‘This Kind of Man’ is Available Today!
Sean Murphy“This Kind of Man,” my first collection of short fiction, is officially live TODAY. Yes, the process of publishing a book is kind of like a marathon, if the training…
Unsolicited Press: Q&A with Sean Murphy
THIS KIND OF MAN by Sean Murphy offers an unvarnished look at life in 21st Century America, excavating the complicated, tender, wild truth of what it is to be a…
‘This Kind of Man’ Virtual Launch with Jenna Blum
How do I love Jenna Blum? Let me count the ways... She's a brilliant writer, full-stop -- itself a ceaseless source of joy and inspiration (for me, for any author).…
Original Fiction via The Good Men Project
Now’s the Time: Until We See the Problem Clearly and Realize It’s Us, Why Should We Expect Anything to Change? “Now’s the Time,” from my forthcoming collection This Kind of Man,…
Introducing THIS KIND OF MAN
"She didn’t understand how men could do those things. What things? he asked, and she said, The things men do. Then he nodded. Oh, he said, those things." —Tim O’Brien, The…
2023: A Creative Recap
Kicking off '23 in Todos Santos From 1455’s Movable Type, Issue 15 (peruse the complete archives, here): The State of the Art, right now, is a sum total of every individual…
Football and American Faith
Lots of well-deserved buzz surrounding this timely and important story by Dave Sheinin (read via the Washington Post here and more from the series here and here). This entire triumph…
The Style’s the Thing: The Inimitable Martin Amis
Martin Amis poses for a photographer June 12, 2000 at a book signing at the Beverly Hills Library in Beverly Hills, CA. (by Frederick M. Brown/Online USA) Style is not…
He is Martin Amis (and We’re Not)
Martin Amis was not merely the supreme literary stylist of his generation, his non-fiction was, arguably (unbelievably) possibly even better than his fiction. An absolute master, and incomparable in every…
2022: A Creative Recap
From 1455’s Movable Type, Issue 13 (peruse the complete archives, here). So, what’s next? It’s possible this endeavor could continue to evolve and grow in the right ways, or we might…