{"id":403,"date":"2006-05-26T15:39:49","date_gmt":"2006-05-26T21:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/wp\/?p=403"},"modified":"2006-05-26T15:39:49","modified_gmt":"2006-05-26T21:39:49","slug":"updikes_speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/?p=403","title":{"rendered":"Updike&#8217;s speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sid Steward, a Rough Type reader, alerted me to the fact that BookExpo America has just released an audio recording of <a href=\"http:\/\/bookexpocast.com\/?p=12\">John Updike&#8217;s speech<\/a> from last weekend, in which he responds to Kevin Kelly&#8217;s New York Times article &#8220;Scan This Book!&#8221; (I discussed Kelly&#8217;s article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/archives\/2006\/05\/unbound.php\">here<\/a> and Updike&#8217;s response <a href=\"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/archives\/2006\/05\/keep_your_edges.php\">here<\/a>.) As BookExpo says, &#8220;Mr. Updike abandoned a speech about his new book, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0307264653\/amazingbooks0b0\">Terrorist<\/a>, in favor of a passionate discussion of books and booksellers &#8211; whom he called &#8216;the citadels of light.'&#8221; I haven&#8217;t listened to it yet, but Sid says, &#8220;It moved me to tears.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks, Sid.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sid Steward, a Rough Type reader, alerted me to the fact that BookExpo America has just released an audio recording of John Updike&#8217;s speech from last weekend, in which he responds to Kevin Kelly&#8217;s New York Times article &#8220;Scan This Book!&#8221; (I discussed Kelly&#8217;s article here and Updike&#8217;s response here.) As BookExpo says, &#8220;Mr. Updike [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-403","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=403"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/403\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=403"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=403"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.roughtype.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=403"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}