Sometimes the story behind the making of a legendary book like On The Road or In Cold Blood ends up on the big screen. However, the small-screen stories on The Eloquent Page are the kind passed on by word of mouth. 

We love New York, London, and Paris as much as the next big city slicker, but the 20th time you read an article about a new bakery on Ludlow Street, it can start to feel like the smaller cities are being overlooked.

The Cereal Magazine brief is simple: food, travel and the good things in life, written up as a series of in depth, leisurely topical pursuits. 

"Are you a witless cretin with no reason to live? Would you like to know more about every piece of knowledge ever? Do you have cash? Then congratulations, because just in time for the death of the print industry as we know it comes the final book ever published."

In the same way that salads can get brushed off as a garnish or an inconsequential entree to the main course, plants often get overlooked in favour of the manmade structures they sit around.

If an artist you loved announced that their next studio album would be taking the form of a book of sheet music, you would probably be justified in taking bets on how long it's going take for them to go bankrupt/get committed.

What kind of cowboy would wear this to work? The Mexican charro kind, that's who. Volume five is on shelves today, and here's some of the stories to get stuck into. 

The MIT Technology Review is a rich vein of science-ish knowledge into which you should tap. Unapologetically geeky, the focus is on the human significance of our interaction with the tools we create, the problems they solve and the meanings they propose.

Robert Atwan knows a thing or two about the art of the essay. He did, after all, found the Best American Essays series, pretty much the bible of the entire genre.

As Louis Theroux is to TV, Jon Ronson is to journalism – a quirky, unassuming figure who somehow succeeds in getting the world's most legitimately crazy citizens to talk candidly to him about their lunacy of choice.