{"id":5570,"date":"2022-06-29T10:21:08","date_gmt":"2022-06-29T15:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5570"},"modified":"2022-06-29T10:24:13","modified_gmt":"2022-06-29T15:24:13","slug":"ny-times-book-critics-put-2021-in-the-rear-view-mirror","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2022\/06\/29\/ny-times-book-critics-put-2021-in-the-rear-view-mirror\/","title":{"rendered":"NY Times book critics put 2021 in the rear view mirror"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

It has come to our attention that an end-of-year article, “Times Critics Discuss 2021 in Books, From Breakout Stars to Cover Blurbs,”<\/a> managed to invoke John Updike in the process. Dwight Garner, Alexandra Jacobs, Jennifer Szalai, and Molly Young were asked questions about the book scene. Here’s one exchange:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Molly and Alexandra, you both started as book critics for The Times <\/em>in September. Any all-time favorite books of criticism that you would recommend people delve into over the holidays? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“JACOBS: John Updike\u2019s Hugging the Shore<\/em> and Odd Jobs<\/em> are the bookends of my Updike Shelf (about which, another time). Here was someone who didn\u2019t have<\/em> to review or consider his contemporaries or predecessors, and yet industriously, prolifically did. What generosity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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“YOUNG: Martin Amis’s collection The War Against Clich\u00e9.<\/em> His flow is insane.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“JACOBS: Wait, I meant to say that! Well, Amis has written about Updike and Updike about Martin’s father, Kingsley, so maybe this is a male literary turkucken . . . . “<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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