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Seth Fischer
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
As you read this, I’m staying in a isolated haunted hotel in the middle of a redwood forest with no Internet and no phone—what could go wrong?—so things might be slow today. Also, I’m writing this from the past (Thursday),…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
It’s Sunday, so you might want to come see if you missed anything from Rumpus Books this week. Our mascot Rumpy gets sad when you don’t.
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Seth’s Sunday Short Shorts
Fear not: there are no pictures of me in daisy dukes below. It’s just that I’ve had a couple posts that listed some fun and weird and awesome very short stories and essays, and people seemed to enjoy them. So…
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Aw Shucks
“Interestingly, I’ve found The Rumpus a lot more compelling lately than the New York Times. I oscillate between really worrying about old, venerable print pubs and feeling like I don’t want to be part of attacking them and making them…
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How To Give a F$@#
Some days everything goes wrong. Like today, when I called the NYTBR the NYTRB on Twitter, or when I linked to the wrong thing on the book blog roundup, or when I almost ran over a San Francisco marathon runner…
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How Old Is The Novel?
“At university in the early 1970s, I was led to believe the novel originated in England in the 18th century, and no professor told me otherwise as I pursued my PhD in the 1980s. Sometimes Daniel Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe was…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
A judge decides that Kafka’s safe deposit box, which contains an unpublished short story, will be released instead of destroyed, as was stated in his will. “Some things you just shouldn’t put in your head.” At The Morning News, one…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
There’s been a lot of new people here lately, so if you’re new to the Rumpus (or if you’re not), Sunday’s the day where you can catch up with what Rumpus Books has been up to this week.
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“Writers are not the enemy”
“Here’s the thing though–whatever your experience with the slushpile, it is not the enemy. Writers are not the enemy. They can be frustrating but we should not be fighting them or trying to keep them away like some kind of…
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Here’s Some Essays I Like
A couple weeks ago, I linked to a bunch of very short stories — stories that were superbly written but that only took a few moments to read. People seemed to like that, so today, I’m doing the same thing…
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Gary Shteyngart Hearts Technology
“And, increasingly, irrevocably, I am a stranger to books, to the long-form text, to the pleasures of leaving myself and inhabiting the free-floating consciousness of another. With each passing year, scientists estimate that I lose between 6 and 8 percent…