My Adventures with Don Quixote: Part One
If you’ve stumbled upon this essay without having read last week’s introduction to “My Adventures with Don Quixote”, you can read it now by clicking the above link. Otherwise onward ho … I’m presently...
View ArticleMy Adventures with Don Quixote: Part Two
This past weekend I finished reading the first half of Don Quixote, the entirety, that is, of Cervantes’ 1605 novel. As noted in Part One of “My Adventures with Don Quixote”, the second half of what...
View ArticleCover Design of My Upcoming Book “An Essay concerning Human Enquiry”
Human Enquiry © 2013 Sean M. Madden To keep apprised of publication details, I’d suggest subscribing to my newsletter. Sean M. Madden is a writer-educator, photographer and slow traveler. A digital...
View ArticleNow Available! “An Essay concerning Human Enquiry” by Sean M. Madden
My new book — An Essay concerning Human Enquiry — was published on Smashwords, my ebook distributor, this past Monday, 1 April. A couple of days later it went live on Amazon.com as well as on all other...
View ArticleReview: Staying On by Paul Scott
(click image to buy via Amazon) Staying On by Paul Scott University of Chicago Press 215 pages List Price: $17.00 Amazon: $11.84 It’s been nearly a decade since I read Paul Scott’s The Raj Quartet. I...
View ArticleSlicing and Dicing One’s Own Existence; or, An Update After One Year of Slow...
Lacking a photograph depicting bafflement — though I’m sure I must have one somewhere — I suggest you picture in your own mind’s eye that very thing, that look of utter confusion Non-Image Copyright ©...
View ArticleIs This Failure?
The Struggle, running between Ambleside and Kirkstone Pass, in the Lake District, Cumbria While house- and pet-sitting in a tucked-away place in the Lake District, I’ve been reading a collection of F....
View ArticleBurgos² — A Book of Our Acclaimed Instagram Photographs of Burgos, Spain
Images from Burgos² © 2013 Mufidah Kassalias & Sean M. Madden “Absolutely brilliant!! It’s a fantastic book, congratulations! A very complete view on the city, its people and landscapes.” — Héctor...
View ArticleWhat a Year It’s Been: Slow Travels, Books & Other Launches into the Unknown
This is an essay I’ve been wanting to write for a while now, as a means to honor the year behind us as well as to set forth some intentions for the year ahead. Having just shared a gorgeous homemade...
View ArticleSummer in Berlin and Beyond
Marie-Elisabeth-Lüders-Haus, Berlin © 2014 Sean M. Madden Mufidah and I arrived in Berlin one month ago today. We also crossed into the third straight year of our slow travels on 16 May, while...
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