The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

Seth Fischer bio ↓  ·  September 5th, 2010  ·  filed under books

It’s Labor Day weekend, which we get, partially, because the U.S. military and U.S. Marshals killed and injured a bunch of workers while breaking a strike and then Grover Cleveland felt bad about it. Or he was scared. One of the two. Now you can’t say you didn’t learn something today.

Now, book blogs!

This dude Lane Smith wrote a book about what a book is for people who forgot or never knew or something. (via)

Hey if you’re a Dune nerd the Dune encyclopedia, which has been out of print forever, is back because of the Internets.

Jeff Deck and Benjamin Herson went around the country fixing typos on street signs. (via)

People sad bookstore going out of business after not buying books at bookstore. (via)

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Seth Fischer's writing has appeared or is forthcoming in Swink, PankGuernica, Monkeybicycle, Gertrude, and elsewhere. He's Sunday Editor at The Rumpus and founding editor of The Splinter Generation and webscribbler.net. He also does writing consultation. Reach him at seth.fischer (at) gmail.com or @sethfischer. More from this author →

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