Alexis Mainland documents New Yorkers from all walks of life reading on the subways — the last outpost of low-tech, off-the-grid in-between time. (The NY Times)
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Notes From the Underground
By Sonya Chung posted at 10:56 am on September 6, 2009 1
at 11:34 am on September 7, 2009
[...] Labor Day Bites: Tolstoy Street/Dostoevsky Ave., Blago’s memoirs, Agriculture Reader geets cheap, organic farms in Greenpoint, and more. Jump to Comments We have been doing our best to talk about how much New Yorkers read on the subway, and we used the title “24 Anna Karenia readers can’t be wrong” to highlight the New York Times coverage of citizens of Gotham and their literary choices while commuting. The Millions also took the Russian lit. route, but instead of Tolstoy Street, they went down Dostoevsky Ave. [...]