Pictures and words from the early 1980s fanzine We Got Power gets the book treatment this August.  (Thanks @mariasherm for the tip.)

• Speaking of the West Coast, there’s a whole new Los Angeles Review of Books.  Big mazels.

• Breaking down how much money it cost five women writers (including Dorothy Parker, Patti Smith, and Kate Christensen) to make it in New York at The Awl.

• Michael Robbins and friends hang out at Housing Works.

• The chemistry of old book smell.

• Our friend Zachary Lipez on six bands that make him want to kill people who say NYC is boring.

• If you don’t have enough money to buy a Porsche (like us), maybe a Porsche bicycle?

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