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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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    Health Care Help

    Wondering how health care reform affects you? This helps.

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    “Amusements of an Historical & Macabre Nature”

    “Adele Griffin & Lisa Brown accept with Pleasure your very Kind & Gracious presence on our Site. Please enjoy the following Amusements of an Historical & Macabre nature. Refreshments will be served.” There are book websites and then there are…

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    Fistfight Friday

    Nicholas Sparks, author of such books as The Notebook and A Walk to Remember, was recently profiled by USA Today. Why do we know this? Because the article has author and Rumpus contributor Joshua Mohr in a bit of a…

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    Not at SXSW?

    While a lot of sites are covering the music, tech, film, and other happenings in Austin this week, only Larry Smith and Rachel Fershleiser of SMITHmag.net are capturing the essence of how many amazing t-shirts there are in Texas right…

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    DoD vs. WikiLeaks

    WikiLeaks, “the Internet service that offers whistleblowers an opportunity to publish documents that expose corruption and wrongdoing by state and private actors,” has drawn the ire of many corporations in the past, not to mention “North Korea, China, Zimbabwe, and…

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    Crime Lit

    “The best crime fiction today is actually talking to us about the same things big literary novels are talking about. They are talking about moral questions, taking ordinary people and putting them in extraordinary situations, and saying to the reader,…

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    Lightbulbs to Moons

    “As lightbulbs are to the moon, first stories are to finished books.” The Morning News talks with author Philip Graham about publishing his first short story, writing dispatches for McSweeney’s, and being edited by a former student.

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    “Some rats are going, most rats are staying.”

    Over at The Awl Choire Sicha talks with Paul Ford, the now-former web editor of Harper’s, about why he quit, what’s going on at the magazine (“Jennifer Szalai, a senior editor, who handled reviews, also quit this week”), his plans…

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    Mark Twain at Stormfield, 1909

    Footage shot by Thomas Edison. (via @ebertchicago)

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    Tune of the Day, R.I.P. Alex Edition

    Artists: Big Star Song: “The Ballad of El Goodo” R.I.P. Alex Chilton.

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    Amazon Continues the eBook Fight

    “Amazon.com has threatened to stop directly selling the books of some publishers online unless they agree to a detailed list of concessions regarding the sale of electronic books, according to two industry executives with direct knowledge of the discussions.” The…

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    “We are seeing renewed interest in the short story.”

    Well here’s some good news for all you short fiction writers: “The Atlantic is going to start publishing fiction again.”