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Seth Fischer
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Video Readings For Authors Who Can’t Make Videos
As I sit here, writing on this website, thinking about the episode of Angel I just watched for the 50th time (don’t judge me), listening to various different YouTube channels (I change them every ten minutes), and wondering how the…
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About Yukio Mishima
“His was a life of ceaseless self-reinvention – a dutiful son and law student who became, aged 24, the scandalising author of the homoerotic Confessions of a Mask; a wan aesthete who bulked himself up into a muscle-man poseur; a homosexual…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
I’m in Denver, where I grew up, dodging a miller moth invasion (the smell of one burning in a halogen lamp always makes me think of home), babysitting a good friend’s two year old son, and reading through book blogs.…
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Here Я Some Stories I Like
Below, find links to some very weird and fun short stories I like that’ll only take you a minute to read but will make your day better. But first, a note: I’ve heard from a few of you grammarians out…
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A Dish Best Not Served
“It’s important that I never come to a novel trying to avenge anyone. I always tell my students that every character has to have a legitimate point in every argument, in every conversation. If I can’t be even with a…
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Some Potentially Good News
“You’ve probably got only two years to live.” — Former HIV patient Timothy Brown’s partner, in 1995, after Brown was diagnosed with HIV. He now, after a blood treatment for leukemia and HIV, appears to be completely free of the…
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Saturday Morning Links
Good morning, all. Today, I’ll be stepping in for Brian Spears, who’s getting married this weekend. Congratulations, Amy and Brian, from everyone at The Rumpus! Now, links! In case you missed it, V.S. Naipaul recently said “I don’t think so”…
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Books For Men Are Apparently By Men
“It is curious, though, that out of all 75 books every man should read, only one, not two or five or seventeen, but one of those books, A Good Man Is Hard to Find by Flannery O’Connor, is written by a…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
“Men were assholes, women were victims; men were active, women passive. Given the choice, I would have preferred to be an active asshole. Instead, I kept writing.” — At Elle, Kate Christensen talks about the phrase “dick for a day,”…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Happy Sunday! Rumpus Books had kind of a kick ass week. Come see what we’ve been up to.