{"id":6292,"date":"2023-12-01T21:56:29","date_gmt":"2023-12-02T03:56:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=6292"},"modified":"2023-12-01T21:56:29","modified_gmt":"2023-12-02T03:56:29","slug":"journalist-recalls-being-updikes-muse-returns-to-shillington","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2023\/12\/01\/journalist-recalls-being-updikes-muse-returns-to-shillington\/","title":{"rendered":"Journalist recalls being Updike&#8217;s muse, returns to Shillington"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-6293\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/12\/Screen-Shot-2023-12-01-at-9.53.34-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"311\" height=\"82\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/12\/Screen-Shot-2023-12-01-at-9.53.34-PM.png 311w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2023\/12\/Screen-Shot-2023-12-01-at-9.53.34-PM-300x79.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 311px) 100vw, 311px\" \/>Not everyone who recognizes themselves in a writer&#8217;s fiction or poetry is pleased, but William Ecenbarger took delight in recalling his 1983 interview with John Updike that inspired Updike to write &#8220;One More Interview.&#8221; Then a writer for the <em>Philadelphia Inquirer<\/em>, Ecenbarger managed to score his interview with Updike through the writer&#8217;s mother, Linda. It was no ordinary interview.<\/p>\n<p>For this one, Updike got in a car with Ecenbarger and gave him a personally narrated tour of &#8220;Updike country&#8221;: Shillington, Plowville, and Reading-area boyhood haunts that factored into his fiction and poetry. That interview was partially quoted in the first chapter of Adam Begley&#8217;s biography of <em>Updike<\/em> and included in complete form in <em>John Updike&#8217;s Pennsylvania Interviews.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Ecenbarger recalled that 1983 interview and a more recent trip he made to The John Updike Childhood Home in &#8220;John Updike&#8217;s Muse,&#8221; published on the <em>InTheKnow Traveler.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"https:\/\/intheknowtraveler.com\/john-updikes-muse\/\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not everyone who recognizes themselves in a writer&#8217;s fiction or poetry is pleased, but William Ecenbarger took delight in recalling his 1983 interview with John Updike that inspired Updike to write &#8220;One More Interview.&#8221; Then a writer for the Philadelphia &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2023\/12\/01\/journalist-recalls-being-updikes-muse-returns-to-shillington\/\">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":[6,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-first-person-singular","category-the-john-updike-childhood-home"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6292","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=6292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6294,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6292\/revisions\/6294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}