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Everybody has a story. Everybody. Greg Lopez was a great newspaper columnist for The Rock Mountain News in Denver who wrote about everyday people. It was like h
by jbuzbee 7y ago
Everybody has a story. Everybody. Greg Lopez was a great newspaper columnist for The Rock Mountain News in Denver who wrote about everyday people. It was like he could just walk up to anyone on the street and get a fascinating story out of them.
Unfortunately, he was killed by a drunk driver - Rich, listless kid driving an exotic sports car. Tragic loss. It's been a long time, but I still remember him. I could only find one of his columns online since his paper shut down but here it is:
https://www.syracuse.com/kirst/2009/03/greg_lopez_and_the_rocky_mount.html https://www.syracuse.com/kirst/2009/03/greg_lopez_and_the_ro...
- i_am_proteus 7y agoI recommend Up In The Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell. He wrote the stories of everyday New Yorkers for a column in the New Yorker, and the book is a collection of his best work.