{"id":5131,"date":"2021-06-05T09:31:03","date_gmt":"2021-06-05T14:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5131"},"modified":"2021-06-05T09:31:03","modified_gmt":"2021-06-05T14:31:03","slug":"updikes-first-new-york-times-mention-came-in-a-parenting-article","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2021\/06\/05\/updikes-first-new-york-times-mention-came-in-a-parenting-article\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike’s first New York Times mention came in a parenting article"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photo:\u00a0 Joyce Dopkeen\/The New York Times<\/em><\/p>\n

Here’s a fascinating bit of trivia:\u00a0 John Updike\u2014reviewed and interviewed at least as much and probably more than any other writer\u2014first appeared in The New York Times<\/em> not in connection with his writing, but rather his parenting.<\/p>\n

Way back on March 2, 1958,<\/em> Dorothy Barclay<\/strong> compiled an article on “The Magic World of Words” <\/a>that appeared in The Times<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The public was reminded of this by a recent article, “John Updike on Parenting, Agatha Christie in the Gossip Pages: First Mentions of Famous Authors in The Times.”<\/a><\/p>\n

“Not long before his first novel, The Poorhouse Fair<\/em>, was published, Updike\u2014already an acclaimed short-story writer\u2014was featured in a parenting article<\/a>, ‘The Magic World of Words,’ which discussed the best ways to spark a child\u2019s love for language. Updike, the father of toddlers, told the paper in 1958, ‘When children are picking up words with rapidity, between 2 and 3, say, tell them the true word for something even if it is fairly abstruse and long. A long correct word is exciting for a child. Makes them laugh; my daughter never says “rhinoceros” without laughing.’\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Photo:\u00a0 Joyce Dopkeen\/The New York Times Here’s a fascinating bit of trivia:\u00a0 John Updike\u2014reviewed and interviewed at least as much and probably more than any other writer\u2014first appeared in The New York Times not in connection with his writing, but … 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":[10,35,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-publications","category-updike-quoted","category-updikes-life-times"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131","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=5131"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5133,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5131\/revisions\/5133"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}