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Sean Patrick Carlin Hey, Jacqui! Thanks for reaching out! Though I've been inactive on my blog all year, I'm pleased to report I've had a very productive first half of 20…moreHey, Jacqui! Thanks for reaching out! Though I've been inactive on my blog all year, I'm pleased to report I've had a very productive first half of 2024 (largely the reason for my hiatus from the blog, as it happens).

I outlined two new novellas over the winter, spent the spring writing the first draft of the first manuscript, and plan to "go to pages" on the second m.s. this coming summer. In the autumn, I'll revise and edit the two manuscripts, then pair them with an unpublished novella I wrote in 2019; all three will be collected in a single volume -- a trilogy of coming-of-age magical-realism stories about 12-year-old boys in the late '80s. Tonally, I'd say these stories are in the vein of Joe Hill's Snapshot and Stephen King's The Body.

On June 24, I'll be celebrating the tenth anniversary of my blog with a three-part series titled "Under the Influence," in which I explore how an artist develops a singular style and voice all their own, then examine ten of my own formative creative influences, demonstrating how they inspired The Dogcatcher. (I'll also talk a bit more about my forthcoming novella collection there, too!) Look for the first essay in that series to post two weeks from today!

Beyond that, everything's swell in my life and in Noo Yawk! How are you?(less)
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The City That Never Scoops:  On Getting the New York We Deserve

We interrupt our regularly scheduled program to bring you this breaking sociopolitical rant.

This past winter, in the immediate wake of an inspiring, hopeful, historically unprecedented act of political esprit de corps, untold thousands of New Yorkers made the dispiriting conscious choice to literally treat their city like shit.

When the snow stubbornly carpeting New York in January and February

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“Yet when scientific technology liberated Man from the vagaries of the natural world, it also severed his connection to that world, rendering him in it but no longer of it.”
Sean Patrick Carlin, The Dogcatcher

“You've gotta dance like there's nobody watching,
Love like you'll never be hurt,
Sing like there's nobody listening,
And live like it's heaven on earth.”
William W. Purkey

“Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't matter, and those who matter don't mind.”
Bernard M. Baruch

“You own everything that happened to you. Tell your stories. If people wanted you to write warmly about them, they should have behaved better.”
Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird

“But one does not liberate someone by alienating them. Authentic liberation--the process of humanization--is not another deposit to be made in a person. Liberation is a praxis: action and reflection upon the world in order to transform it. Those truly committed to the cause of liberation can accept neither the mechanistic concept of consciousness as an empty vessel to be filled, nor the use of banking [pedagogical] methods of domination (propaganda, slogans--deposits) in the name of liberation.”
Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed

“You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
C.S. Lewis

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