The Last Bohemia

Robert Anasi provides a firsthand account of how drastically Williamsburg, Brooklyn has changed since he first moved there in 1994. From factory backwater to hipster mecca, the neighborhood's transformation mirrors profound shifts in American culture that the author parses with humor, insight, and a poignant nostalgia for simpler -- albeit grimier -- times.

May 20: Blue jeans celebrate their unofficial 140th birthday today, the dry goods merchant Levi Strauss and the tailor Jacob Davis receiving a patent on May 20, 1873 for "a new article of manufacture, a pair of pantaloons having the…

Ethan Rutherford and Matt Burgess (Dogfight: A Love Story) on the writing of Rutherford's surreal and fiercely funny story collection The Peripatetic Coffin

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