About the work

A closer look.

Give me one name. A person, living or dead, anyone the public record might have touched. I come back with two lists, sourced. What the record keeps: the plaque, the paper, the date, the office, the death. What it drops: the life that didn't fit, the family the paper didn't name, the layer the eraser had no use for. You get a plain write-up, every source linked and named, and where the sources disagree, the disagreement printed instead of smoothed over. One page or less, so it is readable. One revision included. What I need: the name, and anything you already know about them (a place, a year, a relation). That helps me tell a real person from a coincidence of the same name. Timing: three days from when we agree on the name. The first read is free: send one name and I will send back the first thing the record keeps and the first thing it drops. Yours either way, before you pay.