{"id":4739,"date":"2019-04-29T21:24:21","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T02:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4739"},"modified":"2019-05-18T11:36:18","modified_gmt":"2019-05-18T16:36:18","slug":"participants-sought-for-new-orleans-panel-on-updike-short-fiction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2019\/04\/29\/participants-sought-for-new-orleans-panel-on-updike-short-fiction\/","title":{"rendered":"Participants sought for New Orleans panel on Updike short fiction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>John Updike Society board member Robert Luscher is looking for Updike enthusiasts to participate in a panel at a September 5-7, 2019 symposium in New Orleans hosted by The <a href=\"http:\/\/americanshortstory.org\/\">Society for the Study of the American Short Story<\/a>. Proposals are due by June 15, 2019. If interested, send a short abstract (100-200 words) on proposed topics to Robert Luscher (luscherr@unk) no later than June 7. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Further information on the conference, &#8220;The American Short Story: New Considerations&#8221; can be found in the official <a href=\"http:\/\/americanliteratureassociation.org\/ala-conferences\/ala-symposia\/ala-symposium-the-american-short-story-new-considerations\/\">Call for Papers<\/a>. The symposium will be held at the Hotel Monteleone, a historic 1886 hotel in the heart of the French Quarter located within a short walk of virtually all the literary locations. It&#8217;s one of the last great family-owned and operated hotels in New Orleans, now operated by a fifth generation. Some of the famous writers who stayed there include Ernest Hemingway, Tennessee Williams, William Faulkner, Truman Capote, Anne Rice, Stephen Ambrose, and John Grisham. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"623\" height=\"416\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/04\/hotel-monteleone-new-orleans-hotel-exterior1-623x416.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4740\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/04\/hotel-monteleone-new-orleans-hotel-exterior1-623x416.jpg 623w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/04\/hotel-monteleone-new-orleans-hotel-exterior1-623x416-449x300.jpg 449w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/04\/hotel-monteleone-new-orleans-hotel-exterior1-623x416-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 623px) 100vw, 623px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>John Updike Society board member Robert Luscher is looking for Updike enthusiasts to participate in a panel at a September 5-7, 2019 symposium in New Orleans hosted by The Society for the Study of the American Short Story. Proposals are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2019\/04\/29\/participants-sought-for-new-orleans-panel-on-updike-short-fiction\/\">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":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4739","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-calls-for-papers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739","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=4739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4741,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4739\/revisions\/4741"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}