Skip to content
seanvansickel.com

I write essays, shorter fiction, longer fiction, and music.

  • Home
  • About
  • Contact
  • Hen Fruit Safari
  • Posts

essay

Home » essay

Sarah Vowell’s The Partly Cloudy Patriot

Posted by By seanvansickel December 21, 2016Posted inReading, Reading Journal
Given recent electoral outcomes, reading essays about American political history probably doesn’t sound particularly appealing, but I found going into This American Life regular Sarah Vowell’s back catalog to be…
Read More

“Time and Distance Overcome” by Eula Biss

Posted by By seanvansickel April 12, 2016Posted inReading, Reading Journal
This is easily the best essay collection I’ve read this year. I had previously encountered Biss reading Volume 1 of Best Creative Nonfiction, as well as on the wonderful podcast…
Read More

Milan Kundera’s Testaments Betrayed

Posted by By seanvansickel November 7, 2014Posted inUncategorized1 Comment
This was probably the most intellectually challenging book I’ve read all year. Translated from the French, it's a massive essay on a broad range of topics including but not limited…
Read More

Recent Posts

  • The True Cost of Preventative Healthcare, Efficiency, and the Profit Motive
  • On Recovery and Long-Haul Covid
  • On Corporate Influence and the CDC
  • On Privatized Medical Care, Capitalism and Medical Integrity, and Patient Outcomes
  • On Privatized Medical Care and the Expenses of Illness and Poverty

Recent Comments

  1. Alex on BOOM: Oil, Money, Cowboys, Strippers, and the Energy Rush That Could Change America Forever
  2. whatsnonfiction on Blackout, Sarah Hepola, and Addiction Memoir
  3. whatsnonfiction on Books We Need to Read in Trump’s
  4. 25 Points: Universal Harvester | HTMLGIANT on Reading Log: John Darnielle’s Master of Reality (A 33⅓ Book)
  5. Blackout, Sarah Hepola, and Addiction Memoir — Sean VanSickel – ShayDbooks on Blackout, Sarah Hepola, and Addiction Memoir

Archives

  • May 2022
  • June 2017
  • March 2017
  • February 2017
  • January 2017
  • December 2016
  • November 2016
  • October 2016
  • September 2016
  • August 2016
  • July 2016
  • June 2016
  • May 2016
  • April 2016
  • March 2016
  • February 2016
  • January 2016
  • December 2015
  • November 2015
  • October 2015
  • September 2015
  • August 2015
  • July 2015
  • June 2015
  • May 2015
  • April 2015
  • March 2015
  • February 2015
  • January 2015
  • December 2014
  • November 2014
  • October 2014
  • September 2014

Categories

  • Music
  • Reading
  • Reading Journal
  • Uncategorized
  • Writing
Copyright 2024 — seanvansickel.com. All rights reserved. Sinatra WordPress Theme
Scroll to Top