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Sean Fallon

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in South Africa
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Fiction, Historical Fiction

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Sean Fallon is a writer and film critic living in Melbourne with his wife and son. He has been published by The Big Issue, Reader's Digest, Defenestration Mag, the Melbourne Writer’s Festival, The Talk Film Society, Audience’s Everywhere, Writer Loves Movies, and Film Inquiry. He writes for Hard Times and Hard Drive.

His debut novel, Bobby vs The Duke, is about politics, friendship, America, drinking, music, Vietnam, the '60s, running away from home, writing, and falling in love, and is available now.

You can learn more about him here - seanfallonwrites.wordpress.com ...more

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Sean Fallon For my current work in progress it was a mix of sources: my morbid fascination with the American presidential election, my interest in the Kennedys, a…moreFor my current work in progress it was a mix of sources: my morbid fascination with the American presidential election, my interest in the Kennedys, and a piece of IMDB trivia about John Wayne being asked to run for president in 1968. All of those things swirled around my head for ages and then one night, while my wife and I celebrated our three year anniversary of being boyfriend and girlfriend, we were drinking vodka and cokes, eating takeaway currys, and watching Big Boi videos, when the idea for a road trip book about the 1968 election being contested between John Wayne and Bobby Kennedy jumped into my brain. The initial idea changed a whole lot in the interim 7-ish years, but that was the original spark of inspiration. (less)
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Bobby vs. The Duke (James D...
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Starter Villain
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Say Nothing by Patrick Radden Keefe
Say Nothing: A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland
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How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
How to Hide an Empire: A History of the Greater United States
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A Gentleman in Moscow
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Batman by Dan Watters
Batman: Dark Patterns
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This was insanely good. It's been a while since I've read a Batman comic this strong. The last one was probably The Batman's Grave, which had my favourite version of Alfred but was unfortunately written by a creep, so we won't get any follow-ups.
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Sean’s Quotes

Michael Chabon
“The obscure unease that Pluto has always inspired, a dog owned by a mouse, daily confronted with the mutational horror of Goofy.”
― Michael Chabon, The Yiddish Policemen's Union
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Stephen King
“I do not aim with my hand; he who aims with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I aim with my eye.

I do not shoot with my hand; he who shoots with his hand has forgotten the face of his father.
I shoot with my mind.

I do not kill with my gun; he who kills with his gun has forgotten the face of his father.
I kill with my heart.”
― Stephen King, The Gunslinger
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