[Publib] Take the F Train

[Backwage at aol.com]

September 10, 2006
 
Call It Booklyn 
By SARA GRAN
 
I HAVE a theory about the F train.  
I think that people who ride the F train, which stops in the heart of Park  
Slope, Brooklyn, and is therefore the train of choice for dozens of writers,  
editors and publishers, choose their subway reading material very carefully. 
You  rarely see the folks who get off at Seventh Avenue reading anything  
pocket-sized, and never anything with an embossed cover, or anything that’s  
advertised on the train itself.  
Here is my theory: I think people who ride the F train know who their fellow  
riders are, and save the trashy reading for home. On the F, they pull out 
only  their hippest and most intellectual pursuits. Like the mythological “disco 
cars”  of the 70’s, the last cars of certain trains that were supposedly 
reserved for  using and selling drugs, the F is reserved for those who read books 
reviewed in  The New Yorker. 
You could say it’s a coincidence that the F train is filled with literary  
fiction fans. I say it’s a conspiracy. 
_http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/nyregion/thecity/10broo.html_ 
(http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/10/nyregion/thecity/10broo.html) 

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