Recent
I wrote a postcard review of Elif Batuman’s “The Possessed” for The Rumpus.
“Abandonment” is a finalist in round three of NPR’s Three-Minute Fiction Contest. You can read it here.
“On Being Trapped in a Grain Elevator with French President Nicolas Sarkozy and Five Angry Badgers,” Gargoyle, Winter 2010
Stories
Excerpts from the Testimony of Certain Witnesses in Court of Inquiry v.
Joseph K, in Opium Issue 9 (Fall 2009)
Our Long National Nightmare is Finally Over
Batman’s Voice Mail, in Hobart, Premiere Issue ( Winter 2003)
Last Sunday, in Bridge, Nos. VII and VIII (Summer/Fall 2003)
Quimby: A Critical Assessment, in Monkeybicycle, Issue No. 2 (2003)
The White-Hot Sands of Alamagordo, New Mexico, in Pindeldyboz,
Volume One (2001)
Humor
Rod Blagojevich Writes 25 Things About Himself on Facebook
Thomas Friedman Explains the Issues of the Day
Three Thought Experiments (With Study Questions)
From the Found Notebooks of Homer’s Writing Group
A Grateful Nation Pays Homage to Gergen
Essays / Nonfiction
Dispatches from an Environmental Lawyer Who is Trying to Grow a Mustache
Poems
Ed Harrelson, Teen-Driver’s Education Instructor
Interviews / Reviews
Paperback Writer (“Beg, Borrow, Steal” author Michael Greenberg)
Discovering the Lost City: An Interview with Marine Geologist
Deborah Kelley: Part One, Part Two
Political Commentary
Kanye West Interrupts Obama Address to Investment Bankers
President Palin’s Inaugural Address
Sarah Palin: Average Hockey Mom or Spawn of Satan?
The Viewer’s Guide to the Palin Nomination
Other writing on the Huffington Post
This Seemed Unlikely
“Bliss Ferrel, Pirate in the Age of Reason,” in Call and Response, Hamiltonian Gallery, Washington, D.C., January/February 2010
Anthologies
The McSweeney’s Joke Book of Book Jokes (Vintage 2008)
Mountain Man Dance Moves: The McSweeney’s Book of Lists (Vintage 2006)
Stumbling and Raging: More Politically Inspired Fiction (edited by Stephen Elliott) (McAdam/Cage 2005)
Created in Darkness by Troubled Americans: The Best of McSweeney’s (Humor Category) (Knopf 2004/Vintage 2005)
Hidden Bonus Track
Sonnet for a Government Lawyer
Drawing by Franz Kafka, all other works copyright 2010 by Sean Carman
