{"id":4015,"date":"2017-07-05T08:16:01","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T13:16:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4015"},"modified":"2017-07-05T08:16:01","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T13:16:01","slug":"irish-summer-reading-list-includes-updike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/07\/05\/irish-summer-reading-list-includes-updike\/","title":{"rendered":"Irish summer reading list includes Updike"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The Irish Times<\/em> just published “Suitcase full of stories: writers and readers on their summer reading,” subtitled “Ireland’s best-known writers and readers share what will be in their suitcases.”<\/p>\n

John Kelly,<\/strong> a radio personality whose six-episode program, “The Reading List,” began airing yesterday, July 4, on RT\u00c9 Radio 1 on Tuesdays at 10 p.m., chose an Updike book for his summer reading:<\/p>\n

“The Reading List now on RTE Radio 1 developed from a more personal project\u2014i.e., to read nothing this year but Penguin Modern Classics. Some have been re-reads but mostly these are books I should have read a long time ago. A Clockwork Orange<\/em>, Wide Sargasso Sea<\/em>, Herzog<\/em>, Another Country<\/em>, Bonjour Tristesse<\/em>, A Rage in Harlem<\/em>, The Haunting of Hill House<\/em>, Cat\u2019s Cradle<\/em>, Breakfast at Tiffany\u2019s<\/em> and such. I try to alternate the \u201ceasy reads\u201d with the less so, and with that in mind I highly recommend The Radetzky March<\/em> by Joseph Roth and The Captive Mind<\/em> by Czeslaw Milosz. My own plan for the summer is Updike\u2019s The Witches of Eastwick<\/em><\/strong> and having recently re-read Nineteen Eighty-Four<\/em>, It Can\u2019t Happen Here<\/em> by Sinclair Lewis.<\/p>\n

The Reading List with John Kelly is on RT\u00c9 Radio 1 Tuesdays at 10pm. Six episodes starting July 4th.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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