The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

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July 25, 2010

A judge decides that Kafka’s safe deposit box, which contains an unpublished short story, will be released instead of destroyed, as was stated in his will.

“Some things you just shouldn’t put in your head.” At The Morning News, one star reviews of literary classics. (via Bookninja)

A lost Shelley poem won’t be released by it’s owner.

Saraba, a new literary magazine that aims to promote “the development of literature and arts in Nigeria.” (via Literary Saloon)

Hey, here’s a great review by Jessa Crispin of The Jokers by Albert Cossery.

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Seth Fischer

Seth Fischerâ€™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 Writerâ€™s Program and Antioch University, where he received his MFA.

2 responses

James

July 25, 2010

Thanks for the great finds. But the link to the Morning News piece actually links to the Kafka one.
Seth Fischer

July 25, 2010

Thanks for the heads up, James! Should be all fixed now.