{"id":6956,"date":"2026-05-01T19:36:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T00:36:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=6956"},"modified":"2026-05-01T19:36:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T00:36:30","slug":"james-schiff-and-michael-updike-to-talk-about-the-selected-letters-via-zoom-session","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2026\/05\/01\/james-schiff-and-michael-updike-to-talk-about-the-selected-letters-via-zoom-session\/","title":{"rendered":"James Schiff and Michael Updike to talk about the Selected Letters via Zoom session"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2026\/05\/01\/james-schiff-and-michael-updike-to-talk-about-the-selected-letters-via-zoom-session\/685842657_10243970752190144_5856640155672997563_n\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-6957\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-6957\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/05\/685842657_10243970752190144_5856640155672997563_n.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"480\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/05\/685842657_10243970752190144_5856640155672997563_n.jpg 480w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/05\/685842657_10243970752190144_5856640155672997563_n-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2026\/05\/685842657_10243970752190144_5856640155672997563_n-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 480px) 100vw, 480px\" \/><\/a>If you haven&#8217;t been able to attend one of the events featuring\u00a0<em>Selected Letters of John Updike\u00a0<\/em>editor James Schiff and Michael Updike, the author&#8217;s son, here&#8217;s your chance:<\/p>\n<p>The Brattleboro Literary Festival invites everyone to join them on Wednesday, May 13, 2026 at 4pm Central Time for a session featuring Schiff and Michael Updike &#8220;in conversation with Schiff&#8217;s book . . . which was named a <em>New York Times Book Review<\/em> Editors&#8217; Choice and listed as one of <em>The New Yorker<\/em>&#8216;s Best Books of the Year and one of the Wall Street Journal&#8217;s Best Books of the Fall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Registration is required. Here&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/us02web.zoom.us\/webinar\/register\/WN_nepihSl-SjScJP9BmmtpYw?fbclid=IwY2xjawRiIJRleHRuA2FlbQIxMABicmlkETF6QnRGekFMQUdTbjhUUUtJc3J0YwZhcHBfaWQQMjIyMDM5MTc4ODIwMDg5MgABHpljUQDosCshCG6MpgMePHa3TehT46x3waBewAwKUhy4wiIySwf5jmMUAaN7_aem_N3yeQKvNv7rJubTy1EBFdA#\/registration\">the link.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you haven&#8217;t been able to attend one of the events featuring\u00a0Selected Letters of John Updike\u00a0editor James Schiff and Michael Updike, the author&#8217;s son, here&#8217;s your chance: The Brattleboro Literary Festival invites everyone to join them on Wednesday, May 13, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2026\/05\/01\/james-schiff-and-michael-updike-to-talk-about-the-selected-letters-via-zoom-session\/\">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":[3,12,93],"tags":[101,107,29,108,66],"class_list":["post-6956","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-events","category-readings-talks","tag-selected-letters-of-john-updike","tag-james-schiff","tag-john-updike","tag-literary-events","tag-michael-updike"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956","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=6956"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6959,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6956\/revisions\/6959"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}