The Back Half
Sean BuggPolitics, books, culture, and LGBTQ issues from Sean Bugg, award-winning journalist and author of Boy Does World, navigating the back half of life.
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Review: The Blood of Dawnwalker
You don’t have to get old to start losing a step in videogames. By my mid-thirties I’d already noticed my hand-eye coordination wasn’t keeping up with the youngsters growing up behind me.
Not that I was a great example of videogame skill i...
Tennis, Death, and Didion
The first time I saw someone die was on a tennis court.
My parents used to drive my sister and me around Kentucky in our big yellow van to play small tennis tournaments during the summer. Dad would sometimes play as well, if there was a di...
Reading, Writing, and Dungeon Crawling
When I first decided to do a Books & Bakes read-a-thon, I purposely set my personal goals on the low side. One, because this would be the first time I’ve tried something like this so I wasn’t sure how well it would be received. And two, bec...
The American Myth of Innocence
My personal theory of reading is that books should take you outside your zone of comfort and experience. That means not becoming ensconced in one author, one series, one genre; or, in the case of non-fiction, not relentlessly focusing on on...
Carrie, Stephen King, and the Politics of Fatness
Books & Bakes is my read-a-thon raising money for Cake4Kids, an organization that provides birthday cakes to underserved and at-risk children. Every week through Labor Day, I’ll be posting reviews and round-ups of what I’ve read and a previ...
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Former editor of Metro Weekly, award-winning journalist, author of Boy Does World, LGBTQ activist, and dabbler in cake decoration.
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