Open City on “Subway reading log”, a list by Adrian Cole on TheLysts.

Details

Photo
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Name
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Author
Teju Cole
Year
2011
Neighborhood lens
Upper Manhattan, Midtown drifts, late-night walks
Best read on
Solo 1 train rides after 10 p.m., headphones off
My take
Basically a walking meditation with footnotes; it gave me permission to treat my own zoning-out commutes as a kind of slow, glitchy cartography.