William Gibson (above) and other White Men Wearing Google Glass.

Masha Gessen will write a book about the Tsarnaev brothers for Riverhead Books.

Jason Diamond at The Observer on Chicago, books about Chicago, New Yorkers crapping on Chicago, and so much more.

How to pack a bag like a pioneering Victorian journalist.

Looking at 1747’s The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy.

Want to read some Walt Whitman underneath the Brooklyn Bridge?

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