{"id":3707,"date":"2017-02-19T15:53:26","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T21:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3707"},"modified":"2017-02-19T15:57:27","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T21:57:27","slug":"rabbit-run-in-the-running-for-britains-favorite-2nd-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/02\/19\/rabbit-run-in-the-running-for-britains-favorite-2nd-novel\/","title":{"rendered":"Rabbit, Run in the running for Britain&#8217;s favorite 2nd novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2014\/11\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-15-at-11.42.33-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2616\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2014\/11\/Screen-Shot-2014-11-15-at-11.42.33-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"149\" height=\"222\" \/><\/a>The Royal Society of Literature<\/strong> is polling people to discover Britain&#8217;s favorite second novel, and John Updike&#8217;s\u00a0<em>Rabbit, Run<\/em> is in contention.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In selecting the books for the <a href=\"http:\/\/rsliterature.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/The-Nations-Favourite-Second-Novel_full-voting-list-2.pdf\">voting list<\/a>, we have used the following criteria:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Each book is the second full novel published by its author (not necessailry the second novel the author has written). Novellas, collections of short stories and any non-fiction works are not counted.<\/li>\n<li>The writers may be living or dead and may come from any nation.<\/li>\n<li>The books may have been written in any language, but must be available in English. The second novel judgement is based on order of original publication, not order of publication in translation.<\/li>\n<li>Novels written by members of the RSL Council, or by the RSL\u2019s Presidents and Vice-Presidents, have been excluded, as have all the novels entered for the 2017 Encore Award.<\/li>\n<li>We hope that the voting list overall includes a varied and fascinating range of novels. We realise that lots of great novelists are missing from the list \u2013 usually because we felt that their second novel is not well-known or accomplished enough to attract many votes. We apologise in advance for any glaring omissions \u2013 and look forward to hearing your views.&#8221;<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the link to the <a href=\"http:\/\/rsliterature.org\/the-nations-favourite-second-novel\/\">story<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/notes\/the-royal-society-of-literature\/the-nations-favourite-second-novel\/10155740727313222\">Society&#8217;s Facebook page<\/a>, where discussions are taking place.<\/p>\n<p>The tough competition includes:<\/p>\n<p>Pride<em> and Prejudice<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Fahrenheit 451<br \/>\n<\/em><em>The Plague<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Through the Looking Glass, and What Alice Found There<br \/>\n<\/em><em>The Awakening<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Oliver Twist<br \/>\n<\/em><em>The Mill on the Floss<br \/>\n<\/em><em>The Scarlet Letter<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Their Eyes Were Watching God<br \/>\n<\/em><em>One Hundred Years of Solitude<br \/>\n<\/em><em>The Shipping News<br \/>\n<\/em><em>The Crying of Lot 49<br \/>\nThe Fountainhead<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets<br \/>\nLord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring<br \/>\nThe Adventures of Tom Sawyer<br \/>\nBen-Hur<br \/>\nThe House of Mirth<\/em><\/p>\n<p>and, ironically,\u00a0<em>Infinite Jest<\/em> . . . by Updike hater David Foster Wallace.\u00a0<em><br \/>\n<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Royal Society of Literature is polling people to discover Britain&#8217;s favorite second novel, and John Updike&#8217;s\u00a0Rabbit, Run is in contention. &#8220;In selecting the books for the voting list, we have used the following criteria: Each book is the second &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/02\/19\/rabbit-run-in-the-running-for-britains-favorite-2nd-novel\/\">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-3707","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\/3707","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=3707"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3709,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3707\/revisions\/3709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3707"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3707"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3707"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}