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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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    The Rumpus Sunday Book Review Supplement

    Greetings! I am Seth, the new Sunday Rumpus Editor. My first act ever in this position will be to recap this week’s book reviews, so that you can start your hangover by reading the reviews you missed and re-reading the…

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    Welcome to Sunday

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    The Rumpus Book Blog Roundup

    Sometimes, the Rumpus makes fun of the book blogs, especially when they write about whether William Shatner would beat James T. Kirk in a fight to the death. But this week is different. This week, the blogs are acting like…

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    Malcolm Gladwell and ESPN Banter, Rumpus Gets Smarter

    “My goal in life,” says Malcolm Gladwell in an interview with Bill Simmons on ESPN, “is to get to the place that I can take the same idea and just repackage it over and over again, like Bruce Willis did…

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    The Rumpus Book Blog Roundup

    Good news!  The book blogs can tell the future, and it is only a little bit terrifying! The future, apparently, is full of digibooks, Twitter, book pirates, and “video poetry.” The Rumpus is only slightly afraid, and it promises to…

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    The Rumpus Book Blog Roundup

    Sometimes, reading book blogs can make you feel like you’re watching the paparazzi photograph J-Lo on entertainment television, only J-Lo has gotten ugly, become a man, died, and named herself J.R.R. Tolkien. The Rumpus Book Blog Roundup’s goal is to…

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    The Rumpus Book Blog Roundup

    It’s Wednesday, which means that it’s time for another roundup of things we think you might want to read from book blogs around the Internet. Since last time, the Internet has been abuzz with the idiosyncrasies and failings of canonical…

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    Splinter Generation Event in Echo Park

    If you’re in Echo Park, Los Angeles, this Saturday, May 9th at 7pm, and you want to see the kind of art and music today’s young’uns are making, check out The Splinter Generation Reading, Art and Music Collaboration at Stories…

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    The Rumpus Book Blog Roundup

    Starting this week, the Rumpus will feature roundups where we’ll share links to things we think you would want to read from book blogs around the Internet. Hopefully, it’ll save you some time. If you don’t already read book blogs,…