{"id":439,"date":"2009-01-27T21:53:13","date_gmt":"2009-01-28T04:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rickyopaterny.com\/blog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2009-01-28T22:01:27","modified_gmt":"2009-01-29T05:01:27","slug":"jonathan-lethem-and-joseph-oneill-on-the-death-of-john-updike-and-fathers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/27\/jonathan-lethem-and-joseph-oneill-on-the-death-of-john-updike-and-fathers\/","title":{"rendered":"Jonathan Lethem and Joseph O&#8217;Neill on the death of John Updike and fathers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><script type=\"text\/javascript\" src=\"https:\/\/media.dreamhost.com\/ufo.js\"><\/script>\n<\/p>\n<p id=\"Lethem012709.mp3\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.macromedia.com\/go\/getflashplayer\">Loading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script type=\"text\/javascript\">\n  var FO = { movie:\"https:\/\/media.dreamhost.com\/mediaplayer.swf\",width:\"320\",height:\"20\",majorversion:\"7\",build:\"0\",bgcolor:\"#FFFFFF\",\n             flashvars:\"file=http:\/\/rickyopaterny.com\/audio\/Lethem012709.mp3&showdigits=true&autostart=false\" };\nUFO.create(FO,\"Lethem012709.mp3\");\n<\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Jonathan Lethem and Joseph O&#8217;Neill both have essays in the current issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.granta.com\">Granta<\/a> on photographs of their fathers. They spoke about these pieces and, more generally, fathers with Granta&#8217;s American editor, John Freeman at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.housingworks.org\" target=\"_blank\">Housing Works<\/a> tonight. The conversation started with reflections on John Updike, who <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2009\/01\/28\/books\/28updike.html\" target=\"_blank\">died at 76 today.<\/a> Lethem told a moving story about how he rushed to a local hotel to give blood on 9\/11. The blood donations had been a false rumor and driven several Brooklynites to the same hotel. Updike was one of them; Lethem noted his presence and said nothing to him. Download an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rickyopaterny.com\/audio\/Lethem012709.mp3\">MP3 of the event.<br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Loading&#8230; Jonathan Lethem and Joseph O&#8217;Neill both have essays in the current issue of Granta on photographs of their fathers. They spoke about these pieces and, more generally, fathers with Granta&#8217;s American editor, John Freeman at Housing Works tonight. The conversation started with reflections on John Updike, who died at 76 today. Lethem told a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,1],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":449,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions\/449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gen-o.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}