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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

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Seth Fischer

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This story shows that 80% of the Best American Short Story stories come from the same 42 journals, and over half come from the same 12 journals, and, well, to editorialize a little, that seems a little lazy on the part of BASS. (via)

A kind of fascinating write-up of Kenya’s literary journal Kwani? (So What? in Swahili.)   (via)

An illustrated Mark Twain’s Advice to Little Girls. (via)

And we’ll end with some good news: LA’s public libraries will be reopening on Mondays, thanks to restored funding due to Measure L. (Personally, though I’m new to the area, I have to say I’m blown away by the libraries here.)

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Seth Fischer
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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