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Kevin Fagan’s Homeless Reporting for the SF Chronicle
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Discuss a piece of longform journalism with a group of longreads fans in this monthly club from the Magazines and Newspapers Center. Read the selection ahead of time and come prepared to discuss following the Shared Inquiry Method.

January Selection

Kevin Fagan’s Homeless Reporting

San Francisco Chronicle, 2003 – 2019

In this curated selection of articles showcasing Kevin Fagan’s longterm homeless coverage for the SF Chronicle, we are invited to get to know two people’s stories of life on the streets in the City: Rita from 2003 – 2005 and Tyson in 2019. Both stories put individuals at the center of a swirling milieu of policy, geography, drug addiction, mental illness, and systemic failure. Fagan published a monograph on the topic in 2025, The Lost and the Found.

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