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Sean McGowan
Sean McGowan is a Chicago-based writer and comedian. His jokes have appeared in The New Yorker and McSweeney’s. His ATM pin is 7593.
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June 7, 2024A Brief History of Time Travel
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April 25, 2022The Book of Job, Revisited
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January 28, 2021The Art of Conversation for Eloquent Sophisticates
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August 24, 2020The Best Mount Everest Pranks of All Time
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July 24, 2020How to Remember the Alphabet
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March 11, 2020CNN’s Fact Checker Daniel Dale Goes to the Grocery Store
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September 6, 2019I Get That This One Is Newer But That Doesn’t Mean We Have to Call Mine The Old Testament
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June 21, 2019You Are Now Browsing In Incognito Mode
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April 30, 2019Sorry Kid, But the Amount of Cute Animal Posts I’ve Mainlined Has Numbed Me to Even the Most Adorable Content
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August 16, 2018Seen on a Telephone Pole in Your Neighborhood
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September 8, 2017Write Drunk, Edit Sober
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December 13, 2016Why I Get All My News From a Man Trapped At the Bottom of a Well
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April 25, 2025This Five-Hundred-Word Bumper Sticker on My Tesla Explains Why I’m Not a Bad Person
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April 21, 2025Getting Ahead of It: JD Vance Almost Definitely Didn’t Kill the Pope
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May 5, 2025Lest We Forget the Horrors: An Unending Catalog of Trump’s Cruelties, Collusions, Corruptions, and Crimes
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April 23, 2025I Love You More Than Anything, but I Would Rather Die Than Talk to You on the Phone
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