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Sean Carman

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Sean Carman has contributed to four McSweeney's humor anthologies, and has been a contestant in Literary Death Match, a finalist in NPR's Three-Minute Fiction Contest, and a winner of The New Yorker's weekly Twitter contest. His story "A Hard Rain. A Really, Really Hard Rain" was a runner-up in the Out of the Storm News Bad Writing About the Weather Contest. He lives in Washington, D.C., where he works as an environmental lawyer.
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Living Outside the Narrative in Elif Batuman’s The Idiot

  • Sean Carman
  • April 18, 2017
The Idiot dramatizes the alienation, and even heartbreak, of losing the narrative thread of your existence.
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The Rumpus Review of Multiple Choice by Alejandro Zambra

  • Sean Carman
  • July 26, 2016
But the problem of making fiction is just one of the many problems a reborn country must figure out.
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The Prank by Anton Chekhov

  • Sean Carman
  • October 26, 2015
Sean Carman reviews The Prank by Anton Chekhov today in Rumpus Books.
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The Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret

  • Sean Carman
  • August 10, 2015
Sean Carman reviews The Seven Good Years by Etgar Keret today in Rumpus Books.
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Get in Trouble by Kelly Link

  • Sean Carman
  • February 23, 2015
Sean Carman reviews Get in Trouble by Kelly Link today in Rumpus Books.
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MFA vs. SNL

  • Sean Carman
  • December 3, 2014
The best writers learn their craft in unexpected places, even from the foot of an improv stage.
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A Few Seconds of Radiant Filmstrip by Kevin Brockmeier

  • Sean Carman
  • April 21, 2014
Sean Carman reviews A FEW SECONDS OF RADIANT FILMSTRIP by Kevin Brockmeier today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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The Rumpus Interview with Bill Cotter

  • Sean Carman
  • March 21, 2014
Writer Bill Cotter talks about his new novel, the joy of discovering writing a bit later in life, and the dangers of accidental self-plagiarism.
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Words Will Break Cement by Masha Gessen

  • Sean Carman
  • March 13, 2014
Sean Carman reviews WORDS WILL BREAK CEMENT by Masha Gessen today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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Little Failure by Gary Shteyngart

  • Sean Carman
  • January 28, 2014
Sean Carman reviews LITTLE FAILURE by Gary Shteyngart today in The Rumpus Book Reviews.
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The Rumpus Interview with Kevin Barry

  • Sean Carman
  • December 12, 2013
Irish writer Kevin Barry sits down for a chat about life in County Sligo, not knowing what your stories are about until years after you've written them, and the summer he spent in a camping trailer on a West Cork beach.
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The Rumpus Interview with Laura van den Berg

  • Sean Carman
  • November 5, 2013
Writer Laura van den Berg talks about her newest collection, The Isle of Youth, being drawn to locations "with a potential for magic and strangeness," and how to create a continuous dream for the reader.
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