This week, I wanted to share five more stories about what it means to disappear—either against your will or by your own volition.
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The Top 5 Longreads of the Week
The best stories of the week, as chosen by the editors of Longreads.
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On Fashion and Functioning
In “Fashioning Normal,” Esmé Weijun Wang writes at Catapult about performing wellness in the midst of mental illness.
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‘The Biggest Test for Our Relationship Yet’: Catherine LaSota on Joining Her Husband at Burning Man
When we purchased our Burning Man tickets, Karl said to me, “All first-timers have a nervous breakdown of some kind.” We didn’t know that my breakdown would come on the first night. Burning Man presents a lot of unfamiliar stimuli all at once. Hugs from everyone! Naked boobies everywhere! Manual labor in an inhospitable environment! […]
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Alexander Chee on Writing, Success, and Subletting Below Chloë Sevigny
At Catapult, Alexander Chee has a self-reflective essay about a period in the early aughts when he got to sublet a friend’s plum 19th-story apartment in Gramercy Park. She let him have it for just $900 per month, a steal, which took a great deal of financial pressure off of him. This was after the […]