{"id":6921,"date":"2026-03-07T17:58:06","date_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:58:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=6921"},"modified":"2026-03-07T17:58:06","modified_gmt":"2026-03-07T23:58:06","slug":"michael-updike-reads-his-fathers-letters-at-an-ipswich-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2026\/03\/07\/michael-updike-reads-his-fathers-letters-at-an-ipswich-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Michael Updike reads his father’s letters at an Ipswich event"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Michael Updike has been touring to promote\u00a0Selected Letters of John Updike\u2014<\/em>as his father would have done, were he still with us. Interest in Updike has remained high in Ipswich, where the Updike’s lived for many years and where he wrote in an office on the second floor of the Caldwell Building.<\/p>\n

Those who introduced him at The Ipswich Museum remarked how they had never seen the room so crowded, and Michael shared their marvel\u2014especially, he noted, since it was a cold Super Bowl Sunday.<\/p>\n

Those in attendance, and those who watch will especially enjoy the commentaries provided by Michael\u2014starting with an explanation for the “garish” bull and bear necktie he wore, explaining that his father was invited to ring the bell to start the trading and was gifted the tie on that occasion.<\/p>\n

Here is the link to the video recording.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Michael Updike has been touring to promote\u00a0Selected Letters of John Updike\u2014as his father would have done, were he still with us. Interest in Updike has remained high in Ipswich, where the Updike’s lived for many years and where he wrote … 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":[75,53,35],"tags":[101,39,29],"class_list":["post-6921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-updike-family","category-updike-in-context","category-updike-quoted","tag-selected-letters-of-john-updike","tag-ipswich","tag-john-updike"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921","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=6921"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6924,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6921\/revisions\/6924"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}