Experience

Publishing resume

Work from The New York Times

(For several years I had a regular column in the real estate section about how people live in New York; from the 1990s until 2012 I also wrote dozens of stories for various sections, including  Styles, House and Home, Escapes, and The New York Times Magazine.)

With Clouds as Neighbors: My Andean Retreat

Opening in New Orleans After Katrina

Outlaw Tourists in the Urban Underbelly

Land and Crop Art on the Land Trump Wants

Other People’s Wheat

Bankrolled by a Basquiat

Growing Into a Home and a Country

A Pair of Roamers

Urban Pioneer Knows His Time is Up

A Difficult Home

Captain Billy Joel, Designer Man

A Psychic is Called

A Large Family, Guided by Angels

A Midwest Celebrity Learns The Ropes

Magazine Stories

Soul Cipher Leon Bridges Doesn’t Need You, Argonite magazine (2017)

You Too Can Own a Warhol, BreakerMag  (2019)

The New Distributed World Order, BreakerMag (2019)

Tunnel Visionary, the Smithsonian Magazine (2004)

Book Excerpts

Blockchain: The Next Everything (Scribner, 2019) The New Counter-Coin Culture

Lighting the World: Transforming Our Energy Future by Bringing Electricity to Everyone, (St. Martin), by Jim Rogers and Stephen P. Williams. (2017) Darkness Visible

Newsletter

Everlands, by Stephen’s People, a newsletter with videos and writing about the world around us.