Robinson Meyer: Oh man yes. And any edition of a daily metro newspaper from the 20th century makes you weep for how much they knew about each other

Nothing makes me feel like I live in the ruins of a lost civilization than encountering the sheer volume of edited, commercial prose that the American economy used to produce

An issue of the New Yorker even from just twenty years ago leaves me wistful.

Oh man yes. And any edition of a daily metro newspaper from the 20th century makes you weep for how much they knew about each other

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