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Seth Fischer
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Happy Sunday! I’m in upstate New York at my sister’s college graduation. She’s really smart, like Phi Beta Kappa smart. However, she’s insisting that I play drinking games with her, which I haven’t done for like ten years, so posts…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
What better way to spend a beautiful spring morning than with a mimosa, the sun on your face, and Rumpus Books?
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My salmon day started when I quash squashed through his fornicorium
The Book Bench pointed me in the direction of this phenomenal time waster of a site called Unwords, which is “a dictionary devoted to made-up words.” Thanks a lot, Book Bench. I decided immediately upon finding the word “toilet toupee”…
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Politics Sunday
Politicians and their favorite books. Shocker: American Apparel’s models are not, in fact, random people they picked up off the street. “Monks with Guns” The governor of the Russian republic of Kalmykia was abducted by aliens the other day. “A tall…
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“The post-crisis minority mantra”
“Please don’t let it be a Muslim or Pakistani dude. Please don’t let it be a Muslim or Pakistani dude.” Over at Salon, Wajahat Ali tells us what goes through his head every time terrorism comes to the US and…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Whoops! MacMillian is in trouble with The World Bank for offering bribes to Sudanese officials in exchange for textbook contracts. (via Bookninja) “35 essential posthuman novels.” (via Largehearted Boy) On that note, this is what happens when musicians read sci-fi.…
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The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement
Welcome to Sunday, the day Rumpus Books rounds up all the awesome stuff we published this week. Come take a look for yourself.
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Drinkers Are Smarter, Says Science
In the department of You Can Prove Anything With Science, this statistics-happy chap finds that “the more intelligent, who scored high on a vocabulary test, … drink more than the dumb, who scored low.” (via @electriclit)
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“a very fine poet,” “a very mean man”
“I think of (Pablo Neruda) as a very fine poet, a very fine poet. I don’t admire him as a man, I think of him as a very mean man.” Nigel Beale reminds us that Jorge Luis Borges didn’t like…
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Slipstream? Conceptual Fiction? _______?
“I realized that if I could write a book with a monster in it, I could enjoy writing again.” — From Victor LaValle, in an article at Techland in which Lev Grossman asks what we should call the emerging genre…