Sebastian Castillo

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Sebastian Castillo is a writer and teacher born in Caracas, Venezuela and currently based in Philadelphia, PA. [1] [2] His recent novel Fresh, Green Life was the 2025 Los Angeles Review of Books Summer Book Club Pick. [3] [4] [5]

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Career

Sebastian Castillo teaches at Temple University and has written for publications such as Electric Literature, [6] JOYLAND, [7] and the New York Tyrant. [8] He has been shortlisted for BOMB's Fiction Contest. [9] Castillo's work has been described as autofictional and surrealist. [10] [11] [12]

In The Oxonian Review, Marie Ungar describes Fresh, Green Life as a "parody of and love letter to academic life" [13] grappling with the "worth of writing and thinking" given economic alienation and existential absurdity.

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References

  1. ↑ "Sebastian Castillo". Poets & Writers. July 9, 2025. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  2. ↑ "Review | The narrator of this novel is trained in — and ruined by — philosophy". The Washington Post. July 26, 2025. ISSN   0190-8286 . Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  3. ↑ ""Fresh, Green Life" by Sebastian Castillo". Los Angeles Review of Books. May 28, 2025. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  4. ↑ Vojdani, Emma Alpern, Jasmine (June 2, 2025). "8 New Books You Should Read This June". Vulture. Retrieved July 31, 2025.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
  5. ↑ "Sebastian Castillo's Book Notes music playlist for his novel Fresh, Green Life – Largehearted Boy". largeheartedboy.com. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  6. ↑ electricliterature (May 17, 2016). "Hecho En Venezuela: The Private Poetics of Narrative, Memory, and Lies". Electric Literature. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  7. ↑ "SALMON". JOYLAND PUBLISHING. April 28, 2023. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  8. ↑ "Local Favorite by Sebastian Castillo". NY Tyrant. August 24, 2020. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  9. ↑ "Interview with Sebastian Castillo – The Journal" . Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  10. ↑ Sovinski, Theodore (July 31, 2025). "Vow of Silence: On Sebastian Castillo's "Fresh, Green Life"". Cleveland Review of Books. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  11. ↑ Hour, LARB Radio (July 25, 2025). "Sebastian Castillo's "Fresh, Green Life"". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  12. ↑ Wayne, Teddy (June 10, 2025). "Lit Hub Asks: 5 Authors, 7 Questions, No Wrong Answers". Literary Hub. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
  13. ↑ "Nothing Impossible Happens". The Oxonian Review. Retrieved July 31, 2025.
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