Podcast
Pivot
The author conducted extensive phone interviews and in-person reporting to gather personal accounts from Americans about their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in a book that shares intimate, personal stories.
This was a different kind of project for me too. Usually my journalism is sort of embedded first person journalism where if I'm writing about somebody I'm trying to go and be there with them.
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The author conducted extensive phone interviews and in-person reporting to gather personal accounts from Americans about their experiences during the COVID-19 pandemic, resulting in a book that shares intimate, personal stories.
This was a different kind of project for me too. Usually my journalism is sort of embedded first person journalism where if I'm writing about somebody I'm trying to go and be there with them.
So instead I tried to figure out how can I still tell intimate personal stories about what's happening in people's lives at this historic moment without my eyes without seeing them without being there in person.
And so I started making these really long phone calls to people whose lives were being sort of upended by the pandemic and sometimes talking to people for 15, 20 hours over the course of a week to sort of write about what they were dealing with in real time as the pandemic worsened.
But initially it was mostly very long phone conversations, FaceTime calls. And then also having people sort of share their text messages, their Facebook posts, all of the things from their own lives with me.
I mean, I think really the reason was like my own compulsion to get outside of my own little pandemic bubble.