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1 week ago | 
airmail.news | Nathan King
BROWSE Roadside Architecture America’s roadside architecture—especially from the period after the First World War until the 1980s—is so vast, ephemeral, and historically important that you’d think its preservation or, at the very least, documentation would fall to a governmental agency. But as far as we know, it doesn’t.
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3 weeks ago | 
airmail.news | Nathan King
RIDE Ural Anyone with a shred of sense knows that at some point in the not-too-distant future the world is going to end. And when it does, you’ll want to have an escape vehicle picked out. While something hulking and tank-like may provide the illusion of safety, you’d be much better off ripping it over mountains and across deserts on a Ural Motorcycle.
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4 weeks ago | 
airmail.news | Nathan King
WRITE Blackwing 602 As detailed at length in AIR MAIL Editor Graydon Carter’s memoir, When the Going Was Good, pencils are important. Actually, sharp pencils are important. A rounded-nub one won’t get you very far. But for the uninitiated, the question of which pencil to stake your claim on can be either daunting or dull.
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1 month ago | 
airmail.news | Nathan King
FLICK Louis Poulsen One of the happier by-products of the coronavirus pandemic is the battery-powered table lamp. The pleasures of outdoor dining increase in proportion with how well you can see what’s on your plate. Though, in the nearly five years since al fresco dining became widespread, in the summer of 2020, we’ve learned that not all portable lamps are created equal.
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1 month ago | 
airmail.news | Nathan King
LISTEN Birdly Serenade When Randall Poster—the music supervisor of choice for Martin Scorsese, Wes Anderson, and, among countless others, AIR MAIL—released his Grammy-winning 20-LP boxed set, For the Birds: The Birdsong Project, it seemed unlikely that there would be a follow-up anytime soon. The project, which comprises songs, poetry, and artwork by everyone from Yoko Ono and Jonathan Franzen to Alice Coltrane and Jarvis Cocker, is just that prodigious. Then again, so is Poster’s love for birds.
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2 months ago | 
airmail.news | Nathan King
F. Scott Fitzgerald’s final royalty check was for $13.13, making him the recipient of a double dose of bad luck. By 1940, the novel he thought to be his masterpiece, The Great Gatsby, was very nearly out of print, and the woman he regarded as the love of his life, Zelda Fitzgerald, was living across the country, in and out of mental hospitals.
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2 months ago | 
airmail.news | Nathan King
CARRY Aleon Sometimes it pays to look like a rich tourist and sometimes it doesn’t. If you’re checking into the Crillon, you don’t want to be pulling a tattered old Samsonite behind you. But wandering through a souk with a Rimowa, you’re suddenly a mark. The Northern California–based Aleon seems to have sensed this dilemma and has designed their range of cases accordingly.
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Feb 21, 2025 | 
airmail.news | Nathan King
In AIR MAIL’s latest podcast, never-before-heard interviews with the likes of Robert Evans and James Caan chronicle the making of The Godfather About four and a half years ago, AIR MAIL’s Co-Editor Graydon Carter forwarded me a movie script he had been sent about the making of The Godfather. It was a dramatized version of the story, but a fairly accurate, captivating one, and Graydon thought it might serve as the basis for a great podcast on the subject.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
airmail.news | Nathan King
Danielle Sassoon, the Trump-appointed interim U.S. attorney who resigned rather than obey Attorney General Pam Bondi’s order to drop the corruption case against New York City mayor Eric Adams. “I understand my duty as a prosecutor to mean enforcing the law impartially, and that includes prosecuting a validly returned indictment regardless whether its dismissal would be politically advantageous, to the defendant or to those who appointed me.” →
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
airmail.news | Nathan King
DRIVE IMCDb Few Web sites are more beloved among movie buffs than IMDb (Internet Movie Database). Before it existed, unless you were best friends withQuentin Tarantino, there was no simple way to find out which actors were in a movie, what other pictures they’d been in, the names of a film’s cast and crew, and so forth. Unfortunately, the one feature it lacks is the ability to tell you which cars, trucks, and motorcycles are in a movie.
