{"id":4611,"date":"2019-01-30T17:37:10","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T23:37:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4611"},"modified":"2019-01-30T20:16:50","modified_gmt":"2019-01-31T02:16:50","slug":"interviewed-memoirist-mentions-updike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2019\/01\/30\/interviewed-memoirist-mentions-updike\/","title":{"rendered":"Interviewed memoirist mentions Updike"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"138\" height=\"223\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/01\/Screen-Shot-2019-01-30-at-4.33.52-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4612\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>John Updike was mentioned in \u200b<em>The Forward<\/em>\u200b\u2019s article, \u201cOn The Books: 5 Questions For Stephen Shepard, Author Of \u200b<em>A Literary Journey To Jewish Identity<\/em>: <em>Re-Reading Bellow, Roth, Malamud, Ozick, and Other Great Jewish Writers,<\/em>\u201d in which Shepard discussed his upcoming memoir about self-discovery within Jewish-American literature. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shepard said the addition of Updike \u201cwas the wild card\u201d in the canon, but one he felt a personal connection to: \u201cI was a big Updike fan, so I just started going back to reread them and wrote about the so-called \u2018Jewish Updike.\u2019\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Shepard explained his preference for earlier Jewish writers over conemporary ones: \u201cThe Jewish writers back then meant something to me,\u201d he said. \u201cI wasn\u2019t grappling now with the same issues that I was then about my Jewish identity and what it meant to be a Jew in post-war America.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read the <a href=\"https:\/\/forward.com\/culture\/qa\/411880\/5-questions-for-stephen-shepard-author-of-a-literary-jour ney-to-jewish\/\">full article here.<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Updike was mentioned in \u200bThe Forward\u200b\u2019s article, \u201cOn The Books: 5 Questions For Stephen Shepard, Author Of \u200bA Literary Journey To Jewish Identity: Re-Reading Bellow, Roth, Malamud, Ozick, and Other Great Jewish Writers,\u201d in which Shepard discussed his upcoming &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2019\/01\/30\/interviewed-memoirist-mentions-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":[6,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4611","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular","category-updike-in-context"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611","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=4611"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4613,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4611\/revisions\/4613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}