{"id":6848,"date":"2026-01-29T09:29:32","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:29:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=6848"},"modified":"2026-01-29T09:29:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T15:29:33","slug":"selected-letters-editor-offers-insights-on-updike-and-pennsylvania","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2026\/01\/29\/selected-letters-editor-offers-insights-on-updike-and-pennsylvania\/","title":{"rendered":"Selected Letters editor offers insights on Updike and Pennsylvania"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>James Schiff, vice president of <em>The John Updike Society<\/em> and editor of <em>The John Updike Review<\/em>, gave a great interview to Charles McElwee on <em>The Real Clear Pennsylvania Podcast.\u00a0<\/em> Schiff, a professor of English at the University of Cincinnati, talked about the <em>Selected Letters of John Updike<\/em>, which Schiff also edited and the debut of which the Updike Society celebrated in New York City in October 2025.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/mail.google.com\/mail\/u\/0\/#inbox\/WhctKLbvSVdBvvskffLXhnhgzTdgPvCfVgXGQdQGKJrVBlkRscqJcdKqMrjZjMBGwCZlqHg?projector=1\">Here&#8217;s the link<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2026\/01\/29\/selected-letters-editor-offers-insights-on-updike-and-pennsylvania\/screenshot-2026-01-29-at-9-25-51-am\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6849\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6849\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-29-at-9.25.51-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"336\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-29-at-9.25.51-AM.png 600w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-29-at-9.25.51-AM-300x168.png 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/01\/Screenshot-2026-01-29-at-9.25.51-AM-500x280.png 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>James Schiff, vice president of The John Updike Society and editor of The John Updike Review, gave a great interview to Charles McElwee on The Real Clear Pennsylvania Podcast.\u00a0 Schiff, a professor of English at the University of Cincinnati, talked &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2026\/01\/29\/selected-letters-editor-offers-insights-on-updike-and-pennsylvania\/\">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":[20,17,53,70,27],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasts","category-interviews","category-updike-in-context","category-updike-in-pop-culture","category-updikes-life-times"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848","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=6848"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6851,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848\/revisions\/6851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}