Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and was once given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. Formerly of The Rumpus and McSweeney’s and most recently the founding editor of BuzzFeed Books, Isaac is now the co-host of BuzzFeed News’ Twitter Morning Show, #AMtoDM. He also appears frequently on
The Today Show to talk books, and is co-author of
Pen & Ink: Tattoos and the Stories Behind Them and
Knives & Ink: Chefs and the Stories Behind Their Tattoos (with Recipes) (winner of an IACP award), and the author of a YA novel and picture book forthcoming from Bloomsbury. He uses
Twitter.
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ooh excellent find
not innocuous
Got this from Don Share, so the hat-tip goes to him.
Reposting my original comments re the clip from Isaac’s Facebook page:
What I LOVE about this clip is how articulately DFW describes the experience of being in Italy and not speaking the language. Giving language the slip — or having been given the slip by language — seems to have helped him become “unmarooned,” more connected to the people around him (in some ways). No doubt I am reading in, though I think there is also some truth to this. He also seems just plain happy, almost carefree, and I love that.
Headlines: smiles, arms thrown open, winging it….
The failure bit was but a footnote.
What’s not innocuous, Evan? Confused and curious …
Also someone, Isaac, Elissa? should get an extra special hat-tip for mining Facebook posts. I didn’t send this to the Rumpus — they fished. Well done, Rumpus!
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