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Seth Fischer
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Sunday Political Links
Hi all, I’ll be out the next few weeks to finish up school, but I’ll return in the New Year. In the meantime, Michael Berger will be taking over for me on Sundays. He’s a good guy, that Michael Berger.…
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Terese Svoboda Talks to Heartsrevolution
I recently came across The Largehearted Boy Cross-Media Exchange Program, a forum for musicians and authors to speak to each other. Aside from being an awesome project in its own right, I came across the following exchange between Terese Svoboda…
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What Happens When Literary Journals Report The News?
With newspapers folding and cutting corners all around the country, it’s easy to give up entirely on the fourth estate. But now look who’s riding in on their white horse: those writers you newspaper types wouldn’t give jobs to before…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
This week, Rumpus books reviewed a novel, a short story collection, and a graphic novel. We also featured interviews with Eileen Myles and McSweeney’s publisher Oscar Villalon. Come catch up.
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
I was out last week on vacation, but I’m back. And there’s a lot to catch up on. Here goes … In Turkey, you can go to jail for using the letters Q, W and X. (via) Even Bill and…
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Sunday Political Links
People seemed to like the political links last week, so here are some more. Enjoy! If you are an evil person, becoming a lawyer for a military contractor is a great career move. How Louis Armstrong fought anti-Semitism (via) A…
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Tobias Wolff On Short Stories
“(T)he only real people left who write short stories now are people who write literary short stories, if you will. And they are a little more demanding than the average novel; they don’t tend to have neat tied-up endings, which…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Good morning! I’m up against a pretty nasty deadline, so blogging might be a bit light today. In the meantime, here’s some links for you from the book blogs. What is the state of reading among the armed forces in…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement
This week, Rumpus Books reviewed a novel by Stephen Fink, a collection of short stories by Bonnie Joe Campbell, and a book of nonfiction by Ethan Brown.
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Ceasefire Liberia And The Promise of the Internet
Going through the book blogs every week, I read a lot about how the Internet is ruining everything — from publishing to our attention spans to investigative journalism to our social lives. But every once in a while, I hear…