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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Shutting the thread down was a good idea. Between this and the incident with the faculty sex scandal thread, I’m all for disallowing anonymous comments on the Rumpus. People just think harder before they post when their name is attached. It’s also not the kind of attention the Rumpus wants to receive. In my mind, the Rumpus is about trying to carve out an honest space on the Internet. That’s hard, but the first thing to do is avoid sensationalism. Ebert wasn’t probably intending to, but he effectively called out the cavalry. Meta discussions can get tiresome really quickly, so I don’t want to go on. Nevertheless, I am looking forward to today’s Daily Rumpus to know what Stephen is thinking about this. I think everyone who reads regularly and is fond of this place watched in horror as that thread snowballed.
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