{"id":5066,"date":"2021-02-02T08:35:09","date_gmt":"2021-02-02T14:35:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5066"},"modified":"2021-02-02T08:35:09","modified_gmt":"2021-02-02T14:35:09","slug":"updike-recalled-in-well-known-painter-writers-short-story-collection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2021\/02\/02\/updike-recalled-in-well-known-painter-writers-short-story-collection\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike recalled in well-known painter-writer&#8217;s short story collection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2021\/02\/51gOGpPaltL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-5067\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2021\/02\/51gOGpPaltL-211x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"211\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2021\/02\/51gOGpPaltL-211x300.jpg 211w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2021\/02\/51gOGpPaltL.jpg 352w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 211px) 100vw, 211px\" \/><\/a>Born in 1946 in Ressen,Bulgaria, <strong>Dimitri Vojnov<\/strong> is a well-known artist (oils, acrylics, pastels, sculptures) living in Germany who is recognized by The Europa Authentica Cultural Organization as a Magister Artis.<\/p>\n<p>In 2020, he published a collection of short-short stories and illustrations, <em>Ready for New York\u00a0<\/em>(Norderstedt, Germany: Kelkheim, 2020). One of the stories is devoted to John Updike, whom Vojnov said &#8220;was a great inspiration to me.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>His <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vojnov.de\/index.php\">website<\/a> features a poem that in English reads, &#8220;I have pledged myself to painting, \/ like a monk to his church. \/ I do not preach, I confess. \/ I am not a painter, \/ I am a confessor&#8221;. Below is that story, &#8220;John Updike: Our Sex Instructor.&#8221; <em>Ready for New York<\/em>, is available in an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com.au\/Ready-New-York-Stories-Illustrations-ebook\/dp\/B08M48R9V1\">Amazon Kindle edition<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2021\/02\/Vojnov-Updike.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5068\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2021\/02\/Vojnov-Updike.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"590\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2021\/02\/Vojnov-Updike.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2021\/02\/Vojnov-Updike-407x300.jpg 407w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2021\/02\/Vojnov-Updike-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2021\/02\/Vojnov-Updike-768x566.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Born in 1946 in Ressen,Bulgaria, Dimitri Vojnov is a well-known artist (oils, acrylics, pastels, sculptures) living in Germany who is recognized by The Europa Authentica Cultural Organization as a Magister Artis. In 2020, he published a collection of short-short stories &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2021\/02\/02\/updike-recalled-in-well-known-painter-writers-short-story-collection\/\">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":[3,6,53],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5066","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","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\/5066","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=5066"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5069,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5066\/revisions\/5069"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}