Letters to the Editor
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‘Railways: When Artists Look Down the Track’
The page one story on art relating to railways brought irresistibly to mind one of the most unusual, beautiful, and moving books about railroads, the sadly out-of-print “Stations,” by Michael Flanagan [Arts & Letters, “Railways: When Artists Look Down the Track,” June 9, 2008].
Mr. Flanagan, a highly gifted artist, also wrote the text of the book — evoking the mystique of trains and train stations and love and art and loss and a few other things — with incomparable poignancy.
Maybe Pantheon can be persuaded to reissue it, but used copies are pretty widely available. It simply should not be missed.
MICHAEL SCHWARTZ
New York, N.Y.
