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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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    Longreads ♥ Sugar

    Congratulations to our own oh-so-lovely Sugar, who’s column “How You Get Unstuck” was today’s Longreads pick thanks to Longreader Logan Sachon.

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    The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

    Which states have the best writers? Hayden’s Ferry Review has an interesting roundup of “unusual calls for submissions.” “John L. Caughey, a cultural anthropologist and American Studies professor, believed that although Mark David Chapman and John Hinkley had turned to…

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    The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement

    Come click through and see what Rumpus Books has been up to this week.

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    More Google, More Problems

    “A striking number of Google+ accounts have been deleted in the last 24 hours as the new social network struggles with its community standards policy around real names…” Over at ZDNet, Violet Blue has a roundup of what looks to…

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    Chandler Meets Fleming

    “Your hero, Philip Marlowe, is a real hero. He behaves in a heroic fashion. My leading character, James Bond, I never intended him to be a hero.” — On the occassion of Raymond Chandler’s birthday, Carolyn Kellogg over at Jacket…

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    The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

    And it’s official: the word hipster finally means absolutely nothing now that it has showed up as a shelving category in a bookstore in the Hamptons. The Supreme Leader in Iran has decided to attack “poisonous” books and likened these…

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    The Rumpus Books Sunday Supplement

    Sunday’s the day to catch up with Rumpus Books.

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    Welcome To Sunday

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    Here Are Some Stories I Like

    Here are links to some very short fiction that made my day better. This week, for some reason, they all have to do with critters. Enjoy! “I was sixteen when I saw my first, standing stock-still and straight upright, like…

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    On Missing War

    “Everyone tells you that you did what you had to do, and I just hate that comment because I didn’t have to do any of it. I didn’t have to join the Army; I didn’t have to become airborne infantry.…

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    Burroughs vs. Capote

    “And these people, Bowles, Tennessee Williams, Capote, are just as square as the St. Louis Country Club set I was raised with, and they sensed I was different and never accepted me as one of them.” — Apparently, William S. Burroughs didn’t…

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    The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup

    This story shows that 80% of the Best American Short Story stories come from the same 42 journals, and over half come from the same 12 journals, and, well, to editorialize a little, that seems a little lazy on the…