Sean Carswell is a former carpenter, housepainter, dishwasher, pizza delivery boy, and warehouse clerk. His fiction has appeared in dozens of literary journals. He has been a staff writer for Flipside
In this metaphysical thriller, a thirty-something punk rocker fleeing a troubled marriage is hired for a grant writing job at a southern California psychiatric hospital. When he gets tangled up in a n
"Leave it to the audacious Sean Carswell to crack the code on this secret society of writers, especially after so many other publications (theBeliever, Bitch!, Vanity Fair) have tried and failed.
After being reported as dead in a German POW camp, Jack Chesley returns to L.A. in 1947 very much alive, only to discover that his wife is dead—and her twin sister insists that it wasn’t an accident l
Occupy Pynchon examines power and resistance in the writer’s post–Gravity’s Rainbow novels. As Sean Carswell shows, Pynchon’s representations of global power after the neoliberal revolution of the 198
Sean Carswell is an eyewitness correspondent of the marginally employed, a street-level philosopher of the underclass majority. Barney's Crew is a short story collection about a world full of disgrunt