News at Eleven: Poetry and prose on the subway

may be going the way of the dodo. As The Times reported Tuesday morning, the Train of Thought series, which placed literary quotations from the likes of Kafka and Schopenhauer in the unlikely locale of a packed New York City subway car, is being removed to make way for a promotional campaign by the Metropolitan Transportation Authority.

from The New York Times: Reflections on the Literary Decline of the Subway

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