MY WIFE AT BURNING MAN 

By David Perlstein | September 15, 2023

My 75-year-old wife Carolyn returned from her fourth Burning Man. Shocked? Here’s the full picture. Carolyn—Playa name DramaQueen—loves the festival, which draws 60,000–70,000 people to the desert three hours north of Reno. She first went in 2018. She’d known about Burning Man since its early days at San Francisco’s Baker Beach. “Also, I’d been a…

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DEATH, POLITICS AND GUILT

By David Perlstein | June 26, 2020

I have bad news, good news and more bad news. Also an apology. The initial bad news: The COVID-19 death toll of Americans stands at 124,000. The good news: Last Sunday, American daily deaths dropped to 275. More bad news: Daily deaths rose to 833 on Tuesday and 766 Wednesday. Yesterday, Johns Hopkins University charted…

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