{"id":4353,"date":"2018-03-08T22:43:53","date_gmt":"2018-03-09T04:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4353"},"modified":"2018-03-10T10:09:59","modified_gmt":"2018-03-10T16:09:59","slug":"updike-interview-book-re-released-in-paperback","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2018\/03\/08\/updike-interview-book-re-released-in-paperback\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike interview book re-released in paperback"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Lehigh University Press will re-release John Updike’s Pennsylvania Interviews<\/em>, edited by James Plath, in paperback on March 15, 2018. That’s good news for individuals who didn’t want to put out $105.00 for the hardcover version that was published in 2016. The paperback price at Amazon.com is $49.99.<\/p>\n

As James Schiff, editor of The John Updike Review<\/em>, writes in a descriptive blurb, “Once again, Jim Plath delivers a deeply engaging and important collection of Updike interviews. Stitching together 44 profiles and interviews conducted by a range of figures\u2013-Terry Gross, local journalists from the Reading Eagle<\/em>, a high school student\u2013-Plath, who adds his own introductory and concluding observations, proves a knowledgeable and emotionally invested guide. John Updike’s Pennsylvania Interviews<\/em> will appeal not only to general readers, academics, and students, but to those interested in listening to a writer who could string together sentences as beautifully as any figure from American literature. In taking its author back to the state he left in 1950, John Updike’s Pennsylvania Interviews<\/em> is a homecoming story that casts a spell and radiates with Updike\u2019s life-long affection for Pennsylvania. Plath has been a major player in Updike studies, and his latest effort should be required reading for those wishing to know more about the wunderkind from Shillington.”<\/p>\n

The cover photo of Updike at the Plowville farmhouse is by David Updike.<\/p>\n

Amazon link<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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