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Sean Wilsey

Sean Wilsey is the author of Oh the Glory of It All, a memoir, and the editor, with Matt Weiland, of State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America, which will be published in the US in September.

From the London Review dated 19 September 2002

The Greeter

The first grieving person to arrive was a big man in his late fifties, wearing a yellow and green polo shirt stretched tight over his stomach. I realised that he was one of the people we were all here for because the words ‘Can I help you?’ seemed to sink into him, rather than leaving him unaffected, or making him conventionally polite, or annoyed. [ read more . . . ]

Selected bibliography

  • State by State: A Panoramic Portrait of America edited by Matt Weiland and Sean Wilsey (2008)
  • Oh the Glory of It All (2005)

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