Here’s Some Essays I Like
It’s that time again: here’s some very short nonfiction that’ll only take a minute to read but that will make you feel something. “Connie was albino, exceptionally white even by…
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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.
Introducing Crud Wizard
“My favorite band is Iron Maiden and I hate Reagan, and hippies, and Jesus.” Via Westword, I came across Crud Wizard, a nine year-old’s metal blog. His dad is helping…
Color Russian Photos from 100 Years Ago
I don’t usually take single photographic links and make one post out of them, but sometimes something is so freakin’ cool… From 1909 to 1912, the Russian photographer Sergei Mikhailovich…
They Want To Ruin Our Children
“But there’s a more pressing issue at hand: after little Joshua—the story’s grinning, crapping hero—learns where to drop his bombs, he does not once wear pants.” — At The Millions, Jacob…
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Maybe you can’t judge a book by it’s cover, but you can refuse to sell it if it features Alexander the Great’s butt. Ron Charles wants to tell you about how…
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
It’d be a good idea to click on where it says “…more.” Rumpus Books kind of kicked ass this week.
The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Hello there, world. Had a crap week, and now the man is making me work on the Lord’s day, so I’ll see you all next Sunday! —Seth Google, “locavore” movement…
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Below the fold, come see what Rumpus Books has been up to this week.
Anything You Record Can And Will Be Used Against You
Q: What happens when you videotape yourself getting a speeding ticket, especially from an unmarked cop who looks like Pee Wee Herman, wields a gun and doesn’t immediately identify himself?…
The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Sunday is your day to see what Rumpus books was up to this week. It’s been up to a lot. A review of Dead Ahead, a poetry collection by Ben…
Greil Marcus on Biography, Memoir, And Art
“To trace anybody’s work, what they produce, what they put into the world, what you or I respond to, to somebody’s life, their biography, is utterly reductionist. Some people are very…