Required reading: Tolentino on Houston

Given the fact that Harvey is the new (for now) storm of the millennium, it’s a bewildering clusterfuck trying to keep up with the coverage alone, but I urge you to linger over the piece that (Houston native & Deez Links fave) Jia Tolentino wrote for The New Yorker: Hurricane Harvey, and Public and Private Disaster in Houston.

It’s a good ground zero for understanding the city — especially from a native’s perspective — and the scale of the hurricane’s known and TBD impact, and, also, begins with a most New Yorkian lead bordering on the level of biblical poetry: “When Houston floods, it turns into a locked circular labyrinth.” It’d be more beautiful if it weren’t so terrifying.

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