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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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    Junot Díaz

    “Stories are hard. I have friends who knock out stories on a weekly or monthly basis, like they’re running on medicinal-strength Updike. But for me a story is as daunting a prospect as a novel.” The Book Bench talks with…

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    This Little Poem

    Tin House has posted a poem by Matthew Zapruder: “This Little Game.” Enjoy.

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    Tune of the Day

    Artists: Kisses Song: “Bermuda”

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    Bunnies.

    Kyle Kinane.

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    Single Sentence Animation

    Artist Vance Reeser animates a sentence from Matt Sumell’s short story “Little Things,” available in Electric Literature No.3.

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    “I’d much rather be 49 than 20.”

    “The reason I’m still around through all this is persistence. And the fact that I’ve always gone for myself, in that I’ve never hooked onto a trend, it was just me doing me.” Henry Rollins talks Henry Rollins.

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    Palahniuk

    Are you a Chuck Palahniuk fan? Do you live in the Bay Area? Tickets to his event at The Booksmith in San Francisco just went on sale.

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    Jennifer Gilmore

    “It’s actually quite frightening to be an author and know the business side of publishing. I imagine it’s easier to be in Iowa and not know what’s going on with your book. If the industry had stayed the same, I…

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    Getting Published

    “What I’d like to ask you is if you have any reading suggestions for finding out about the ins and outs of book and magazine publishing.” The Millions answers with a list of resources to get started in publishing, but…

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    Tune of the Day

    Artists: Foals Song: “Spanish Sahara”

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    Call Bear

    “I’m 47 years old, I’m a good 30 pounds overweight, and I make my living by taking care of men who come to Las Vegas hoping for some skin time with other men — for a fee. And in case…

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    Found in Translation

    The Confessions of Noa Weber by Gail Hareven, translated from the Hebrew by Dalya Bilu, has won the 2010 Best Translated Book Award for Fiction.