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Seth Fischer

Seth Fischer’s writing has twice been listed as notable in The Best American Essays and has been nominated for The Pushcart Prize by several publications, including Guernica. He was the founding Sunday editor at The Rumpus and is the current nonfiction editor at The Nervous Breakdown. He is a Dornsife PhD Fellow at USC and been awarded fellowships and residencies by Ucross, Lambda Literary, Jentel, Ragdale, and elsewhere, and he teaches at the UCLA-Extension Writer’s Program and Antioch University, where he received his MFA.
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    Welcome to Sunday

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    Shame Makes Us Who We Are

    Anyone who has ever been in a creative writing workshop knows the type of shame ordinarily suffered only by lifestyle submissives. And in the new Bookforum, Mark Grief, while reviewing Mark McGurl’s The Program Era, plays with McGurl’s idea that…

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    Can’t Tell Me Nothing

    The Rumpus doesn’t really do Kanye West. It doesn’t hate him and it doesn’t love him. It just doesn’t go there. But when the self-proclaimed “voice of this generation“— in an interview for the release of his book, no less…

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    Truth, Justice, the American Way, and Bondage

    “In 1954, his eyesight failing and work hard to come by, (Superman co-creator Joe Shuster) accepted an invitation to illustrate the lurid stories that were to fill the pages of a magazine called Nights of Horror. Promising its readers “stories spiced…

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    The Rumpus Book Blog Roundup

    Good news! Your humble Rumpus Sunday editor, who was locked inside the Public Storage in North Berkeley for the better part of last night while helping his nine-months-pregnant friend move, has been rescued by the cops! And today, I’m excited…

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    The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement

    Finished with the BEA? Had the best time of your life at You’re Not Alone, the Rumpus, McSweeney’s and SMITHMAG event last night in New York, and not sure how you could ever top the experience?

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    Welcome to Sunday

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    For the love of God, we are not Generation Y

    A little while ago, I got sick of hearing that my generation—which for some God awful reason is called Generation Y—was spoiled, lazy and stupid, all while we were fighting wars (one of which, I seem to remember, we were…

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    This Book Will Self Destruct in 5-4-3…

    “Books ought to be so cheap that we can throw them away if we do not like them, or give them away if we do. Moreover, it is absurd to print every book as if it were fated to last…

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    Hope for the Future Imminent

    According to Cory Doctorow over at Boing Boing, there’s a high school kid running a library of banned books out of her locker. Her school has quite an extensive list of forbidden books, and she’s taken great care to make…

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    The Piano’s Been Drinking Decaf

    I’ve heard lots of wild rumors about the musician Tom Waits over the years. The best one was that his career was an abysmal failure until he was stabbed in the throat in a bar fight, changing his voice —…

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    The Rumpus Book Blog Roundup

    The book blogs are in a tizzy! One second, it doesn’t look good for literature.  The cancer has spread. The postmortem is imminent. But then all of the sudden they are saying everything is fine and pointing us in the…