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Milan Kundera’s “Identity”: Sure, Maybe Not As Good As “Unbearable Lightness”, But Much Shorter!

By seanvansickel June 9, 2015Uncategorized

Kundera’s seminal novel “The Unbearable Lightness of Being” was my favorite book out of last year’s readings and is easily in my top 10 books of all time. “Identity” is…

100 Posts

By seanvansickel June 4, 2015Uncategorized

WordPress has just informed me that my last post was number 100 on seanvansickel.com. That seems like a lot of posts since last September... Thanks so much for reading and…

On Editing

By seanvansickel June 4, 2015Uncategorized

Throughout my undergrad writing experience, “editing” simply meant speed-reading my paper out loud to catch any glaring errors (full disclosure -this is also about all the editing I do for…

Reading Log: Asterios Polyp and the Literary Merits of Graphic Novels

By seanvansickel March 30, 2015Reading Journal1 Comment

I’m a big fan of graphic novels; one the the projects I’m working on right now is a collaborative effort that extends into visual narrative. I enjoy comic books (check…

Reading Log: Matthew Vollmer’s Inscriptions for Headstones

By seanvansickel February 7, 2015Reading Journal

Reading diversely isn’t just about reading authors who are diverse in their ethnicity, gender, nationality, or sexual identity. It also includes reading diverse kinds of books or literary forms, books…

Reading Log: John Cavanagh’s Piper at the Gates of Dawn (A 33 1/3 Book)

By seanvansickel February 3, 2015Reading Journal

Yup, more rock journalism. I’m not tired of it yet. Cavanagh sights in perfectly here, focusing on the album itself and only touching on the tumultuous events that followed (the…

Why I Write This Blog, and What It Is

By seanvansickel January 14, 2015Reading Journal

This blog is intended primarily to serve as a personal reading log, where I record my initial, raw thoughts on the books I have read. These are thoughts that may…

Books for Christmas

By seanvansickel December 29, 2014Music

Books make good presents. These are what I got this year (Man in the Gray Flannel Suit and The French Lieutenant's Woman are first editions). Thanks!

Powell’s Partner

By seanvansickel December 18, 2014Uncategorized

(Click here to buy books!) Powell’s is a great store. As much as I love browsing brick-and-mortar used book stores, sometimes I need (or want) a particular book. Powell’s is…

Revising Prose, Carlin, Euphemism and the Official Style

By seanvansickel December 5, 2014Uncategorized

Richard Lanham’s book Revising Prose -now in its fourth edition- has the worst cover of any book I’ve read this year. Something about living in academia goes hand-in-hands with horrible…