Throwback Sunday: Emergency Exit Row

Eli here, from Here’s Something. I’m in the last throes of the first full draft of my essay collection and I’m on a deadline to my publisher, which means today is decidedly a Throwback Sunday (I wish there was a day of the week that started with the same letter as “throwback,” but alas.)

Today, I take a look back at one of my earlier pieces for The New Yorker: “Sitting in the Emergency-Exit Row: What You Need to Know.” If you’re a New Yorker subscriber, you can click that link—if not, the full text is below. But first, a bit of history on the piece!