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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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    Welcome to Sunday

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    Here’s Some Stories I Like

    Good news! I’m back to doing this list of very short stories after a bit of a hiatus. As usual, below are some fun and weird ones that only take a minute to read but will make your day better.…

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    The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement

    If you haven’t been reading our reviews, it’d be a good week to catch up.

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    The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

    A Julian Assange coloring book, via Galleycat. Maud Newton and Alex Chee “on creating the feeling you want the reader to feel.” Four ways of dealing with religion in science fiction. This hashtag #followreader started by @charabbott is killing the…

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    This Is Why We Keep Slavoj Around

    “Through actions like the WikiLeaks disclosures, the shame – our shame for tolerating such power over us – is made more shameful by being publicised.” — A little light Zizek for your morning reading pleasure. (via)

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    The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

    “It’s a narrative in which the large-scale structure is determined by the progress of the idea, not the progress of the characters’ lives.” — Francis Spufford explains his book Red Plenty at A Public Space. Apparently Joseph Conrad wrote a…

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    The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement

    Sunday’s everybody’s favorite day to catch up with what The Rumpus published last week.

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    Wanna Write Right On Top Of The Internet?

    Ever get so frustrated with the Internet that you wanna just take a pen and write right on top of the screen? Well, that happened to me so many times that I decided to start a website where people do…

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    The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

    I haven’t been this sick in a long, long time, so it will be a very short roundup today. Can someone remind me what it’s like to breathe through your nose? The awesome LaToya Jordan will be blogging for the…

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    The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement

    Sunday’s the day to catch up with Rumpus Books.

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    Public Domain Day

    Yesterday was public domain day. F. Scott Fitzgerald, Leon Trotsky, Emma Goldman, and Mikhael Bulgakov, among others, are now free of copyright restrictions. Erm, in Europe. This whole thing is really confusing, and I’m no lawyer.  But as far as…

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    An Album Of Banned Music

    “And if I would have known when I was a child what I was about to get myself into, you know, I really do wonder if I would have pursued this.” — At Guernica, an interview with Deeyah, whose involvement…