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<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The University of Nevada\u2014Las Vegas main library has begun a series of online posts to promote reading and discovery of authors and books in the library, beginning with John Updike.<\/p>\n
“Lied’s Reads: John Updike,” by Alberto Lorio, began by saying “Everyone wants to stumble onto something interesting. . . . For UNLV students of an intellectual kind of faith, Lied Library graciously rewards those looking to wander. Though there are many deserving places for a wanderer to begin stumbling, the first of Lied’s great reads highlighted here will be the work of American author John Updike. Writer George Saunders described Updike as ‘a once-in-a-generation phenomenon if that generation is lucky.”<\/p>\n
“Updike was distinctly humanistic in his writing, exploring aspects of personal and social life in mid-century America. To him, writing was a sort of catharsis of the soul, one which came as spiritual release. It was a means of expression endemic to his meticulous observation: of individuals, of society, and of himself. . . .”<\/p>\n
“John Updike’s legacy remains that of a poetic, class-conscious, sociological sentimentalist. His writing is sincere in its exploration\u2014of the unifying, timeless eccentricity of being; of navigation in the labyrinthian strangeness inherent to our American lives.<\/p>\n
“Students hoping to stumble into John Updike should look to wander in the American Literature section of the fifth floor of Lied Library.”<\/p>\n
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The University of Nevada\u2014Las Vegas main library has begun a series of online posts to promote reading and discovery of authors and books in the library, beginning with John Updike. “Lied’s Reads: John Updike,” by Alberto Lorio, began by saying … Continue reading