Rooting Around

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Rooting Around | Lisa Rogak | Substack

A New York Times bestselling author reveals her well-honed research tools and methods to help readers find the facts they’re looking for, online and IRL. Click to read Rooting Around, by Lisa Rogak, a Substack publication. Launched a month ago.

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My aim with Rooting Around is to help you improve your own research skills, often by looking in unexpected places. I’ll reveal my secrets and the obscure online sources I use to help you find the facts you’re searching for. I’ll map out my own meandering routes and reverse-engineer passages from my books, retracing my steps so you can see how I got there. After spending two decades writing about other people, it’s become second nature for me to hide behind the stories of other people. But recently I’ve started to work on a memoir, so I’ll also be using Rooting Around to turn the lens around on my own life while helping me grow more comfortable with telling my own stories. Sometimes roots are out in the open, for all to see, while at others even a backhoe or jackhammer won’t jostle them free. Whether you’re working on a book or essay, digging into your family history, or just trying to shake loose a hidden fact to satisfy your own curiosity, Rooting Around will help you find facts and make sense of them, one search at a time.