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Sean Elder

Wreck and Recovery

Watching George and Tammy, the Showtime miniseries about the tempestuous marriage of George Jones (Michael Shannon) and Tammy Wynette…

Feb 4

Feb 4

Death Among Millionaires

The rich are different than you and me. Sometimes they get away with murder.

Apr 13, 2021

Death Among Millionaires

Apr 13, 2021

The Book of Ruth

From the AIDS epidemic to Covid, with an earthquake in between, Project Open Hand has never stopped feeding people with love

Feb 15, 2021

The Book of Ruth

Feb 15, 2021

The Outsider: Jeffrey Epstein at the Dalton School

Note: I wrote this story for Town & Country, where I am a contributing writer, before Epstein was found dead in his cell at the…

Aug 30, 2019

The Outsider: Jeffrey Epstein at the Dalton School

Aug 30, 2019

Alt and Catch Fire

We’re about halfway through the second season of Amazon’s Man in the High Castle and if the series hasn’t gone off the rails (the way last…

Jan 2, 2017

Jan 2, 2017

How Great Is Allah?

Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Ayad Akhtar on Islamophobia, losing one’s religion and what Jerzy Grotowski has to do with any of it.

Nov 15, 2015

Nov 15, 2015

Neatness Counts: Does this company have the worst customer service ever?

Okay, when it comes to the declining state of customer service, including the impossibility of ever talking to a live person, the bar is…

Oct 24, 2015

Oct 24, 2015

This Perfect World

The quest for an ideal day in the real world

Jul 19, 2015

Jul 19, 2015

A Sense of the Land: An Interview with Gary Snyder

Last month I interviewed Zen poet and California native Snyder for an article in Newsweek; he had come to San Francisco’s Nourse Theater to…

Jul 4, 2015

Jul 4, 2015

I posted this old story about my father’s suicide on Facebook on Father’s Day — not to be a downer…

Jun 23, 2015

Jun 23, 2015

Sean Elder

Sean Elder

Contributing writer Town & Country; co-author of Great Is the Truth: Secrecy, Scandal and the Quest for Justice at the Horace Mann School (FSG, November 2015)

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