Internal: New Rumpus Comic
The Rumpus Comics section has a new member; please welcome Lucas Adams and his comic, The Bins.
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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.
The Book of Andrew
“For all its political relevance, though, what I love most about The Book of Daniel is the writing, Doctorow’s high-wire act of structural contortion, his ventriloquism, and the slippery point…
ORBooks Walk Away From Amazon
“For every e-mail we get querying why our books are not available on Amazon, we get another saying how much our new approach is appreciated.” ORBooks has pulled its publications…
Photos of McQueen
While we’re not big on celebrity here at the Rumpus, we did link to these previously unpublished photos of Marilyn Monroe when LIFE made them public this past summer. So…
Words After Death
“I am against the posthumous publishing of a late author’s work unless it can be proven without a doubt that posthumous publication is the express wish of the author. If…
“Another of those long and agonising breakdowns.”
“For some days, of course, we hoped against hope that she had wandered crazily away and might be discovered in a barn or a village shop. But by now all…
Is Google Just the Beginning?
“A new survey by the American Chamber of Commerce in China says that a growing number of U.S. companies feel unwelcome in China—thirty-eight per cent, up from twenty-three per cent…
Google Pulls Out of China
“Earlier today we stopped censoring our search services—Google Search, Google News, and Google Images—on Google.cn. Users visiting Google.cn are now being redirected to Google.com.hk, where we are offering uncensored search…