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Sean Michaels

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SEAN MICHAELS is the author of the novels Us Conductors, The Wagers and Do You Remember Being Born?, and founder of the pioneering music blog Said the Gramophone. His non-fiction has appeared in The Guardian, McSweeney’s, Pitchfork and The New Yorker. Sean is a recipient of the Scotiabank Giller Prize, the QWF Paragraphe Hugh MacLennan Prize, the Grand Prix Numix, the Prix Nouvelles Écritures, and he has been nominated for the Dublin Literary Award, the Kirkus Prize, and the Prix des libraires du Quebec. Born in Stirling, Scotland, Sean lives in Montreal, Canada.

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Us Conductors

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"“i was permitted to dislike art. i did not wield this power as a captor, as permission to scorn or condescend to the work i didn’t approve of. but it was a kind of respite. permission to move past (or through?) what i didn’t (yet?) admire. i knew how" Read more of this review »
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"On 11 November 2023, I saw author Sean Michaels speak about this then-newly-issued book at the Texas Book Festival in Austin.

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“What is one to do with old letters? Old gold, he thought. It is difficult to throw away anything that once seemed precious.”
Sean Michaels, The Wagers

“Naps have always seemed like a luxury I can’t afford.” Rhoda put her hands back on the wheel. “I get it,” she said. “I used to think that way. Get your lazy butt back to work. More hours, more clients. I couldn’t stop. My daughter’s like that too. But that’s capitalism, Marian. I try to tell her: ‘That’s the powers that be.’ They want to squeeze every minute of labor out of you. They want you to think your only value is your work. That anything else is laziness. But it isn’t laziness: it’s resistance.”
Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?

“The Nap Ministry was founded by Tricia Hersey in 2016 and I highly recommend her 2022 book, Rest is Resistance: A Manifesto.”
Sean Michaels, Do You Remember Being Born?

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