50\" \/><\/a>&#8220;In this season of giving,&#8221; a Dec. 19, 2016<em>\u00a0New York Times<\/em> Book Review post began, &#8220;we asked some notably avid readers\u2014who also happen to be poets, musicians, diplomats, filmmakers, novelists, actors and artists\u2014to share the books that accompanied them through 2016.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Not all the books\u00a0in\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/interactive\/2016\/12\/19\/books\/review\/25year-in-reading.html?_r=1\">&#8220;The Year in Reading&#8221;<\/a>\u00a0were published in 2016, and Updike appeared\u00a0on two lists:<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Carl Bernstein, of Woodward and Bernstein Watergate fame, includes\u00a0<em>John Updike: The Collected Stories<\/em> on a list of &#8220;works most enjoyed or valued, in no particular order,&#8221; while<\/p>\n<p>\u2014Writer Maxine Hong Kingston lists books in the order in which she read them, including Updike&#8217;s\u00a0<em>In the Beauty of the Lilies.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>What Updike books have you read in 2016, or do you plan to read in 2017?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;In this season of giving,&#8221; a Dec. 19, 2016\u00a0New York Times Book Review post began, &#8220;we asked some notably avid readers\u2014who also happen to be poets, musicians, diplomats, filmmakers, novelists, actors and artists\u2014to share the books that accompanied them through &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2016\/12\/22\/updike-turns-up-in-nyt-year-in-reading-retrospective\/\">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-3632","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\/3632","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=3632"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3634,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3632\/revisions\/3634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3632"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3632"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3632"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}