{"id":4017,"date":"2017-07-05T08:33:07","date_gmt":"2017-07-05T13:33:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4017"},"modified":"2017-07-05T08:33:07","modified_gmt":"2017-07-05T13:33:07","slug":"volume-published-on-legendary-authors-and-the-clothes-they-wore","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/07\/05\/volume-published-on-legendary-authors-and-the-clothes-they-wore\/","title":{"rendered":"Volume published on Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-05-at-7.28.30-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4018\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-05-at-7.28.30-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"212\" \/><\/a>If you like literature and coffee table books, you might enjoy\u00a0<strong><em>Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore,<\/em><\/strong> by Terry Newman.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Out of the 50 writers included in the book\u2014from T.S. Eliot and George Sand to Malcolm Gladwell and Joyce Carol Oates\u2014there wasn&#8217;t one, Ms. Newman said, who didn&#8217;t prove a rich subject as she combed through their writing and interviews. Though they often overtly rejected the diktats of the runway, in doing so they drafted diktats of their own.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In the same way that pet owners sometimes come to resemble their animals, writers often come to resemble their discourse (or, in the case of <a title=\"Another Updike Trip to His Kind of Suburbia\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2004\/10\/22\/books\/another-updike-trip-to-his-kind-of-suburbia.html\">John Updike<\/a>, their main character \u2014 which is to say, suburbia). Ms. Stern refers to it as a &#8216;stylistic earmark.&#8217; And she is not referring to just those authors who are part of the &#8216;write what you know&#8217; contingent, or those who use their own life as fodder for their imagination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2017\/06\/29\/fashion\/what-writers-wear-joan-didion-zadie-smith-virginia-woolf.html\">from &#8220;Your Literary Idols and Their Wardrobes,&#8221;<\/a> by Vanessa Friedman (<em>NY Times<\/em> 29 June 2017)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Legendary-Authors-Clothes-They-Wore\/dp\/0062428306\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1499257834&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=legendary+authors+and+the+clothes+they+wore\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-4019\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-05-at-7.19.45-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"299\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-05-at-7.19.45-AM.png 299w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2017\/07\/Screen-Shot-2017-07-05-at-7.19.45-AM-221x300.png 221w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 299px) 100vw, 299px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you like literature and coffee table books, you might enjoy\u00a0Legendary Authors and the Clothes They Wore, by Terry Newman. &#8220;Out of the 50 writers included in the book\u2014from T.S. Eliot and George Sand to Malcolm Gladwell and Joyce Carol &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/07\/05\/volume-published-on-legendary-authors-and-the-clothes-they-wore\/\">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":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4017","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017","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=4017"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4020,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4017\/revisions\/4020"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4017"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4017"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4017"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}