{"id":4129,"date":"2017-08-13T13:31:33","date_gmt":"2017-08-13T18:31:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4129"},"modified":"2017-08-13T13:31:33","modified_gmt":"2017-08-13T18:31:33","slug":"blogger-writes-about-shaw-updike-and-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/08\/13\/blogger-writes-about-shaw-updike-and-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"Blogger writes about Shaw, Updike, and Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Under the header “Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science” blogger Andrew Gelman<\/strong> (andrewgelman.com<\/a>) posted a think piece on “Irwin Shaw, John Updike, and Donald Trump”<\/a> that begins with the writer’s admission that he read both the Shaw and Updike biographies (by Michael Shnyayerson and Adam Begley, respectively) and a lamentation that “very few people actually read” the latter.<\/p>\n

“John Updike was a master of the slice of life and also created one very memorable character in Rabbit. . . . One thing Shaw did have was a combination of emotional sympathy, real-world grit, and social observation. . . .<\/p>\n

“Updike and Shaw had different career trajectories. Updike started at the top and stayed here. Shaw started at the top and worked his way down. . . . From my perspective, Updike redeemed himself by writing a lot of excellent literary journalism. As they got older, both Updike and Shaw reduced their output of short stories, maintaining the high quality in both cases.<\/p>\n

“Speaking of John Updike, if he were around today I expect he’d’ve had something to say about those rural Pennsylvanians who voted for Donald Trump. Being a rural Pennsylvanian. And John O’Hara, as a Pennsylvanian, and Roman Catholic, and an all-around resentful person: he wouldn’t had something to say about Trump voters from all those groups. . . .”<\/p>\n

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Under the header “Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science” blogger Andrew Gelman (andrewgelman.com) posted a think piece on “Irwin Shaw, John Updike, and Donald Trump” that begins with the writer’s admission that he read both the Shaw and Updike … 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":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129","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=4129"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4130,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4129\/revisions\/4130"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}