All posts by Isaac Fitzgerald

May 21st, 2012

A Few Words from Maurice Sendak

“I had a cartoon in my high school newspaper magazine. Terrible, terrible shit.”

A sneak preview of The Comics Journal’s interview with Maurice Sendak.

May 7th, 2012

“Fuck Friday Night Lights

“It’s just very hard when you write something that young and it becomes that successful, for reasons of luck, or having the right timing or the right execution. I was 35, and now, at 57, I hear someone mention that book virtually once a day. It was not the best book I ever wrote.”

Mother Jones talks with Buzz Bissinger, author of Friday Night Lights. (Interview conducted by Rumpus alumnus, and all-around rock star, Maddie Oatman.)

April 6th, 2012

Horn! Reviews

HORN! REVIEWS: <br />WildHORN! REVIEWS:
Wild

Kevin Thomas reviews our March Rumpus Book Club selection, Cheryl Strayed’s WILD, Rumpus-Comics style.

[Sidenote: We believe this is the best review to date of Cheryl's wildly (see what we did there?) successful book. Granted, we're biased, but whose beliefs aren't?]

April 5th, 2012

“That’s where my muse puts her foot down.”

An oldie but a goodie: Nick Cave on why he won’t appear in a Gap commercial.

(via @LettersOfNote)

April 4th, 2012

“Worn Stories”

“It takes me a while to recognize beauty; that’s why, as a writer, I edit so compulsively.”

Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott writes about his backpack (you’ll see).

March 8th, 2012

“The courts were our family’s livelihood…”

“Yet for Wallace, tennis entails intense aloneness, standing seventy-eight feet away from one’s opponent, warring within and against one’s own brain. Tennis represents an entirely individual struggle to wrest control from the mind: to be at once fully conscious of oneself and yet able to stop thinking.”

A Paris Review essay by A-J Aronstein about growing up, tennis, and David Foster Wallace.

March 8th, 2012

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

Oh no! It’s the chimpanzee police!

When I am rich, I too will have a shark-filled atrium.

The Japan Animals’ School.

Who is @MCBangarang?

February 23rd, 2012

Sugar Face

We’ve posted a new Dear Sugar! Hooray!

Today’s column is the first to go live since it was announced that Sugar is, in fact, author Cheryl Strayed. As a celebration we’re revealing the full shot that the usual Sugar photo is cropped from. Yes, those hands holding snow (yes, it’s snow, not sugar) we’re all so familiar with are Cheryl’s.

So here it is, the full photograph (starring Sugar’s sweet, sweet face): …more

February 21st, 2012

DFW

Today is David Foster Wallace’s birthday. He would have been 50 years old.

February 16th, 2012

Stephen Elliott in Berlin

Director and Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott has been spotted (proudly sporting his Rumpus tattoo) alongside actress Ashley Hinshaw in Berlin. Elliott and Hinshaw are both in Germany for the international premier of Cherry. Click here to learn more about the film.

February 14th, 2012

Sugar’s Coming Out Party (SOLD OUT)

We are thrilled to announce (but also sad, if you didn’t get your ticket yet) that tonight’s Sugar Party at the Verdi Club has sold out.

Details on Sugar’s NYC party will be coming soon.

February 10th, 2012

Yesterday

We experienced a few technical difficulties yesterday, but we’re back today and will be updating regularly once again. Thank you all, as always, for reading The Rumpus!

February 9th, 2012

Steve Jobs and the FBI

The FBI has released a 191-page file on Apple founder Steve Jobs. You can learn more, without sifting through the giant file, here.

February 6th, 2012

End of a Scarer

February 2nd, 2012

Kottke ♥

“Just like they did last year, The Rumpus shares some of the stories of the players participating in the Super Bowl in a way that isn’t as syrupy as Bob Costas.”

Over at Internet-powerhouse kottke.org Jason gives some love to J. Ryan Stradal’s “A Super Bowl Preview For People Who Don’t Know Football,” which we ran yesterday. Thanks Jason, we love you back!

Update: If you haven’t checked out the piece yet yourself, we highly recommend you do.

February 2nd, 2012

R.I.P. Wislawa Szymborska

“Wislawa Szymborska, a gentle and reclusive Polish poet who won the 1996 Nobel Prize in Literature, died on Wednesday in Krakow, Poland. She was 88.”

Learn more about Szymborska’s life and achievements here.

February 1st, 2012

Updating the Ol’ Internet Storefront

Well would you look at that, our pals over at McSweeney’s have a snazzy new (online) store.

January 31st, 2012

Daniel Handler Talks Heartbreak in Grand Central Station

January 31st, 2012

It’s a Pretty Great Town

Just saying…

January 26th, 2012

“Where We Missed Was Everywhere”

January 26th, 2012

The Poets Strike Back

On Sunday we published “Ten Reasons Not to Sleep with a Poet,” but today poets are striking back in the comments section (led no doubt by our pals over at The Poetry Foundation) and vocally defending why you should bed a bard.

So, what do you think? Sex with sonnetists, or do you practice abstinence when it comes to odists? Click here to join the fun.

January 24th, 2012

“Grumpy-Ass Magic”

We don’t often do politics, but oh how we love Jay Smooth.

January 19th, 2012

About Cherry

Today we posted stills from Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott’s forthcoming film, Cherry.

Are you curious to learn more about the movie? Click here.

January 10th, 2012

Today’s the Day

“I got this urge to get back to sending paper letters, and I also knew a lot of authors who I knew would be really excited about it.”

The Today Show website gives some love to Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott’s latest artistic proposition, Letters in the Mail. (The article also warns its readers that some of our ads “feature colorful language that might raise a few eyebrows.” Well then, let’s hope they don’t click over to our Sex section.)

January 9th, 2012

Jeff Harris: 4,748 Self-Portraits and Counting

January 6th, 2012

Elliott Talks Letters in the Mail

Well, we’ve just started doing this. Only a couple of the letters are already written. I know Tao Lin is doing his by hand, and illustrating it. Then we’ll photocopy it and send. I think the authors are going to have a lot of fun with the form.”

AdAge talks to our own Stephen Elliott about the Rumpus’s new Letters in the Mail subscription.

December 28th, 2011

Hotdog Hustle

December 27th, 2011

Did You Write a Letter that Sugar Answered?

Can you be in San Francisco on February 14th? Are you willing to discuss your experience in front of an audience? If so, email Sugar AT therumpus.net!

December 26th, 2011

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

Hey folks, we’re going to take it easy this week.

That being said, we’d never leave you all alone. Here are a few things Alec has ollied (we have no idea who Alec is).

December 22nd, 2011

Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee

New York City cops in the 1970s.

How Much More Do Books Cost Today?”

Old dude dancing to contemporary music.

About

Isaac Fitzgerald has been a firefighter, worked on a boat, and been given a sword by a king, thereby accomplishing three out of five of his childhood goals. He has also written for The Bold Italic, McSweeney's, Mother Jones, and The San Francisco Chronicle. He is the managing editor of The Rumpus. Follow him on Twitter.

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