🧵 We're launching "Passages," a new, members-only series of essays about life-changing encounters with stories, each by one of our favorite writers. If you're a @Longreads fan, we think you'll love this.
"One woman swore Alexander showed up outside a memorial service and asked people for IDs. Another woman said he detained her and her husband when they returned home from church. Parties dwindled. Invite lists shrank. People began to move away." @FrancescaDnunz + @McKenzieFunk for
"In 100 years, there will be nothing. Nobody will want to spend their vacation touring endless rooms full of rusty server racks."
Jesse Wright for @curaffairs:
"I'm directing and co-piloting my dad, and it occurs to me that this—right now—is probably the most we've talked in decades: Turn left, turn right, merge onto this state road."
A new essay from @AubeReyLescure: