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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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    “Least of All for Profit”

    “I feel that this award was not made to me as a man, but to my work — a life’s work in the agony and sweat of the human spirit, not for glory and least of all for profit, but…

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    Paper Fight

    We’ve previously mentioned the fascinating battle taking place in San Francisco between the city’s two weekly newspapers: The San Francisco Bay Guardian (who won a $21 million dollar judgment against Village Voice Media for monopolistic practices) and the VVM-owned SF…

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    Tune of the Day

    Artists: Hawk and Dove Song: “Gray Parade”

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    Reviewing the Reviews

    “Why do Tao’s negative book reviews seem to always cite as evidence Tao’s gimmickry?” Brandon Scott Gorrell, author of During My Nervous Breakdown I Want to Have a Biographer Present, has posted a review concerning negative reviews of Tao Lin‘s…

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    “Good” May Not Be Good Enough

    “The recent recession hit the book industry just like it did every other business, and even though we’re emerging from the chasm, book sales haven’t completely recovered, so publishers are being much more careful than they were a few years…

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    Happy St. Patrick’s Day

    Don’t miss today’s holiday Rumpus comic from Space Avalanche.

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    Google.cn Update

    So Google still hasn’t pulled out of China. But today the company unblocked previously censored sites: “Web sites dealing with subjects such as the Tiananmen Square democracy protests, Tibet and regional independence movements could all be accessed through Google’s Chinese…

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    Life Graphs

    HTMLGiant asks an important question: does your life suck (normal life) or blow (successful writer’s life)?

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    More Jake Gillespie

    Have you read The Rumpus Interview with Jake Gillespie yet? Once you do, click here to view more of his work.

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    Tune of the Day

    Artists: Holy Fuck Song: “Latin America” (Live)

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    Social Media Bust

    So when is that new facebook friend not really a friend? When they’re a law enforcement agent using your online info against you. Whether checking an alibi against status updates or looking at photos for signs of suspicious activity, the…

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    This eBook Belongs To…?

    “Think of a bookplate as a wedding ring binding the reader to the book, and vice versa. The symbolism isn’t so far apart: ownership, possession, desire. […] The digital book has no front or back covers; there is no place…