What I Read Last Week:

via A fresh look at Appalachia : 50 years after the war on poverty

• ‘Can you dig it?’ The Warriors, 35 years later | Esquire
• You’ve got Nora: A Valentine’s Day tribute to Nora Ephron | Vanity Fair
• Leaving only footsteps? Think again | New York Times
• State of emergency declared in West Virginia after train derails, explodes | LA Times
• Brother from another mother | New Yorker
• Where are all the women hermits | Aeon
• Shoegaze : An oral history | Wondering Sound
• The holdouts: Three Texas families who refused sell [of] mineral rights | Texas Observer
• Joy the Baker’s Grub Street | New York Magazine