Sean Wilsey

McSweeney's: Where Are They Now?

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October 18, 1999, p. 212

Matt Haber, who has a mind like a thousand flypapers tangled in a black hole, did us the service of finding the old New Yorker tale of Dave Eggers' loss of a benefit's worth of money years before NKotB's n+1 got around to doing the same. Text, plus bonus "Where are they now?" game after the jump.

(L-R: Todd Pruzan, Diane Vadino, Sean Wilsey, Dave Eggers, Kevin Shay.)  read more »

Soccer Hijacked by Pinheads Coasting on World Cup Fever

Midfielder DaMarcus Beasley of the U.S. national team.
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Midfielder DaMarcus Beasley of the U.S. national team.

In 2004, Franklin Foer, then a writer for The New Republic and Slate, published a book called How So  read more »

A Glorious Beginning Spoiled-Childhood and Memoir Both

Oh the Glory of It All, by Sean Wilsey. The Penguin Press, 482 pages, $25.95.  read more »