Seth Fischer
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Before I say anything about book blog land today, I want to thank Brian Spears, our Poetry and Saturday Editor here at The Rumpus, for putting together some of the best information on Haiti I’ve been able to find anywhere.…
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I Love Your Lies
Back in 1999, when I was a freshman in college, a friend of mine told me about a new movie he’d just downloaded on his computer that featured a bunch of students, armed with video cameras, who’d been hunted down…
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Politics Sunday
It’s Sunday, so as always, the Rumpus has links to political stories that aim to do more than make you angry at people you already disagree with. At Guernica, “Where do architectural wonders, coat hanger abortions, virtual slave labor, and…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
The books blogs always like to talk about the future, but this week was like some sort of official book blog crystal ball week, what with this new decade they tell me we’re in now and everything. We’ve already linked…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
Greetings, Rumpusers. You might have been relieved to see me go for a bit, but you had to know you couldn’t get rid of me forever. I’m back from a life-alteringly excellent trip to Los Angeles, where I finished school,…
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Sunday Political Links
Hi all, I’ll be out the next few weeks to finish up school, but I’ll return in the New Year. In the meantime, Michael Berger will be taking over for me on Sundays. He’s a good guy, that Michael Berger.…
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Ceasefire Liberia And The Promise of the Internet
Going through the book blogs every week, I read a lot about how the Internet is ruining everything — from publishing to our attention spans to investigative journalism to our social lives. But every once in a while, I hear…
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The Rumpus Sunday Book Blog Roundup
The book blogs had a great week — here’s some of what they have to say: This is very cool. Check out The Underground Library, a community in which “books are given out to Members of the Library, who are…
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Secret Treaty Is Very, Very Scary
Boing Boing, the EFF and Michael Geist are reporting that a secret treaty that could determine the future of file sharing is being negotiated without any input from the public at an international conference in Seoul. The treaty, called the…