Sean Shannon

Author of _The Prostitutes of Lake Wiishkoban_, shortlisted for the Dundee International Book Prize. Writer, English teacher, artist of many trades.

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https://www.seanshannon.org?p=5909

New blog on marking the twenty-fifth anniversary of the house fire earlier this month, and how unreal so much of this stuff from my past is starting to feel.

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https://www.seanshannon.org/?p=5906

New blog on turning fifty and just wanting to get back to work on my next book.

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https://www.seanshannon.org/?p=5904

New blog on dealing with the life-threatening cold that's blanketed this half of the country for over the past week.

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https://www.seanshannon.org/?p=5901

New blog on the ongoing nightmare that is playing through Stranger of Paradise and Final Fantasy XV, and feeling like Sq***nix never really did care about what gamers like me wanted out of video games.

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https://www.seanshannon.org/?page_id=5896

Oh hey, my personal website turns twenty-five years old today. I wrote something for the occasion. Don't read it. No one else does.

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https://www.seanshannon.org/?p=5893

New blog about feeling stupid for thinking that video game studios ever cared about telling good stories in their games, especially after playing the recent Final Fantasy VII remakes.

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https://www.seanshannon.org/?p=5890

New blog on fearing the worst for the shows I've been listening to from my hometown's public radio station, after the recent federal funding cuts and all that.

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New blog on struggling this summer after the tragedy that ended last semester so abruptly. https://www.seanshannon.org/?p=5888

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https://www.seanshannon.org/?p=5885

New blog on the importance of story for helping us prepare for the vicissitudes of life, and how playing so many underwhelming RPGs lately is making me seriously worry for our future.

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https://www.seanshannon.org/?p=5882

New blog on struggling to deal with the recent death of Jill Sobule.

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https://www.seanshannon.org/?p=5873

New blog on turning forty-nine earlier this month and ... not much else, really.

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https://www.seanshannon.org/?p=5870

New blog on the cruelty of removing access to income-based repayment plans for college loans here in America, and how it fits into the broader attacks on higher education over the past few decades. https://www.seanshannon.org/?p=5870

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https://www.seanshannon.org/?p=5864

New blog on the origins of the corporate "efficiency" regime in the nineties, and how its intrusion into education has poisoned generations of young Americans into accepting its cruelty. https://www.seanshannon.org/?p=5864

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New blog on efforts to erase knowledge and awareness of African-American history in the very month meant for marking that history.

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https://www.seanshannon.org/?p=5849

New blog on the need for colleges and universities to not surrender to the attempts to prevent inclusion on our campuses.

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https://www.seanshannon.org/?p=5837

New blog on the push to force statewide school voucher schemes across the US.

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https://www.seanshannon.org/?p=5829

New blog on taking the leap into short "vertical video" content, even if only as a producer.