Seth Fischer

Here are links to some really fun and weird very short stories you can read in just a minute. Enjoy! “The witch knows spells but won’t use them. It is more along the lines of witchy ethics to stand by…

“(T)he first recorded use of “bad shag” dates to 1788, that to “beat skin”* (1944) doesn’t mean what you think, you pervert, and that the term “dude” was once (1883) considered so offensive that “a vigorous Bloomington woman cowhided a…

“Even an animal respects a man’s desire, if it wants to copulate with him.” — From Saddam Hussein’s Zabiba and the King. A really brilliant interview with “America’s first openly transgender law professor.” Augmented reality book shelving. (via) And Mark…

Sunday’s the day to catch up with what Rumpus Books published last week.

At the Guardian, on “the strange allure of Tennessee Williams’ journals.” “Kamila, a nineteen year old teacher in training, became an entrepreneur, not because she knew the first thing about business, but because she knew she had five brothers and…

It’s Sunday, which is both the Lord’s day and the day to catch up with Rumpus Books. Coincidence? 

Meg Pokrass is doing something kind of brilliant. She’s making animated short shorts using that text-to-movie software that’s generally used for those “So You Want To…” animations (i.e. So You Want To Write A Novel, So You Want To Get…

““You’re just lucky,” she joked, “that it didn’t send your copy of Best Torture Clubs of the Northeast or How to Care for your Rubber Masks.”” — There appear to be some glitches in e-book lending. Carolyn Kellogg at Jacket…