{"id":824,"date":"2011-05-23T07:19:01","date_gmt":"2011-05-23T12:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=824"},"modified":"2011-10-28T08:30:15","modified_gmt":"2011-10-28T13:30:15","slug":"amazon-is-now-taking-preorders-for-higher-gossip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2011\/05\/23\/amazon-is-now-taking-preorders-for-higher-gossip\/","title":{"rendered":"Amazon is now taking preorders for Higher Gossip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2011\/05\/highergossip.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-825\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/files\/2011\/05\/highergossip-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>Amazon.com has begun accepting preorders for <em>Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism<\/em>, edited by Christopher Carduff. Here&#8217;s the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Higher-Gossip-Criticism-John-Updike\/dp\/0307957152\/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&amp;s=books&amp;qid=1306152734&amp;sr=1-1\">link<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>As we reported earlier, <em>Higher Gossip<\/em> is divided into five sections:<\/p>\n<p>\u201cReal Conversation\u201d consists of two previously published personal essays, one previously published humorous piece, three previously published short fictions, and six poems (\u201dThe Lovelorn Astronomer,\u201d \u201cBasium XVI,\u201d \u201cHead of a Girl, at the Met,\u201d \u201cCafeteria, Mass. General Hospital,\u201d \u201cAn Hour Without Color,\u201d and \u201cNot Cancelled Yet.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBook Chat\u201d includes three speeches (\u201dHumor in Fiction,\u201d \u201cThe Plight of the American Writer,\u201d and \u201cThe Written Word\u201d); tributes to Kierkegaard, Fitzgerald, Hemingway, Sissman, and Carver; three forewords\/afterwords; and 15 book reviews.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGallery Tours\u201d features 20 essays on art, and \u201cPet Topics\u201d contains three previously published essays on science, six musings on Massachusetts (including \u201cHarvard Square in the Fifties,\u201d \u201cIpswich in the Seventies,\u201d and \u201cMemoirs of a Massachusetts Golfer\u201d), and five post-<em>Golf Dreams<\/em> writings on golf.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTable Talk\u201d is the ephemeral category, including remarks made at book conventions, short musing, forewords, addresses, letters, prefaces, notes, and a humorous piece on \u201cThe original ending of\u00a0<em>Self-Consciousness.<\/em>\u201c<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Amazon.com has begun accepting preorders for Higher Gossip: Essays and Criticism, edited by Christopher Carduff. Here&#8217;s the link. As we reported earlier, Higher Gossip is divided into five sections: \u201cReal Conversation\u201d consists of two previously published personal essays, one previously &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2011\/05\/23\/amazon-is-now-taking-preorders-for-higher-gossip\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-824","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824","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\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=824"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":927,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/824\/revisions\/927"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}