In New York City, the L train operates between 8th Avenue and Rockaway Parkway. Acting as a major melting pot. The train door opens every three to seven minutes, revealing New York’s finest.

Financiers, blue-collar boys, chief creative officers, and lastly, the sight to behold: books. Somehow, it’s usually Dostoevsky, but once in a while, David Foster Wallace, however rarely Virginia Woolf. Always held in a way that deliberately exposes the cover.

There is something undeniably compelling about a man carrying a manuscript. Whether the motivation is genuine curiosity or cultivated image, the result remains the same: minds are being expanded.

For the Renaissance man whose hunger for inquisition is insatiable, this is for you.

Main Character Energy

Booked and Busy

Carry The Culture

Do it By the Book

Read Between the lines

This story appears in the pages of VMAN 56: on global newsstands now!

Photography Greg Delves

Fashion Market Editor Copelyn Bengel

Prop Stylist Linden Elstran