{"id":68,"date":"2006-07-14T10:36:01","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T15:36:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=68"},"modified":"2010-12-04T16:55:16","modified_gmt":"2010-12-04T21:55:16","slug":"the-bat-segundo-show-50","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/the-bat-segundo-show-50\/","title":{"rendered":"John Updike (BSS #50)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo50.mp3\"><img id=\"image3784\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/07\/segundo50.jpg\" alt=\"segundo50.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Author:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/userpages.prexar.com\/joyerkes\/\">John Updike<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b> Defending himself against obnoxious talk show hosts and ready to move on.<\/p>\n<p><b>Subjects Discussed:<\/b> Epigraphs, faith and disbelief, starting <i>Terrorist<\/i> with a Catholic priest, first person vs. third person, on writing upon Americana, post-9\/11 symbolism, humanism vs. pessimism, blow jobs, Christopher Hitchens, the state of the September 11 novel, Norman Mailer, Neil LaBute&#8217;s <i>The Mercy Seat<\/i>, applying &#8220;On Not Being a Dove&#8221; to Iraq, airport X-ray machines, external sexual imagery vs. internal emotion in prose, why Updike concentrates on explicit anatomical detail, Goths, language, challenging Updike on the BEA speech and the Internet.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_56\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-68-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo50.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo50.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo50.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo50.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=68-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo50.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo50.mp3\">Download<\/a> (56.4MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Author: John Updike Condition of Mr. Segundo: Defending himself against obnoxious talk show hosts and ready to move on. 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