Consider the Lobster. Please Start Here.
The essays in Consider the Lobster span around thirteen years, and offer thought on the adult film industry celebrating itself, the 2000 primary campaign of John McCain, the sad decline…
Maggie Nelson’s “Bluets”
Bluets Maggie Nelson “Bluets” is an essay written in short bursts, meditations in miniature on the color blue and all its Western connotations, on depression, on sex, on tranquility and…
Reading Log: Tin House 57 (WILD)
Tin House #15: Tin House: Wild, Volume 15, Number 1 by Win Mccormack (edt) I’m sold. A subscription to Tin house is definitely in my immediate future (as soon as…
Reading Log: Matthew Vollmer’s Inscriptions for Headstones
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…
2015 Reading Goals: January
I read 11 books this month and I’m happy with my selections. Well on the way to my goals for 2015. http://seanvansickel.com/2015/01/19/2014-revisited-with-metadata/
Books for Christmas
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!