{"id":6181,"date":"2023-07-15T08:41:45","date_gmt":"2023-07-15T13:41:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=6181"},"modified":"2023-07-15T08:41:47","modified_gmt":"2023-07-15T13:41:47","slug":"ipswich-humorist-shares-his-updike-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2023\/07\/15\/ipswich-humorist-shares-his-updike-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Ipswich humorist shares his Updike dream"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-default\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-15-at-7.38.08-AM.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"449\" height=\"447\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-15-at-7.38.08-AM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-6182\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-15-at-7.38.08-AM.png 449w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-15-at-7.38.08-AM-150x150.png 150w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-15-at-7.38.08-AM-300x300.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/07\/Screen-Shot-2023-07-15-at-7.38.08-AM-301x300.png 301w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 449px) 100vw, 449px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Updike had his <em>Golf Dreams<\/em>, and Bob Waite, who writes for <em>The Local News <\/em>in the North Shore area, had his own Updike dream to share with readers on July 13, 2023. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In the dream, I discovered an unpublished John Updike manuscript titled <em>Threesomes<\/em> in his old office above the Choate Bridge Pub.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;My excitement was palpable. Could this be the long-awaited sequel to <em>Couples<\/em>, Updike&#8217;s 1968 novel chronicling the intertwining of 10 couples in a town called Tarbox? A town that bore a striking resemblance to Ipswich?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;<em>Couples<\/em> also bore a passing resemblance to another New England-set potboiler, Grace Metalious&#8217; <em>Peyton Place<\/em>, which came out when Mia Farrow was as pre-teen and Woody Allen was still funny. Except <em>Couples<\/em> was better written and more explicit.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thelocalnews.news\/2023\/07\/13\/lite-waite-dreaming-of-threesomes-john-updikes-unpublished-sequel-to-couples\/\">Read the full article.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updike had his Golf Dreams, and Bob Waite, who writes for The Local News in the North Shore area, had his own Updike dream to share with readers on July 13, 2023. &#8220;In the dream, I discovered an unpublished John &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2023\/07\/15\/ipswich-humorist-shares-his-updike-dream\/\">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":[6,45,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular","category-humor","category-updikes-life-times"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6181","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=6181"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6181\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6183,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6181\/revisions\/6183"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}