{"id":5731,"date":"2022-09-18T10:43:54","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T15:43:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5731"},"modified":"2022-09-18T10:43:56","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T15:43:56","slug":"ian-mcewan-names-18-books-in-fun-categories","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2022\/09\/18\/ian-mcewan-names-18-books-in-fun-categories\/","title":{"rendered":"Ian McEwan names 18 books in fun categories"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Elle<\/em> magazine’s Riza Cruz asked award-winning author and book lover Ian McEwan<\/strong> (Atonement<\/em>, Lessons<\/em>) to name favorite books in 18 different categories\u2014a bit more fun than the usual Top 10 format. His non-annotated responses are below. For the Full Monty you’ll need to read the Shelf Life books column article<\/a> . . . on the book that:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Made him miss a train stop: The Caine Mutiny<\/em> (Herman Wouk)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Made him weep: Madame Bovary<\/em> (Gustave Flaubert)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He would recommend: The Dead<\/em> (James Joyce)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Shaped his worldview: The Female Eunuch<\/em> (Germaine Greer)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Made him rethink a long-held belief: The Radetzky March<\/em> (Joseph Roth)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He read in one sitting, it was that good: Youth<\/em> (Joseph Conrad)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Currently sits on his nightstand: We Don’t Know Ourselves<\/em> (Fintan O’Toole)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He’d pass on to his kid: God is Not Great<\/em> (Christopher Hitchens)<\/p>\n\n\n

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He’d gift to a new graduate: On the Origin of Species<\/em> (Charles Darwin)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Made him laugh out loud: The Bech Trilogy<\/em> [The Complete Henry Bech<\/em>] by John Updike<\/strong>. Bech is Updike’s Nobel Prize-winning, Jewish alter ego, whose literary career rises, nosedives, and rises again. By the end, Bech murders his various hostile critics and is heroically damned by a dying victim. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

He’d like to turn into a Netflix show: We Had to Remove This Post<\/em> (Hanna Bervoets)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He first bought: Under the Net <\/em>(Iris Murdoch)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He last bought: The Darkroom of Damocles<\/em> (Willem Frederik Hermans)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Has the best title: What Katy Did<\/em> (Susan Coolidge)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Has the best opening line: Herzog<\/em> (Saul Bellow)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Has the greatest ending: Reunion<\/em> (Fred Uhlman)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Everyone should read: Middlemarch<\/em> (George Eliot)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Holds the recipe to a favorite dish: Appetite<\/em> (Nigel Slater)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Elle magazine’s Riza Cruz asked award-winning author and book lover Ian McEwan (Atonement, Lessons) to name favorite books in 18 different categories\u2014a bit more fun than the usual Top 10 format. His non-annotated responses are below. For the Full Monty … 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":[6,32],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular","category-lists"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731","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=5731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5733,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5731\/revisions\/5733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}