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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

    There’s no day like a rainy Sunday to catch up with Rumpus Books. 

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    Welcome to Sunday

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    Smart Kids Grow Up To Drink More

    So it turns out, according to Psychology Today, that kids with high IQ’s drink more as adults, even controlling for income and education and all that.

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    #StorySunday

    The author Tania Hershman has started something very cool on Twitter, where she asks people to link to stories not by them that they love with the hashtag #StorySunday. See, everytime I start to get really sick of Twitter someone…

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    The Power of Graphic Novels

    “We live in an anxiety about language now, I think, that has created (a) boom, an Age of Euphemism, and I do think there’s something about the comic that can move through the lies and subvert the euphemism in what…

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    Register To Vote

    If you live in California, tomorrow’s the last day to register to vote. You can download the form and print and sign and mail it in here. Or you can pick up a form at a post office, or most…

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    Handwriting Is Important I Guess

    “During one study at Indiana University published this year, researchers invited children to man a “spaceship,” actually an MRI machine using a specialized scan called “functional” MRI that spots neural activity in the brain. The kids were shown letters before…

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    “The World According To San Francisco”

    I think this might be an accurate map, but I can’t remember with all the free pot and cocaine the mayor keeps giving me.

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    The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

    Not exactly a book blog, but what the hell. The PANK Queer Issue is really freakin’ good. MOBYLIVES thinks Amazon is spamming their comment thread with pro-Kindle content. I think they’re right because no one is named Kendall Puddephatt. “So…

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    The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement

    Sunday is Rumpus Books time. Below the fold, reviews, essays and even an interview with our founding editor.

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    Welcome to Sunday

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    Here’s Some Stories I Like

    For your Sunday evening perusal, here’s some very short and very awesome short shorts I liked. I hope you like them too. “That time your mother crashed the car into the Dairy Queen she had dropped her cigarette and was…