{"id":3903,"date":"2017-05-19T11:06:08","date_gmt":"2017-05-19T16:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=3903"},"modified":"2017-05-19T11:07:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-19T16:07:09","slug":"whats-keillor-reading-updike-of-course","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/05\/19\/whats-keillor-reading-updike-of-course\/","title":{"rendered":"What&#8217;s Keillor reading? Updike, of course"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-19-at-10.01.36-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-3904\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/05\/Screen-Shot-2017-05-19-at-10.01.36-AM-143x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"143\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>The John Updike Society invited <strong>Garrison Keillor<\/strong> to be the keynote speaker at the Fourth Biennial John Updike Society Conference in Columbia, South Carolina last October because of his love of John Updike. So\u00a0there won&#8217;t be\u00a0much suspense for Updike fans when\u00a0<em>Martha&#8217;s Vineyard Times<\/em> interviewer Connie Berry asks Keillor, &#8220;Whom do you like to read these days?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I am still reading John Updike,&#8221; says\u00a0Keillor. &#8220;It will take me about five more years to finish with him. And then I&#8217;ll turn to Faulkner and Turgenev and go back and reread <em>War and Peace<\/em>, and then if I&#8217;m still alive I&#8217;ll take another run at <em>Moby-Dick<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read the full interview: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mvtimes.com\/2017\/05\/18\/minnesota-invades-marthas-vineyard\/\">&#8220;Minnesota invades Martha&#8217;s Vineyard&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The John Updike Society invited Garrison Keillor to be the keynote speaker at the Fourth Biennial John Updike Society Conference in Columbia, South Carolina last October because of his love of John Updike. So\u00a0there won&#8217;t be\u00a0much suspense for Updike fans &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/05\/19\/whats-keillor-reading-updike-of-course\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/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":[6,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular","category-interviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903","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=3903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3906,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3903\/revisions\/3906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}