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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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    The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement

    Sunday is Rumpus Books day. And in case you didn’t know, there’s nothing sexier than books. 

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    The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

    Today, LaToya Jordan‘s gonna be posting stuff too because she is awesome. Welcome LaToya, and thanks! Alright, book blogs! Apparently literary magazines are in the clear or something. This made me laugh, and then it made me want to punch myself…

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    Welcome to Sunday

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    Here’s Some Stories I Like

    Here’s some very very short excerpts from some very short stories that only took a minute to read but made me feel something. Enjoy! “God’s grace is wide and deep as the sea. I’ve found that if I sit here…

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    “A Literary Magazine For Your Ears”

    I was reading the always spectacular book blog The Things They Read and I came across this write-up of The Drum Magazine, a literary magazine devoted to authors reading their work aloud. I have an embarrassing admission to make. I…

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    What Philosophers Look Like

    Andrew Sullivan pointed me in the direction of these portraits of philosophers by Steve Pyke. Funny, with few exceptions (like Zizek, and if you feel like being exasperated, check out the quote under his photo), I had absolutely no idea…

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    Zadie Smith On Her Generation

    “When a human being becomes a set of data on a website like Facebook, he or she is reduced. Everything shrinks. Individual character. Friendships. Language. Sensibility. In a way it’s a transcendent experience: we lose our bodies, our messy feelings,…

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    What’s Going On At The New York Observer?

    “By our count, nine out of nine of the latest Observer departures were women or gay men. All left in the last three months.” — The Awl wonders what’s going on with the staff at the New York Observer.

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    The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

    Good morning everyone! You know who I missed? Maud Newton. Well she seems to be back! You should go see Maud Newton because, well, Maud Newton is awesome. Speaking of which (the link is from her), this is the self-portrait…

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    The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement

    And a good Sunday to you, too. Come see who we’ve been been reviewing and interviewing this week!

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    Welcome to Sunday

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    Meta: A Rumpus Editor Ponders The Fate of The Rumpus

    I’m not exactly an insider here at The Rumpus. I’m not really an outsider either. I’m the Sunday editor.