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Isaac Fitzgerald

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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    Hooray!

    “Author Sam Lipsyte will produce an HBO comedy series called People City.” Exciting news from GalleyCat! Update: You can read last year’s Rumpus interview with Lipsyte, conducted by David Goodwillie, here.

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    Making Amazon Pay Up

    Texan John Raney, owner of Texas Aggieland Bookstore, makes an impassioned plea for the Lone Star State to start collecting sales taxes from Amazon. (via PW)

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    Vovô

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    Deborah Baker

    “Baker not only makes us care about this disturbed woman and her hectoring prose, she has succeeded in composing a mesmerizing book on one of the more curious East-West encounters. She proves once again how a marginal case can be…

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    John Sayles

    Today we interviewed storytelling legend John Sayles. You can read an excerpt from Sayles’ new novel, A Moment In the Sun, here, and check dates for his cross-country road-trip book tour here (he’s in the Bay Area this weekend).

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    Silver Sparrow ♥

    “The most remarkable part of Silver Sparrow is its pacing. The novel moves at a very steady rhythm, Jones’s words on the page carrying the cadences and intonations of a great oral storyteller.” Rumpus Book Club member John Francisconi loves…

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    Gravity Waltz

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    Yuknavitch

    Today Lidia Yuknavitch interviews our beloved advice columnist, Sugar. But don’t miss out on our interview with Lidia (conducted by the Rumpus Book Club), as well as her three fantastic Rumpus essays: “Where I Write #6: Blood Red Desk,” “The…

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    Social Media = Hard Drugs?

    “Last week my wife and I told our 13-year-old daughter she could join Facebook. Within a few hours she had accumulated 171 friends, and I felt a little as if I had passed my child a pipe of crystal meth.”…

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    Legacy

    “The Legacy of Malcolm X” by Ta-Nehisi Coates is one hell of a read. You can read our interview with Coates here.

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    Marc Maron

    Well this is cool: Marc Maron’s WTF podcast “has been picked up for broadcast on public radio.” You can listen to the Rumpus Radio interview with Maron here.

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    First Book

    “When we imagine people without books, we think of villagers in places like Afghanistan. But many families in the United States have no children’s books at home. In some of the poorest areas of the country, it’s hard to find…

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