Will be posting some favourite and random #longreads every day or so as a #lockdown distraction.

#Corlongavireads, if you will.

First, David Foster Wallace’s incredible 2006 essay on what it’s like to watch Roger Federer play tennis. https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/20/sports/playmagazine/20federer.html">https://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/2...
As the last #corlongavireads from Esquire went down so well, here’s another from the same source, though nearly 40 years before. Originally published in 1966, it’s a forerunner of so much of today’s long-form journalism. https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/a638/frank-sinatra-has-a-cold-gay-talese/">https://www.esquire.com/news-poli...
#Lockdown #Longreads No. 7

This 1996 odyssey around the various projects that were wiring up the world back then. At 24 years& #39; distance, it& #39;s like stripping back wallpaper and plaster to see how the modern world was built.

#corlongavireads https://www.wired.com/1996/12/ffglass/">https://www.wired.com/1996/12/f...
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