How did you start Subway Book Review?
It seems so far away at this point because I started it over seven years ago. If you think back to 2013, we were living in a vastly different time than we are today—I wanted to really document who New York was at its heart and at its mind. And for me, there was just no better person to speak with than one of the mystical readers in the underground. And there was no Wi-Fi on the train, so you had this abundance of book-reading strangers who were onto something because in the middle of rush hour, they knew how to dive into another world. So I thought, let’s document these people and what’s on their mind, but also who they are and who they want to become.