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Seth Fischer

  • Welcome to Sunday

  • The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

    I think I have the plague. I can’t stop coughing. Everything hurts. Don’t come near me. This is just my way of saying this might be all you get from me today. Carolyn Kellogg writes up the Book Expo in…

  • The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement

    Did you know that due to the miracle of the Internet, writing something with “supplement” in the title every week has made The Rumpus a part of quite a few blogs about vitamins? It’s because Rumpus books is good for…

  • Welcome to Sunday

  • Mark Twain on Mark Twain

    “The creator of Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and some of the most frequently misquoted catchphrases in the English language left behind 5,000 unedited pages of memoirs when he died in 1910, together with handwritten notes saying that he did not…

  • Politics Sunday

    Nick Spicer asks if BP might have something in common with Captain Ahab. Apparently, there was a time  when presidents weren’t all rich guys. How an online community saved two Russian women from falling prey to sex traffickers. Did you…

  • When Should We Publish Horrific Images?

    “The point of publishing horrific images is to anger, sadden, appall, help us mourn, teach us about the world, and make us feel compelled to act.” — Ruthie Ackerman discusses her decision to post photographs, with a disclaimer, of the…

  • The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

    “There were seven references to Sidney Peterson and his experimental 1947 film The Cage in David Foster Wallace’s novel Infinite Jest.” Alan over at Dennis Cooper’s blog shares what he found out about the movie. This is what happens when…

  • The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement

    Hey, if you haven’t had the chance to take a look at all the stuff Rumpus Books has been up to lately, you should probably do that now. 

  • Welcome to Sunday

  • Politics Sunday

    “All of the prostitutes are against the reopening of the brothels.” The French sex workers’ union takes a surprising stance. (Well, maybe not that surprising if you think about it.) (via TMN) Now Arizona is going to start targeting illegal immigrant…

  • What Should The New Novel Look Like?

    “Man is here, the world is there and the distance between the two lies at the heart of the new novel project.” — Andrew Gallix at The Guardian Book Blog reminds us to look at the work of the literary…