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More curious

Sean Wilsey

2014300 pagesabout 5–7 hours
2014
first published
  • 2014McSweeney's Publishing · ENGISBN 9781322553290
  • 2014McSweeney's Publishing · 300 pages · ENGISBN 9781940450544
  • 2014McSweeney's · 342 pages · ENGISBN 9781940450179
  • 2015University of Texas Press · ENGISBN 9781477308509
  • 2015de Gruyter GmbH, Walter · ENGISBN 9781477308493
  • 2015University of Texas Press · 348 pages · ENGISBN 9781477307977

In More Curious, Sean Wilsey travels across the U.S., from the launchpad at Cape Canaveral, to the isolated artists' enclave of Marfa, Texas, to the boardrooms and ballrooms of post–9/11 New York City. Wherever he is, Wilsey captures his surroundings with the precision of a photographer and the raw grace of a skateboarder (he's an amateur practitioner of both arts). And his eye always finds an unrivaled intensity of detail: here, and only here, will a reader be privy to the Dostoyevskian whiff of Marfa's fugitive underbelly, the unsung delights of a skater rag's cooking column, the exact amount of time elapsed since the soundwaves of a long-lost, legendary World Cup broadcast passed out of our solar system.

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