Sean Carswell is the author of eight books including the crime novel Dead Extra, which will be released by Prospect Park Books in May 2019. He's an associate professor at CSU Channel Islands.
CONTRIBUTOR ARTICLES

A Lure for the Devil: On James Gunn’s “Deadlier than the Male” and Gilles Deleuze’s “The Philosophy of Crime Novels”
Sean Carswell talks about Gilles Deleuze's favorite noir novel, a forgotten book that parodies the genre....

James M. Cain and the West Virginia Mine Wars
Sean Carswell looks into James M. Cain and his time reporting on the West Virginia Mine Wars....

Mass-Produced Identity
Sean Carswell reviews Tomoyuki Hoshino’s novel “ME.”...

The Mind Controls: Sean Carswell on Scott O’Connor’s Half World
Henry is a Ward Cleaver-type when he’s at home. When he’s at work, he is the banality of evil, whose 9 to 5 government job results in untold atrocities....
