Seth Fischer

“Old Man Warner snorted. “Pack of crazy fools,” he said. “Listening to the young folks, nothing’s good enough for them. Next thing you know, they’ll be wanting to go back to living in caves, nobody work any more, live hat…

“Whence come those mysterious influences which change our happiness into discouragement, and our self-confidence into diffidence? One might almost say that the air, the invisible air, is full of unknowable Forces, whose mysterious presence we have to endure. I wake…

“It was in the air when she woke in her low-ceilinged, dusky room; it accompanied her down-stairs to the breakfast-table, flashed out at her from the fire, and re-duplicated itself brightly from the flanks of the urn and the sturdy…

“When age fell upon the world, and wonder went out of the minds of men; when grey cities reared to smoky skies tall towers grim and ugly, in whose shadow none might dream of the sun or of Spring’s flowering…

Boo! On the role of editors at Vol. 1 Brooklyn. (via) This guy, the Biblioracle, takes the last five books you read and tells you what to read next. If you’re a nerd about brains you’ll love this. This thing…

Happy Halloween, everybody! Below the fold, links to what Rumpus Books has been up to over the last week.

Here’s some very very short excerpts from very short stories that only take a minute to read. “We figured it was dumb, but you’re allowed to be dumb once, and it’s good to be reminded.” At Smokelong Quarterly, “Hip” by…

“Bookslut is not alone in their sexual allusion. A quick search reveals many ravenous book bloggers out there. Book Strumpet, Book Vixen, Book Whore and less gender specific names like Bookgasm, Book Lust and last but not least a site pandering Book Shelf Porn. For the…

Good morning! I have a feeling today’s gonna be alright. If you didn’t know already, Roxane Gay and GIANT are launching a literary magazine club, which is also pretty alright if you ask me. The Village Voice has named the “Best…