{"id":6581,"date":"2025-04-03T22:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-04-04T03:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=6581"},"modified":"2025-04-04T21:29:15","modified_gmt":"2025-04-05T02:29:15","slug":"winter-2024-john-updike-review-is-published","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2025\/04\/03\/winter-2024-john-updike-review-is-published\/","title":{"rendered":"Winter 2024 John Updike Review is published"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"It’s not exactly a doorstop, but at 186 pages, the Vol. 11 No. 1 (Winter 2024) issue of The John Updike Review\u00a0<\/em>is the largest to date. From the striking cover\u2014a full-color photo of Updike with his father in a candid moment\u2014to end pages that feature opportunities for writers and scholars, this issue has a lot to offer.<\/p>\n

Featured is a section on “The Centaur\u00a0<\/em>at Sixty,” with essays from editor James Schiff, David Updike, and Updike scholars Sylvie Math\u00e9, D. Quentin Miller, Matthew Shipe, Biljana Doj\u010dinovi\u0107, and Peter J. Bailey that occupy 130 pages. Also included in the “three writers” series are essays from Robert Morace, Adam Reid Sexton, and Olga Karasik-Updike on The Witches of Eastwick\u00a0<\/em>film, plus an essay by Bailey on The Afterlife and Other Stories <\/em>and an essay from the most recent winner of the\u00a0John Updike Review Emerging Writer’s Prize<\/em>: “‘Bech Lied’: The (Un)Comfortable Idea of the Self in John Updike’s\u00a0Bech: A Book<\/em>,” by Joseph Ozias.<\/p>\n

Rounding out the issue is a “Letter from Tucson: The Shimmering Grid,” from Sue Norton, the first recipient of the John Updike Tucson Casitas Fellowship. Congratulations to Schiff and managing editor Nicola Mason on another exceptional issue. Physical copies of The John Updike Review\u00a0<\/em>are sent to society members in the U.S., with digital copies sent to other members except by arrangement. Information on joining the society can be found here<\/a>. Institutional subscriptions are available through EBSCO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

It’s not exactly a doorstop, but at 186 pages, the Vol. 11 No. 1 (Winter 2024) issue of The John Updike Review\u00a0is the largest to date. From the striking cover\u2014a full-color photo of Updike with his father in a candid … 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":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-john-updike-review"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581","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=6581"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6603,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6581\/revisions\/6603"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}