Charles Bethea is a contributing writer for newyorker.com, and has written for The New Yorker since 2008. He has published numerous Talk of the Town pieces, on subjects including the creator of barackobama@gmail.com, a pro canvasser and a sculptor obsessed with Donald Trump. Previously, he was an editor at Outside magazine and a writer-at-large for Atlanta. His work has also appeared in Grantland, The New Republic, the Wall Street Journal, GQ, Rolling Stone, and Wired.
Reading List: Charles Bethea recommends Roger Angell’s “This Old Man.”
“There were people in the pool, hotel guests, no idea what was going on,” a survivor said. “Suddenly we showed up and washed the blood off our clothes and skin.”
“I would have no problem supporting him again locally,” one voter said of the ex-Cabinet member, who spent more than a million taxpayer dollars on travel.
At a rally in Montgomery, anti-establishment Republicans offered support for the former judge’s Senate campaign, even if the President endorsed his opponent.
