{"id":4790,"date":"2019-05-30T21:52:32","date_gmt":"2019-05-31T02:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4790"},"modified":"2019-06-24T08:09:34","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T13:09:34","slug":"gopnik-calls-updike-the-first-fully-expressed-american-writer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2019\/05\/30\/gopnik-calls-updike-the-first-fully-expressed-american-writer\/","title":{"rendered":"Gopnik calls Updike the first fully expressed American writer"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"391\" height=\"292\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-30-at-8.45.40-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4791\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-30-at-8.45.40-PM.png 391w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/05\/Screen-Shot-2019-05-30-at-8.45.40-PM-300x224.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 391px) 100vw, 391px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>In a video post on the Library of America website titled <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loa.org\/news-and-views\/1514-adam-gopnik-the-secret-behind-john-updikes-productivity\">&#8220;Adam Gopnik: The secret behind John Updike&#8217;s productivity,&#8221;<\/a> the <em>New Yorker<\/em> writer called Updike the &#8220;first fully expressed American writer&#8221;\u2014meaning there was nothing of his that he didn&#8217;t leave behind that readers wished he had. He wrote everything, and he wrote it well. Why? <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>We won&#8217;t give that away. For that, you&#8217;ll have to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.loa.org\/news-and-views\/1514-adam-gopnik-the-secret-behind-john-updikes-productivity\">watch the short video<\/a>, because Gopnik&#8217;s answer has the weight of a punch line. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a video post on the Library of America website titled &#8220;Adam Gopnik: The secret behind John Updike&#8217;s productivity,&#8221; the New Yorker writer called Updike the &#8220;first fully expressed American writer&#8221;\u2014meaning there was nothing of his that he didn&#8217;t leave &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2019\/05\/30\/gopnik-calls-updike-the-first-fully-expressed-american-writer\/\">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":[53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updike-in-context"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790","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=4790"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4792,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4790\/revisions\/4792"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4790"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4790"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4790"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}