What We’re Reading: Music Books

Take a break from the headphones to dive into pages about Philip Glass and vinyl heads

After you’ve listened to album after album on Spotify, recovered from a weeknight concert, bombasted by music at the local bar, it’s sometimes nice to let the ears rest. There’s still another way to get your music fix, however—in the form of bound pages. And books, lest you forget, can be far more insightful and impactful than the latest stream of Tweets from your favorite …

Link About It: This Week’s Picks

The meaning of Serena Williams, affordable prosthetics and more in this week's look around the web

1.10 Years After Hurricane Katrina Before the catastrophic Hurricane Katrina hit 10 years ago, New Orleans was a dramatically different city. There are now 100,000 fewer black residents living there and property prices are increasing, but new businesses are also popping up. While each area is recovering and changing in different ways, there is no doubt that the city was changed forever—not just because of …

Novels that Reference NYC Neighborhoods, Mapped

There’s no doubt that New York City has inspired more movies, novels and music than just about anywhere else—and now the New York Public Library has mapped out exactly which books have referenced NYC neighborhoods. Residents, visitors and anybody around the world can visit the online hub and scan through the streets of the Big Apple—scrolling past literary points of interest from American Psycho’s Wall …