The Immortal Class: Bike Messengers and the Cult of Human Power By Travis Hugh Culley Villard 324 pages, $19.95 Bike messengers seem out of place in the streets of our downtowns. Despised and envied by the “suits” they serve all day, messengers are simultaneously outside commerce and nothing more than commerce. They thumb their noses at workaday propriety while turning their… return to article
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