The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
There’s no day like a rainy Sunday to catch up with Rumpus Books.
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Seth Fischer
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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.
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.
#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,…
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…
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…
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…
“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.
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…
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Sunday is Rumpus Books time. Below the fold, reviews, essays and even an interview with our founding editor.
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…