{"id":3760,"date":"2017-03-30T09:35:42","date_gmt":"2017-03-30T14:35:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3760"},"modified":"2017-03-30T09:35:42","modified_gmt":"2017-03-30T14:35:42","slug":"on-rabbits-alter-ego-and-new-loa-editions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/03\/30\/on-rabbits-alter-ego-and-new-loa-editions\/","title":{"rendered":"On Rabbit’s alter ego and new LOA editions"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>On Feb. 21 in New York City at a Library of America event, writer Kevin Morris<\/strong> and Cornell professor Glenn Altschuler took the stage to discuss Updike’s legacy.<\/p>\n

Morris, who had “adopted”\u00a0John Updike: The Collected Stories<\/em> through the Guardian of American Letters Fund<\/a>, is the author of\u00a0All Joe Knight<\/em>, a novel in which he “engages in a dialogue with Updike’s famous quartet of Rabbit novels,” as a March 9, 2017 LOA website story<\/a> summarizes.<\/p>\n

“Like Rabbit Angstrom, Morris’s protagonist Joe Knight is from Pennsylvania, is unhappily married to a woman named Janice, and is haunted by the sense that his entire life has been a falling-off since the days when he was a high-school basketball star. Perhaps appropriately for America in the early twenty-first century, however, Joe is even angrier and more profane than his predecessor ever was.<\/p>\n

“The resonances between these two characters, along with Updike’s ability to capture the passions, doubts, and longings of America’s post-World War II generation\u2014to ‘give the mundane its beautiful due,’ to use his oft-quoted phrase\u2014were the grist for Morris’s talk with Altschuler.<\/p>\n

“Updike fans will be excited to learn that Library of America inaugurates a planned five-volume edition of his novels in 2018; the lead-off volume will include the first book in the Rabbit Angstrom sage, 1960’s\u00a0Rabbit, Run.<\/em>”<\/p>\n

All Joe Knight<\/em> Amazon link\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Feb. 21 in New York City at a Library of America event, writer Kevin Morris and Cornell professor Glenn Altschuler took the stage to discuss Updike’s legacy. Morris, who had “adopted”\u00a0John Updike: The Collected Stories through the Guardian of … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,9,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-news","category-updike-in-context"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760","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\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3760"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3762,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3760\/revisions\/3762"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}