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Alex Mar has written for The Believer, Wired, and New York. She is the author of\nWitches of America and the director of the documentary American Mystic.\n\n\n\n\u201cI really do believe that all of us run on some kind of desire for meaning. And if someone is an atheist and they don\u2019t subscribe to an organized system, it doesn\u2019t mean that they don\u2019t crave something. Maybe it\u2019s their job. Or maybe it\u2019s the way that they raise their children with a certain kind of intense focus. Or something else. As humans, we are built to crave meaning, right? For me, that was something that I wanted to explore about myself.\u201d\n\n\n\nThanks to MailChimp, On the Media, The TED Interview,and Pitt Writers for sponsoring this week's episode.\n\n\n@alex_mar\n\n\nMar on Longform\n\n\n[02:20] Witches of America (Sarah Crichton Books \u2022 2016)\n\n\n[02:37] "Are We Ready for Intimacy With Androids?" (Wired \u2022 Oct 2017)\n\n\n[10:00] Mar\u2019s Documentary: American Mystic\n\n\n[10:17] \u201dSatan in Poughkeepsie" (The Believer \u2022 2015)\n\n\n[15:12] No Man Knows My History: The Life of Joseph Smith (Fawn McKay Brodie \u2022 Vintage \u2022 1995)\n\n\n[16:07] Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Lawrence Wright \u2022 Vintage \u2022 2013)\n\n\n[34:15] Mar\u2019s Rolling Stone archive\n\n\n[39:10] \u201dMan of the Future" (The Believer \u2022 2013)\n\n\n[55:40] \u201dBreakdown Palace\u201d (Topic \u2022 2019)\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices