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Alex Sheshunoff

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Alex Sheshunoff is a writer whose work has appeared in National Geographic Adventure, Slate.com, Marketplace, The Anchorage Daily News and other very, very prestigious media outlets. Before deciding to call himself a writer, Alex snuck through Yale and started and ran an Internet company in New York called E-The People - a nonpartisan precursor to Moveon.org but with a pun in its name.

Five years later and burnt out and facing a quarter-life crisis, Alex gathered the one hundred books he was most embarrassed not to have read and moved to a small island in the Pacific called Yap. He later wrote a vaguely-humorous memoir with a very long title about the experience: A Beginner's Guide to Paradise: 9 Steps to Giving Up Everything So You Too Can
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Alex Sheshunoff Hi Ruth,

Ha! Well, I've always thought that a lot of writers choose pretty self-serious photographs for their book jackets. You know, with their hand o…more
Hi Ruth,

Ha! Well, I've always thought that a lot of writers choose pretty self-serious photographs for their book jackets. You know, with their hand on their chin - who walks around like that anyway? - or looking pensively into the middle distance, perhaps through a frosted window pane. So when it came to choose my own little bio photo, I went the opposite direction and picked this one - which, to answer your question, was taken while we were building our little house on Angaur, an outer island of Palau in the western Pacific.

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Alex Sheshunoff Oh, definitely real. It's an outer island of Yap, which, itself is part of the Federated States of Micronesia, an island group in the western Pacific.…moreOh, definitely real. It's an outer island of Yap, which, itself is part of the Federated States of Micronesia, an island group in the western Pacific.(less)
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“In his monologue Swimming to Cambodia, Spalding Gray says we travel in search of “the perfect moment,” and once attained, we can return home in peace until, in need of another such moment, we head out again.”
Alex Sheshunoff, A Beginner's Guide to Paradise: A True Story for Dreamers, Drifters, and Other Fugitives from the Ordinary

“Midlife crises are the best-funded stage of rebellion, because, finally, the rebel himself can lavish the amount of money he feels befits the depth of his self-pity.”
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“I pulled out my ticket sleeve. Across the back, I scribbled Life Lesson four: “If you ever want to give it all up to live under a palm tree and read, don’t do it. It’s hot, full of flies, and without a single good place to sit down.”
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