Sean McDevitt is a professional copywriter, author, essayist, husband, father, and scrambled eggs maker. Not necessarily in that order.
Come on in. There's a new essay every Saturday about whatever got its hooks in me that week. 20 Questions is the fastest way to figure out whether we'd get along. The now page covers what I'm up to lately. And if you're wondering why a guy still keeps his own website in 2026, that's The Quiet Street.
In between, there are notes most days. Shorter stuff. A trailer I can't stop watching, a thought from the morning walk that wouldn't leave me alone.
Most of it circles back to the same few things. Family. Baseball. Comic books and KISS records. The small stuff that turns out to be the big stuff, usually about ten years after the fact.
Start anywhere. The essays are the long stuff, the notes are where I think out loud, and the books are what happens when I can't stop at 1,500 words.
And every Sunday, the essay and the week's notes land in your inbox as Afterglow. Pull up a chair.
Latest essay · · 4 min read
From Dawn to Dusk
For most of October, I’ve been waking up and walking in the dark. That is to say, the walks that my wife and I do every Tuesday and Thursday morning start out and continue for a bit in the dark. We can see enough to know …
Recent Posts
- This Jet Only Goes In One Direction Ayo Dosunmu wrote a fantastic piece for The Players Tribune, detailing his upbringing in Chicago, his "Jet Life" mantra and his fresh start …
- Criminal - Official Teaser I had no idea this was coming. A new two-part series is coming in January, based on the graphic novels by Ed Brubaker and Sean Phillips. …
- Repudiation Jonathan Lemire, writing in The Atlantic, lays out what the midterms mean for the future. Today’s vote is a clear marker on Trump’s road to …
- The Emotions of Voting Seth Godin -- Futility: It might feel like it doesn’t matter. Fear: Of choosing wrong, or doing it wrong. Responsibility: It isn’t given, …
- The End? Will Leitch, on his Substack newsletter, writes about tomorrow’s midterm election. I think I’m sympatico with everything here. So, instead …
The Books
Written at the kitchen table, mostly after everyone else went to bed.
Captured Ghosts
Fifteen short stories and ten personal essays that blur the line between the living and the lingering.
Goodnight Princess
A bedtime story about a bedtime story, perfect for silly readers and little princesses alike.
The Beautiful Kill
A noir-ish, first-person tale of seduction and death. Not for the kids.