{"id":4386,"date":"2018-03-28T13:36:44","date_gmt":"2018-03-28T18:36:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4386"},"modified":"2018-03-28T14:14:52","modified_gmt":"2018-03-28T19:14:52","slug":"moore-comments-on-updike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2018\/03\/28\/moore-comments-on-updike\/","title":{"rendered":"Moore comments on Updike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2018\/03\/Moore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-4387\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2018\/03\/Moore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"179\" height=\"267\" \/><\/a>The New York Times <\/em>just published a review of Lorrie Moore\u2019s collection of essays and reviews, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/See-What-Can-Done-Commentary\/dp\/1524732486\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;qid=1522258032&amp;sr=8-1&amp;keywords=see+what+can+be+done\"><strong><em>See What Can Be Done<\/em><\/strong><\/a>, which included the acclaimed author\u2019s review for John Updike\u2019s early short stories.<\/p>\n<p>As Dwight Garner writes, \u201cReviewing a collection of John Updike\u2019s early short stories (she deeply admires them), Moore recalls that Updike said he left New York City because it was \u2018overrun with agents and wisenheimers.\u2019 She ushers in \u2018a literary friend of mine\u2019 to catch the vague aroma of anti-Semitism there. \u2018Agents and wisenheimers,\u2019 the friend asks. \u2018Is that Shillington, Pennsylvania, for \u2018Hymietown?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Moore\u2019s \u201cgreat feelers\u201d for fictional works allow her to notice \u201cthe way ordinary friendship is largely missing from Updike\u2019s work.\u201d She also recalled Updike leaving New York because it was \u201coverrun with agents and wisenheimers,\u201d which her \u201cliterary friend\u201d noted as emitting \u201cthe vague aroma of anti-Semitism.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Updike\u2019s name comes up more than once. In another reference, Garner writes, \u201cThree panegyrics to Alice Munro are two too many. Upon arriving at the third, I thought of the older editor at The New York Times Book Review who said to me early in my tenure there: \u2018If I have to read another thousand words about John Updike, I am going to hurl myself out that goddamn window.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He notes as well, \u201cIn her reviews of fiction (by Margaret Atwood, Joan Silber, Bobbie Ann Mason, Philip Roth, Stanley Elkin and Richard Ford, among many others), she has great feelers. She notices the way ordinary friendship is largely missing from Updike\u2019s work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/03\/26\/books\/review-lorrie-moore-see-what-can-be-done.html\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Times just published a review of Lorrie Moore\u2019s collection of essays and reviews, See What Can Be Done, which included the acclaimed author\u2019s review for John Updike\u2019s early short stories. As Dwight Garner writes, \u201cReviewing a collection &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2018\/03\/28\/moore-comments-on-updike\/\">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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reviews"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386","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=4386"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4389,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4386\/revisions\/4389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}