Michael Sean Comerford
Bestselling Author & Multimedia Journalist
The Story Cycle: America's Coasts in Climate Crisis - Beast of Main Street - American OZ
★★★★★
Everyone matters - Listening is a force of nature.
Michael Sean Comerford is working on The Story Cycle: America's Coasts in Climate Crisis. He embarked on a year-long epic climate project video-interviewing hundreds of ordinary people about their views on climate change. He bicycled 7,000 miles and across 22 states along the Atlantic, Pacific & Gulf coasts!
Fishermen, housewives, firemen, teachers, oil men, nuclear power workers, Google employees, the young and old tell their views on the climate. Check out the YouTube channels.
People living with the climate crisis on the coasts deal with hurricanes, atmospheric rivers, bomb cyclones, wildfires & heat domes. These are matters of life and death on the coasts.
Manmade climate change is a matter of getting people to think about their viewpoints. One life is connected to so many others. Every life matters so listening is a force of nature.
“It touched me … You can see and hear (the) emotion!”— Sasha-Ann Simons, WBEZ Chicago public radio
Listen to the voices of the people during the Covid pandemic for Beast of Main Street. Comerford bicycled slowly from Chicago to L.A. along America's Main Street - Route 66. It's 'slow journalism, because the slower you go, the deeper you get.
Beast of Main Street is about what people care about during pandemics, maybe going back to pandemics in our past. Liberals, conservatives, a Proud Boy, rich, poor, young, old, and Route 66 characters talk pandemic stories and how the pandemic changed the way they see life.
Through all the suffering and fear he witnessed during a pandemic surge, Comerford finds people seeking meaning in life and what really matters in the end.
“One of the best books I’ve read in the last decade!” – Rick Kogan, Chicago Literary Hall of Fame, Chicago Tribune, WGN
Step right up for Comerford's astonishing year working in traveling carnivals for American OZ. The art of making other people happy!
People seek love and adventure on the open road.
Comerford works at state fairs and festivals from California to New York, Alaska to Mexico. He hitchhikes to each jump.
He shares wild stories of freaks, a carnival pimp, a tramp gold miner, and the last King of the Sideshows. An insult dunk tank clown is shot. Masked gunment rob his carnival. And a young showman friend dies on the road.
American OZ:
"Pulls back the curtain … to show us ourselves!"
Dennis Hetzel, BookTrib reviewer, journalist, educator, publisher, book lover.
Beast of Main Street:
"Part Studs Terkel's "Working," part Steinbeck's 'Travels with Charley,' and part Hunter S. Thompson gonzo reporting!""
Sam McManis, columnist, Arizona Daily Sun
