UnBeige: Updike Wouldn’t Take Manhattan

By Neal 

UnBeige, mediabistro.com’s design industry blog, had a post late last Friday about John Updike‘s writings for Architectural Digest, some of which were collected and featured on the magazine’s website shortly after the author’s death last week, including “An Exile’s Impressions” and its rather harsh assessment of New York City in the late 1980s:

“Toward the end of each of my by now countless trips to New York, I must still fight a rising panic that I won’t be able to get out. New York, like the Soviet Union, has this universal usefulness: It makes you glad you live elsewhere.”