Best Essays Anthology to Feature Rumpus Writers
Awesome news! Megan Stielstra’s Rumpus essay “Channel B” will appear in The Best American Essays 2013, guest edited by our very own Cheryl Strayed (aka Dear Sugar). Seth Fischer’s “Notes from…
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Seth Fischer
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That’s Life
I want to write the world off as brutish and cruel, to go all Gordon Gecko, or maybe Don Draper, to stop worrying about the people around me and start looking out for number one, maybe learn Parkour, or at the very least learn to throw a punch
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“There was one other mythical bi man in the entire city, but try as I might, I never found him. At the gay bar, I sometimes got called a ‘half-breeder.'”…
Here Are Some Stories Seth Likes
Here’s a few very short stories for your Monday morning: “When a door opens and you can’t see who’s coming, it’s almost always a cat that would like to be…
Here Are Some Stories Seth Likes
Here are links to stories I read this week that I liked and I hope you’ll like too. “It’s not that we wouldn’t be able to lay our hands on…
Here Are Some Stories Seth Likes
Every Monday I link to very short fiction I like that I hope you’ll like too: “When we reach the street, the houses are dark, except for one—the grey one…
Here Are Some Stories Seth Likes
It’s Monday morning, so here’s some links to some wonderful very short writing that made my day better and hopefully makes your day better too. Also, in a side note,…
Here Are Some Stories Seth Likes
Here are some excerpts from and links to some very short writing that made my day better and hopefully makes your day better too. “Doesn’t it make you feel like…
Here Are Some Stories Seth Likes
It’s been awhile since I’ve been a-Rumpusing, but I got this email from the talented Ashley Bethard thanking me for including her in an old Here Are Some Stories I…
Craft and Voice
“Cheryl Strayed uses her voice to emotionally connect with her readers, to use craft towards that end and not in spite of it. Which is all just to say that…
It’s Time: The Oakland General Strike Is Here
Well this is going to be something. Oakland’s general strike is today. Organizers are expecting tens of thousands of people. Almost every labor union has endorsed, and students will be…