The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

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November 21, 2010

Thanks to LaToya Jordan, who will be blogging as well today.

“Aimee Bender wrote the first sentence. Then, 100 writers collaborated to write the next. The story that happened follows.” — At Electric Literature’s The Outlet.

Ed Park reviews The Chicago Manual of Style. (via)

“Can fictive sex ever have artistic merit?” (via)

A reverse dictionary! (via) (Because I’m twisted and there’s something wrong with me, I entered the definition: “to masturbate and cry simultaneously.” The word it gave me: “chorus.” Hm.)

“(T)he one small node of reality left to us is inside our own heads,” from JG Ballard, who is quoted in this Guardian post on accusing science fiction readers of escapism.

BSKY

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.