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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…

2 min readFeb 4, 2024

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Sean Elder

Death Among Millionaires

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

18 min readApr 13, 2021

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Death Among Millionaires

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Sean Elder

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

27 min readFeb 15, 2021

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The Book of Ruth

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Sean Elder

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…

10 min readAug 30, 2019

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The Outsider: Jeffrey Epstein at the Dalton School

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Sean Elder

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…

3 min readJan 2, 2017

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Sean Elder

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.

21 min readNov 15, 2015

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Sean Elder

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…

2 min readOct 24, 2015

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Sean Elder

This Perfect World

The quest for an ideal day in the real world

10 min readJul 19, 2015

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Sean Elder

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…

10 min readJul 4, 2015

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Sean Elder

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

1 min readJun 23, 2015

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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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