The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

Seth Fischer bio ↓  ·  November 22nd, 2009  ·  filed under books

Good morning! I’m up against a pretty nasty deadline, so blogging might be a bit light today. In the meantime, here’s some links for you from the book blogs.

What is the state of reading among the armed forces in Iraq and Afghanistan?

The worst dinner party ever: “The guests were ushered into a room that was decorated entirely in black…, lit only by flickering funeral lamps. Each guest’s place was marked with a gravestone engraved with his or her name, and instead of the customary soft couches, they reclined on rock-hard benches.”

The future is coming, and it looks like Google. “It is hard to overstate how big this change could be.”

Before this moment, I had never even considered the possibility of anything like bookrunners. I think I was born fifty years too late.

Rebecca Solnit at BOMB Magazine: “Like in New Orleans, the public was demonized. That’s the social disaster, which is not at all the same thing as a natural disaster.” (see also The Rumpus interview with Solnit)

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Seth Fischer's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Swink, Pank, Guernica, Monkeybicycle, Gertrude, and elsewhere. He's working on a novel about a girl who accidentally raises an army and destroys the world, and he's founding editor of The Splinter Generation. He also teaches and tutors and administrates and does copyediting and copywriting so that he can pay bills, but that only works sometimes. If you could help him make that work all the time, he would probably give you a hug, but only if you wanted one. Reach him at seth.fischer (at) gmail.com or @sethfischer. More from this author →

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