The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement

supplement2It’s Sunday, which means Rumpus Books has a week’s worth of book reviews for you, plus two interviews, a conversation about the future of the Internet, and an essay on E-Books, all below the fold.

This week, Rumpus Books reviewed a story collection, a book of poetry and a novel.

What Is An Anthem — “A poet doesn’t review the poems in G.C. Waldrep’s Archicembalo—she listens to them.”

Not-So-Ancient-History — A review of The Boy Next Door, a novel by Irene Sabatini.3069432191_416a66192e

A review of One of These Things Is Not Like the Others, a story collection by Stephanie Johnson.

Also, be sure not to miss E-Doldrums: A Book Publisher Confronts E-Books, The Rumpus Interview with Alisdair Gray, the third installment of Stephen Elliott’s book store interviews, and a conversation with Jonathan Zittrain’s on the future of the Internet.


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Seth Fischer’s writing has twice been listed as notable in The Best American Essays and has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize by several publications, including Guernica. He was the founding Sunday editor at The Rumpus and is the current nonfiction editor at The Nervous Breakdown. He is a Dornsife PhD Fellow at USC and been awarded fellowships and residencies by Ucross, Lambda Literary, Jentel, Ragdale, and elsewhere, and he teaches at the UCLA-Extension Writer’s Program and Antioch University, where he received his MFA.

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