{"id":268146,"date":"2009-01-28T13:33:19","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T13:33:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wdev.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent-dev\/2009\/01\/28\/john-updike-1932-2009\/"},"modified":"2018-04-16T17:24:26","modified_gmt":"2018-04-16T17:24:26","slug":"john-updike-1932-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/2009\/01\/28\/john-updike-1932-2009\/","title":{"rendered":"John Updike (1932-2009)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I read the Rabbit books at too young an age to ever fully appreciate John Updike&#8217;s work. But once I started working at Dalkey, the thing I did appreciate was his amazing literary taste. Over and again we would be reprinting a somewhat obscure author, like Robert Pinget, and in searching for reviews and quotes about the book, we&#8217;d turn up a lengthy <em>New Yorker<\/em> essay by Updike about this great literary find. (It&#8217;s cool that there was a time when critics could write long glowing pieces about international authors virtually unknown to the American public. But that&#8217;s a subject for a different post.) <\/p>\n<p>If for nothing else, Updike will be missed for his stature as a true &#8220;man of letters.&#8221; There are many people like that left in the world. <\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/28\/books\/28updike.html?_r=2&#38;hp\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a> has a great overview of his life and work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I read the Rabbit books at too young an age to ever fully appreciate John Updike&#8217;s work. But once I started working at Dalkey, the thing I did appreciate was his amazing literary taste. Over and again we would be reprinting a somewhat obscure author, like Robert Pinget, and in searching for reviews [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":292,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67486],"tags":[1836,19146,226,2686,1596,1646],"class_list":["post-268146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cwp","tag-john-updike","tag-new-york-times","tag-new-yorker","tag-obituary","tag-review"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/292"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=268146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":324516,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268146\/revisions\/324516"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=268146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=268146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rochester.edu\/College\/translation\/threepercent\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=268146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}