Updike Society program set for ALA

The John Updike Society will sponsor one roundtable discussion and one panel of papers at the American Literature Association conference in Boston, Mass., on May 25-26, 2017:

Did Updike’s Rabbit Angstrom Anticipate or Parallel the Rise of Trump Voters?9:00-10:20 a.m., Thursday, May 25

• Moderator: James Plath, Illinois Wesleyan University

• Jerome Loving, Texas A&M University

• Marshall Boswell, Rhodes College

• Scott Dill, Case Western Reserve University

• Quentin Miller, Suffolk University

• Richard G. Androne, Albright College

John Updike: Comparatively Speaking2:20-3:30 p.m., Friday, May 26

• Chair: Sylvie Mathé, Aix-Marseille University

• “The Work of Mind: John Updike’s Fiction and Ian McEwan’s Saturday,” Biljana Dojčinović, University of Belgrade

• “’That a marriage ends is less than ideal’: Revisiting Updike’s Maples Stories,” James Schiff, University of Cincinnati

• “The ‘Personal’ in John Updike’s Pennsylvania and His ‘Dialogues’ with Kenzaburo Oe: The ‘I-Novel’ Tradition of Japan and the Writers’ Reading in the Societies Divided,” Takashi Nakatani, Yokohama City University

A business meeting of the Society is scheduled for Thursday, May 25, from 10:30-11:50 a.m. All are welcome to attend, but must register for the conference. Here’s the entire program.