Stephen Black

But what of the wives and daughters? Flatland’s women are mere line segments, actually very thin triangles, whose social standing is zero. Their intelligence is little greater. They are required by law to wiggle from side to side so that they can be seen, and to emit loud cries so that they can be heard, because a collision with a woman is as fatal... See more

For pro line standers, the richest gig is waiting to get into a Supreme Court hearing. Only 50 people are allowed in, so people sometimes line up for days to score entry.

Run clubs are now social clubs and also IRL dating apps, and new-gen running labels like Satisfy, Norda, Bandit, District Vision and countless others make fashion-forward clothing for people to run in and also to flex in at the coffee store after.

“Gould looked like a bum and lived like a bum,” Mitchell wrote. “He wore castoff clothes, and he slept in flophouses or in the cheapest rooms in cheap hotels. Sometimes he slept in doorways. He spent most of his time hanging out in diners and cafeterias and barrooms in the Village or wandering around the streets or looking up friends and... See more

Many and in many different genres. I tend to like photographers who can do any kind of project and still be recognizable. The pinnacle of that for me is Irving Penn. Someone I’ve been obsessed with recently is Niegel Shafran and his workbooks edited by Loose Joint.

Resurget Cineribus

Joseph Mitchell both described and conjured the dazzling world of New York when it was really New York — the characters, the grit, the language.