The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

Good morning! I have a feeling today’s gonna be alright.

If you didn’t know already, Roxane Gay and GIANT are launching a literary magazine club, which is also pretty alright if you ask me.

The Village Voice has named the “Best New York Writer Young Enough To Make You Want To Slit Your Wrists.” (via The Book Bench)

This is so cool. Turn your handwriting into a computer font. (via The Millions)

A judge for Fiction Uncovered, a prize for mid-list and unheralded literary stars, wants to know who you think is the best unrecognized writer.

“…Dostoevksy is funnier than the average American novel.” Thomas McGuane is interviewed at The Salt Lake Tribune (via Mark Athitakis)

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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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