I came across your column by sheer accident a few weeks ago, and since then I have read everything you've dropped, but I wanna chime in finally and say how grateful I am for what you do. These kinds of things are the most interesting to me - these little insights into otherwise unseen histories - and I'm so happy someone is out there finding and sharing them. Your work is SO good!
Wow! Thank you, Maggie - It's lovely to meet you. I'm grateful for your kind words, and so happy this stuff is resonating. This is really helpful feedback - Substack is brilliant, but you don't have newsroom colleages to let you know when you are hitting the mark (or not!). I will do my best to keep digging up these stories. I am always happy to find other people who are as intrigued as I am by the lost/hidden lives of other people. : )
The Maggies are callin’ it, Stef! Would you ever consider reading your pieces (I remember your voice on the radio in 2008) and posting the audio here? 🤍 M.
This remarkable newsletter, as the subtitle indicates, finds “the fragments of a life in the middle of nowhere.” After introducing those fragments Stefene by real research finds more of those fragments and by her own analysis places everything for us in its own sociological setting. Well done!
Thank you, Jim! I know you're a fan of the NYT's profiles, too - I just love reading them for their own sake, espeicially the obits, but they are my version of "art student copying the masters in the museum" - they do such a brillaint job of creating whole portraits of poeple and digging up little-known stories about the lives they live (or lived, in the case of the obits). If I get even a half a hair closer to that on any given day, I am happy. : )
I came across your column by sheer accident a few weeks ago, and since then I have read everything you've dropped, but I wanna chime in finally and say how grateful I am for what you do. These kinds of things are the most interesting to me - these little insights into otherwise unseen histories - and I'm so happy someone is out there finding and sharing them. Your work is SO good!
Wow! Thank you, Maggie - It's lovely to meet you. I'm grateful for your kind words, and so happy this stuff is resonating. This is really helpful feedback - Substack is brilliant, but you don't have newsroom colleages to let you know when you are hitting the mark (or not!). I will do my best to keep digging up these stories. I am always happy to find other people who are as intrigued as I am by the lost/hidden lives of other people. : )
The Maggies are callin’ it, Stef! Would you ever consider reading your pieces (I remember your voice on the radio in 2008) and posting the audio here? 🤍 M.
This remarkable newsletter, as the subtitle indicates, finds “the fragments of a life in the middle of nowhere.” After introducing those fragments Stefene by real research finds more of those fragments and by her own analysis places everything for us in its own sociological setting. Well done!
Thank you, Jim! I know you're a fan of the NYT's profiles, too - I just love reading them for their own sake, espeicially the obits, but they are my version of "art student copying the masters in the museum" - they do such a brillaint job of creating whole portraits of poeple and digging up little-known stories about the lives they live (or lived, in the case of the obits). If I get even a half a hair closer to that on any given day, I am happy. : )
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Thank you, Joe!