An Announcement
On May 1st I will be stepping away from the position of managing editor at The Rumpus. I will remain a co-owner and, of course, a member of The Rumpus’s…
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Isaac Fitzgerald
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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.
Get Out of My Crotch
Cherry Bomb Books (a forthcoming imprint of Bona Fide Books) is seeking writers for a nonfiction collection tentatively titled Get Out of My Crotch, a response to the current legislation…
A “Future of Digital Publishing” Article That We’re Actually Excited About
“It’s an LG-something. It flips. Lately, though, it’s a little sad because the flipping mechanism has gotten very loose so it’s more like a flap-phone. It just dangles out there.”…
Nothing But the Facts
“The fact is, I’m gay, always have been, always will be, and I couldn’t be any more happy, comfortable with myself, and proud.” Anderson Cooper comes out. (Hooray!)
Memorial Day
We’re going to take it easy today, but we’ve still got some great pieces for y’all. Don’t miss “OG Dad #6” from Jerry Stahl, or this heartbreaking illustrated story by…
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.
“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…
Horn! Reviews
HORN! 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…
“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)
“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).
“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…
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?