{"id":5013,"date":"2020-07-09T09:51:25","date_gmt":"2020-07-09T14:51:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5013"},"modified":"2020-07-09T09:51:25","modified_gmt":"2020-07-09T14:51:25","slug":"latest-john-updike-review-spotlights-the-maples-stories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2020\/07\/09\/latest-john-updike-review-spotlights-the-maples-stories\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest John Updike Review spotlights The Maples Stories"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The John Updike Review<\/em><\/strong> Vol. 7 No. 2 (Spring 2020) was recently published, and in it editor James Schiff turned the spotlight on The Maples Stories<\/em>, Updike’s 18-story sequence chronicling the marriage\u2014and divorce\u2014of Richard and Joan Maple, characters based on the author and his first wife, Mary Pennington Updike.<\/p>\n

In the “Three Writers on . . .” section\u2014an innovative feature that distinguishes the journal from all others\u2014Schiff (“Updike’s Maples Stories<\/em> among Literary Depictions of Marriage”) joined Marshall Boswell (“The Maples Stories<\/em> and the ‘Twilight of the Old Morality'”), Gail Sinclair (“How Far to Have Come: Updike’s Stories of a Marriage”), and Biljana Doj\u010dinovi\u0107 (“‘A Beautiful Disaster’: Marriage in Updike’s Maples Stories<\/em>“), who reprised comments made on a Maples Stories<\/em> panel at the May 2019 American Literature Association conference moderated by society president James Plath.<\/p>\n

The essays section features contributions from Donald J. Greiner (“Will John Updike ‘Sink’?: Posthumous Reputation and the Fickleness of Literary Fame”), Peter J. Bailey (“Updike’s David Kern Stories”), Sue Norton (“Writing and Well Being: Story as Salve in the Work of (More than) Two Updikes”) and Adel Nouar (“From Irony to Empathy and Back in John Updike’s Terrorist<\/em>“).<\/p>\n

Also included is “The Political Dimension of Updike’s Writing” by Laurence W. Mazzeno, a review of Updike & Politics: New Considerations<\/em>, edited by Matthew Shipe and Scott Dill.<\/p>\n

Print copies and access to online back issues are included with membership<\/a> in The John Updike Society. The John Updike Review<\/em> is published by the University of Cincinnati and The John Updike Society, with James Schiff serving as editor and Nicola Mason managing editor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The John Updike Review Vol. 7 No. 2 (Spring 2020) was recently published, and in it editor James Schiff turned the spotlight on The Maples Stories, Updike’s 18-story sequence chronicling the marriage\u2014and divorce\u2014of Richard and Joan Maple, characters based on … Continue reading →<\/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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-updike-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013","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=5013"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5015,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5013\/revisions\/5015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}