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Sean Bernard

praise for Studies in the Hereafter "a true original" - Kirkus "A soaring tribute to any human life, in all its flawed glory." - Diagram "Wild and imaginative." - Charles Yu "A novel … Read More about Sean Bernard

Studies in the Hereafter

Studies in the Hereafter

By Sean Bernard

A disillusioned office bureaucrat in the afterlife has come to realize that maybe heaven isn't all it's cracked up to be. Bored by the endless routine of work, golf, and vegan food, he finds his one…

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Nuclear

Nuclear

By Sean Bernard

  Winner of the 2012 CutBank Chapbook Contest One night, I saw my wife with Ginny. I’d offered to take the trash out, a pizza box, really, so the grease wouldn’t smell through the night. I…

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Desert Sonorous: Stories

Desert sonorous: stories

By Sean Bernard

Undercover space aliens share an RV outside Tucson. A high school girl tries to make sense of the shooting of Gabby Giffords. Basketball fans stalk their team's head coach. A young couple falls in and…

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Manifesto #4: Meetings

The focus should not be on fear of the “what if” scenario if we don’t hold meetings, but to focus on building meetings to improve them Meeting definitions and roles should be defined by Position Description Questionnaires (PDQs) The formula for determining roles may not be one that can be applied to everyone Professionally, certain […]

Manifesto #3: Stasis

In the face of the world’s terrible givens, we are resolved: 1. Given that, MOTION IS THE DESTRUCTION OF POTENTIAL, We endorse stasis: we do not move. We are very still. 2. Given that, NOISE IS DESTRUCTION OF SILENCE, we hold our breath; we still our pulse; we have arranged for operations on the self; […]

from LA MAG: “Seven Minutes in Heaven with Sean Bernard”

What is heaven like? The inscrutable nature of the afterlife is at the heart of Sean Bernard’s debut novel Studies In The Hereafter, due out from Pasadena’s Red Hen Press on August 15. Read More

from DIAGRAM: “Studies in the Hereafter makes me squeamish.”

It reminds me of my mortality and my vulnerabilities. It reminds me of life's banalities. And yet, in spite of or perhaps due to these reminders, the novel is a soaring tribute to any human life, in all its flawed glory. Read More

El Paso Times: ‘Desert Sonorous’ searches for meaning

In Bernard's "Anniversary," one of two stories that revolves around the shooting of Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, a young woman says that Tucson is "sort of beautiful ... As long as you forget how ugly it really is." Read More

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Ordinary Bio: Sean Bernard lives and teaches creative writing at the University of La Verne in southern California, where he edits the journal Prism Review. He holds degrees from Arizona, Oregon … Read More about About