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Seth Fischer

  • The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement

    It’s Sunday again, which means it’s time to catch up with Rumpus Books.

  • Welcome to Sunday

  • “Letters to my editor”

    “To The Editor, Last winter I submitted a story titled Vacation from Hell. Frankly, the length of time it has taken to reply to my submission is an insult. If I had gotten you pregnant back in January, instead of…

  • Burning Warhol’s “Marilyn”

    “I just bought an original, limited-edition Andy Warhol lithograph titled “Marilyn,” plate-signed and pencil-numbered 1293/2400, published by the Carnegie Museum of Art in 1986, when Andy was still alive. I have decided to destroy the print, to burn this piece…

  • The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

    Everything about these quotes GIANT dug up by Klaus Kinsky is amazing. At TMN, this is what happens when you interview someone you busted for plagiarism. Here are lots of reminders that the bestsellers of the past are not always…

  • The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement

    It was yet another awesome week for Rumpus Books. Click through for links to reviews, rants, interviews, and more.

  • Welcome to Sunday

  • Haaretz Lets Novelists Write News, Flotilla Or No Flotilla

    Last year at about this time, the Israeli paper Haaretz let a bunch of literary writers report the news to celebrate Israel’s book week. Well, they’re doing it again, but this time, there’s a flotilla involved. Authors include Margaret Atwood,…

  • The Trouble With Academia

    “I think a lot of literary academics look sort of wistfully out of their office windows and wish their career hadn’t led them so far away from the wider public conversation about books and culture; they publish in dryasdust peer-reviewed…

  • Jonathan Lethem and David Gates Talk Facebook, Internet, The Future

    “I have no idea how to handle this new mode of living (I guess “living” is the word) in fiction. I probably spend more time e-mailing and reading online than I do having non-virtual human contact—and I bet I’m not…

  • The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

    “I feel that for writers, an obsession with what is elegant or what is a cliché or not a cliché can become very inhibiting.” Booker Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro stands up for cliches. (via Bookninja) “Laughs were out, torture porn…

  • The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement

    Porn, Christopher Hitchens, snacking on weaker humans … You name it, Rumpus Books has got it. Our weekly roundup below the fold.