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Seth Fischer
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Saving Libraries Without A Shirt
“I’m handsome.” “Let’s eat peanut butter.” “Stop throwing pigeons.” “All of these simple statements and requests would never be possible to communicate if it wasn’t for the words stored in books that are available for free, en masse, at libraries.”…
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Work In Progress
As a reader, I love this. As a writer, I am terrified. Via the always excellent Carolyn Kellogg at Jacket Copy, Farrar, Straus and Giroux is creating a new web site, FSG Work In Progress, that presents conversations with authors…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
See, this is why I love The Rumpus. I ask you all to send me some of your favorite book blogs, and I get to read loads of fascinating stuff I never would have seen otherwise. Here’s some highlights. Keep…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
You can call Rumpus Books a lot of things, but after this week, you can never call it lazy.
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“An Elegy to Oscar Grant”
“I wanted to write an intelligent & coherent critique of the #OscarGrant verdict but I couldn’t. The logic wasn’t in my heart; just the poem.” “The poem I just posted on my blog is made entirely of links to other…
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Mullets Illegal in Iran
According to the Iranian Ministry of Culture and Islamic Guidance, mullets are now illegal. And that’s not it: pony tails, spiky hair, and long hair in general—on men at least—have been deemed “decadent western hairstyles.” But as much as many…
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“The Slavoj Zizek Show”
“Take my friend Peter, for example, fucking Sloterdijk. I like him a lot, but he’ll obviously have to be sent to the gulag. He’ll be in a slightly better position there. Perhaps he could work as a cook.” In Der…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
“How to write sci-fi erotica: Imagine what Mary Shelley would write after fucking Pris from Blade Runner.” At PANK, Kirsty Logan wants to tell you how to write genre. What are the scariest books you know of? “One hit literary wonders”…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
One awesome thing about Rumpus Books is that we’ve got tons of original author interviews and book reviews and other miscellany we publish each week. One awesome thing about Sundays is that we put it all in one place for…
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The Monday Rumpus Book Blog Roundup
Hello, world. Today, on the 5th of July, 2010, I have to go hock things to tourists so I can pay the bills, so this might be all you get from me today. A great essay on the omniscient over…