Seth Fischer

“Jokes about vegans, Tyler Perry or the Gipsy Kings end up being way more volatile than jokes about race, slavery or the Holocaust. Whiteness and Palestine are guaranteed to make folks uncomfortable. ” — Steve Almond interviews Nato Green over…

“There has been a dream in literary circles since the late 19th century of wrestling control of publishing from New York. It’s happening.” Tom Lutz of the new LA Review of Books is interviewed on the decentralization of the publishing…

“If there were no such thing as fiction, we’d have had to invent it, if we ever wanted to make sense out of a thing like the Vietnam War.” It would take 53 years to spend one day telling the story…

Whether you’re boiling to death in the west and center or hunkered down under battened hatches back east, I can’t think of a better time to sit inside and catch up with Rumpus Books.

Brooklyn’s story from the writers who have defined it. (via Mark Athitakis) Bookslut points to this article on neuroscience, or “how the cerebral cortex has become a 21st-century version of Warhol’s soup cans or Marilyn Monroes.” A reading of Oral…

It’s Sunday again, always the best day to catch up with Rumpus Books.

“For a long time we’ve been talking about the benefits of reading with respect to vocabulary, literacy, and these such things. We’re now beginning to see that there’s a much broader impact.” — Keith Oatley, a scientist at The University…

At Full Stop, how much do interns in the publishing industry earn? Mark Athitakis points to this fascinating article at Big Other about the difference between the novel and the short story. Emma Darwin (Charles’ wife) apparently took issue with…

It’s a lazy, August Sunday, which is the perfect time to catch up with Rumpus Books, preferably in a hammock.