{"id":4260,"date":"2017-12-29T10:09:02","date_gmt":"2017-12-29T16:09:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4260"},"modified":"2017-12-29T10:09:02","modified_gmt":"2017-12-29T16:09:02","slug":"chip-kidd-talks-about-rabbit-run-and-nine-other-favorites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2017\/12\/29\/chip-kidd-talks-about-rabbit-run-and-nine-other-favorites\/","title":{"rendered":"Chip Kidd talks about Rabbit, Run and nine other favorites"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>One Grand Books asked celebs to name the 10 books they’d take with them to a desert island, and legendary designer Chip Kidd<\/strong>, who spoke at the 3rd Biennial John Updike Society Conference at Alvernia University in Reading, Pa., unsurprisingly listed Updike’s Rabbit, Run <\/em>as one of his titles. His comments are incredibly insightful, starting with Updike:<\/p>\n

Rabbit, Run<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, by John Updike<\/strong>
\nWhenever anyone asks me where I\u2019m from, I ask them if they\u2019re familiar with Updike\u2019s Rabbit <\/em>books. If they are, then they know exactly what it was like where I grew up. Updike\u2019s father was my father\u2019s high-school math teacher in tiny Shillington, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Reading. That the author returned to this completely unremarkable place for inspiration throughout his lifelong career is a source of endless fascination for me. I used to joke that it was like a great painter being inspired by the color beige.<\/p>\n

But how about his take on Salinger?<\/p>\n

Nine Stories<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, by J.D. Salinger<\/strong>
\nI know this is more than a little obvious, but it\u2019s also the only book of his that I enjoy rereading. There, I said it. In both \u201cA Perfect Day for Bananafish\u201d and \u201cFor Esm\u00e9 With Love and Squalor\u201d are two very different and devastating depictions of PTSD, a full seven decades before it was a thing.<\/p>\n

Or Nabokov?<\/p>\n

Lolita<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, by Vladimir Nabokov<\/strong>
\nAs a brilliantly merciless portrait of mid-20th-century middle America alone, this book is a masterpiece. But we all know it is much more than that. I tend to see it as an intriguingly fiendish parody of Moby-Dick<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Read the full article on Vulture<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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