John Updike's NYC

[Henry Musikar]

Thoughts on the City by a New Yorker Writer Who Avoided New York
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/30/nyregion/30nyc.html 

"'If I had character, I’m sure I could say no to promotion tours,”' he said.
Thomas Pynchon did, he noted. So had John Hersey. But the nature of modern
publishing is what it is, and he felt an obligation to Knopf to do his bit,
even if it meant a few hours at Lutèce (which closed its doors in 2004).

'I’ve never felt comfortable in here,' he told me, lowering his voice to
keep from being overheard. 'I feel gourmet food is sort of wasted on me.”'

FAMILY also brought Mr. Updike to New York — relatives living in Brooklyn.
He happened to be there on Sept. 11, 2001. From a rooftop in Brooklyn
Heights, he saw the first of the twin towers fall 'straight down like an
elevator, with a tinkling shiver and a groan of concussion distinct across
the mile of air.'"


Henry Mu

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http://www.urdomain.us/kcuf.htm to see what's playing, and now available on
RECIVA Internet-Radio receivers, http://tinyurl.com/kcuf-on-reciva 

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