{"id":4888,"date":"2019-08-19T13:46:54","date_gmt":"2019-08-19T18:46:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=4888"},"modified":"2019-08-19T13:46:54","modified_gmt":"2019-08-19T18:46:54","slug":"lorrie-moore-to-deliver-keynote-at-2020-john-updike-conference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2019\/08\/19\/lorrie-moore-to-deliver-keynote-at-2020-john-updike-conference\/","title":{"rendered":"Lorrie Moore to deliver keynote at 2020 John Updike Conference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Writer <strong>Lorrie Moore<\/strong> will travel to Shillington-Reading to deliver the keynote talk at the 6<sup>th<\/sup> Biennial John Updike Society Conference at Alvernia University. The conference will take place the first week in October 2020, which coincides with the October 3 grand opening and dedication of The John Updike Childhood Home.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/08\/220px-Lorrie_Moore.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-4889\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2019\/08\/220px-Lorrie_Moore.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"284\" \/><\/a>Like Updike, Moore received the prestigious Rea Award for the Short Story, given annually to a living American writer who has made significant contributions to the genre. And like Updike, Moore won the O. Henry Award for a short story that was first published in <em>The New Yorker. <\/em>Updike and Moore were both admirers of each other\u2019s work, and both authors worked in multiple genres\u2014novels, short stories, non-fiction, children\u2019s books, essays, and criticism.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHer review of <em>The Early Stories<\/em> is one of my favorite takes on Updike,\u201d JUS board member Matthew Shipe said. That review was reprinted in Moore\u2019s collection of essays and reviews, <em>See What Can Be Done<\/em> (Knopf, 2018). Over the years Moore has published five collections of short stories (<em>Self-Help<\/em>, 1985; <em>Like Life<\/em>, 1990; <em>Birds of America<\/em>, 1998; <em>The Collected Stories<\/em>, 2008; and <em>Bark<\/em>, 2014) as well as three novels (<em>Anagrams<\/em>, 1986; <em>Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?<\/em>, 1994; and <em>A Gate at the Stairs<\/em>, 2009); a children\u2019s book (<em>The Forgotten Helper<\/em>, 1987), and that aforementioned collection of essays.<\/p>\n<p><em>Birds of America <\/em>won <em>The Irish Times<\/em> International Fiction Prize and brought her wide acclaim, with Alison Lurie remarking that Moore is \u201cthe nearest thing we have to Checkhov.\u201d If that sounds heady, readers who want to explore the finer points of Moore\u2019s work need look no further than <em>Understanding Lorrie Moore<\/em>, published in the respected major author series by the University of South Carolina Press and written by Alison Kelly, who notes, \u201cMoore\u2019s adroit pen portraits of places and people reflect her overarching artistic purpose, which she has described as \u2018trying to register the way we, here in America, live.\u2019 . . . Moore anatomizes American society as revealingly in her way as do writers such as John Updike or Tom Wolfe . . . .\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Updike had included Moore\u2019s <em>New Yorker <\/em>story \u201cYou\u2019re Ugly, Too\u201d in <em>The Best American Short Stories of the Century<\/em>, which he edited. Moore is currently the Gertrude Conaway Vanderbilt Professor of English at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tenn.<\/p>\n<p>More information about the conference and conference registration will be forthcoming.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Writer Lorrie Moore will travel to Shillington-Reading to deliver the keynote talk at the 6th Biennial John Updike Society Conference at Alvernia University. The conference will take place the first week in October 2020, which coincides with the October 3 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2019\/08\/19\/lorrie-moore-to-deliver-keynote-at-2020-john-updike-conference\/\">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":[69],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-6th-biennial-jus-conference"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888","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=4888"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4890,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4888\/revisions\/4890"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}