Secret Billionaires, Mafia Brides, Alpha Kings: The Insane World of Microdramas

As fun to read as it is ultimately pretty depressing. Daniel Kolitz had become one of my favorite contemporary magazine feature writers, absolutely on par with my 🐐s, Caity Weaver and David Foster Wallace.

Sample sentence: “What follows will feel familiar to you if you half-watched “The Godfather” on TV one afternoon, and then — while trapped in a coma — spent compressed infinities of psychic time wandering the darkest, most rankly erotic corridors of your subconscious.