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John Semley

John Semley is a writer based in Philadelphia. His most recent book is Hater: On the Virtues of Utter Disagreeability.

Two wooden hands reach up for a wooden ball.

America, Ex Post Facto

In April 2020, as the coronavirus pandemic phase-shifted America, and the world, into a grim, new reality, a story circulated via the AP wire about a post office in the microscopically small town of Deer Isle, Maine. There, a tattered American flag had been left to languish atop ...

Against Virtuosity

February 12, 2020
Recently, idling away an especially rainy Saturday in January, I found myself sinking a solid six hours into Sony Interactive Entertainment’s 2018 blockbuster game God of War: a stupid-violent farrago of Greek and Norse mythology notable for employing a fixed, ...