Recent
This is Who We Are on McSweeney’s
Harlem Blues, a review of Harlem is Nowhere, on The Rumpus
Lounge Music, a review of In Their Cups, on The Rumpus
I co-wrote the Self-Guided Tour at the Museum of Unnatural History
in Washington, D.C., and co-wrote and supervised the production of
the Journal of the Unknown Founder, an exhibit in the museum.
McSweeney’s Internet Tendency
Dispatches from an Environmental Lawyer Who is Trying to Grow a Mustache
Our Long National Nightmare is Finally Over
Rod Blagojevich Writes 25 Things About Himself on Facebook
Thomas Friedman Explains the Issues of the Day
Ed Harrelson, Teen-Driver’s Education Instructor
Three Thought Experiments (With Study Questions)
Discovering the Lost City: An Interview with Marine Geologist
Deborah Kelley: Part One, Part Two
From the Found Notebooks of Homer’s Writing Group
A Grateful Nation Pays Homage to Gergen
The Huffington Post
I am the “They” From Whom We Need to Reclaim Our Honor
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
The Rumpus
Paperback Writer: Interview with Michael Greenberg
The Last Book I Loved: Elif Batuman’s The Possessed
National Public Radio
Abandonment (finalist in round three of NPR’s Three-Minute Fiction Contest)
Stories
Excerpts from the Testimony of Certain Witnesses in Court of Inquiry v.
Joseph K, in Opium Issue 9 (Fall 2009)
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)
Poetry
An Open Letter of Prayer to the Country of Russia on On Earth as It Is
“On Being Trapped in a Grain Elevator with French President Nicolas Sarkozy
and Five Angry Badgers,” Gargoyle, Winter 2010
Essays / Nonfiction
Interviews / Reviews
Assorted
A Hard Rain (runner-up in the Out of the Storm News Bad Weather
Writing contest).
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
