Who I am
Hello, and welcome to Attempts (2.0). My name is Stephen Saperstein Frug, and I am a writer and occasional photographer who lives in Ithaca, New York.
I am the author and illustrator of a graphic novel, Happenstance, which you can read for free online here, or which you an purchase a paper copy of here, or on Amazon.
I am also the author of Retcon: A Mosaic Story in Three Movements, which is being published monhtly starting March, 2023 (buy at Amazon • Smashwords • Barnes & Noble • Kobo • My personal web site).
And, of course, I am the author of this Substack newsletter.
What is Attempts?
Attempts is a newsletter which publishes essays and bricolage (roughly alternating weeks) on Thursday afternoons. See the introductory post here for that same point made at much greater length and with more footnotes.
Why not subscribe? It’s free, and the essays are good. Here, check it out:
Also feel free to look around the archives! The easiest way to access them, in my view, is from the tags page, which can let you browse for particular topics. All the more substantial essays (as opposed to personal updates, link collections, and the like) can be found under the essay tag.
Where else are you online?
You can follow me at the following social media sites, which are organized below in the rough order of how frequently I use and/or update them:
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/stephen.frug/
Bluesky: https://bsky.app/profile/stephenfrug.bsky.social
Twitter: https://twitter.com/StephenFrug
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/stephensapersteinfrug/
Mastadon: https://c.im/@StephenFrug
Tumblr: https://stephenfrug.tumblr.com/
