The Old World Is Dead

Subway Punches, Needle Jabs, Political Lies, and Why It’s OK to Still Feel Unsettled

Saul Austerlitz
5 min readMay 14, 2021

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Photo by Brooke Cagle on Unsplash

Someone punched me the other day in the Clark Street subway station. I couldn’t, for the life of me, remember the last time anyone had hit me in anger. The person who hit me, who was sitting on a platform bench and looked like they were going through some sort of mental-health crisis…

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Saul Austerlitz

Author of Generation Friends: An Inside Look at the Show That Defined a Television Era +4 more. Work published in the NY Times and many others. Teacher at NYU.

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