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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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    Writing In The Buff

    When Victor Hugo had writer’s block, “he had his servant take all of his clothes away for the day and leave his own nude self with only pen and paper, so he’d have nothing to do but sit down and…

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    Robot Reporters and Automated Anchors

    Hey, here’s something terrifying: To fill the void of the massive layoffs that have hit journalism, it appears that news outlets may be looking more and more to computers and even artificial intelligence to fill the void. Among the things…

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    Ted Hughes On Sylvia Plath

    “And I’d started to write when the telephone jerked awake, in a jabbering alarm, remembering everything.” — A lost Ted Hughes poem has been found, written on the topic of his wife Sylvia Plath’s death. (via)

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    The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

    Hi everyone! Thought for the day: love is listening to your girlfriend laugh while she beats your stepdad at Hearts. And now, book blogs! “When I’m feeling stimulated, I like to read fiction, and when my life feels sterile, I…

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    The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement

    Holy crap Rumpus Books has a lot for you to read this week.

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    Welcome to Sunday

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    Here’s Some Essays I Like

    Here’s some very short essays that only take a moment to read and that made me feel something. Hopefully they’ll do the same for you. I got a brief excerpt of each one below. Click on the link for the…

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    TBI And The Wars

    “Since 2000, traumatic brain injury, or TBI, has been diagnosed in about 180,000 service members, the Pentagon says. But some advocates for patients say hundreds, if not thousands, more have suffered undiagnosed brain injuries. A Rand study in 2008 estimated…

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    And Other Stories

    The Guardian points to this very cool publishing venture in Britain called And Other Stories that publishes books in translation, taking the decision-making power over what is translated out of the hands of sales reps and putting it in the…

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    How To Start A Novel

    “”I don’t know very much,” (Roth) says about how he begins a novel. “I write my way into my knowledge. Then, if I’m lucky, I get a break. That’s why it’s so important to get started. Because however awful starting…

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    The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

    Good morning, everybody. I have a feeling it’s going to be a good day. Here’s some thoughts from the Literary Saloon on who’s gonna win the Nobel in literature this year. (the prize will be announced October 7th) (via @electriclit)…

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    The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement

    I know I keep saying this, but it keeps being true. This week was one of the best weeks yet for Rumpus Books.