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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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    A Book About Aboutness

    “So: End Zone isn’t really a book about football or a book about warfare or a book about football as metaphor for warfare. It isn’t even a book about the cliché of football as metaphor for warfare. It’s a book…

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    Hey, Design Junkies

    Check it out: a detailed look at last year’s New York Times Magazine redesign with Design Director Arem Duplessis. (via @brilliantism)

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    “Horses Aren’t Extinct”

    “I don’t think paper has hit bottom by any means, but I also don’t think it will be a quick or simple fall. There will be bumps and twists and surprises on the road down. Print on paper will never…

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    “True to my heart and true to art.”

    “But here now was Patti Smith: a gangly, atonal, and androgynous punk poet wailing about her lack of faith in Jesus, and boys humping parking meters. Patti turned my Top 40 brain inside out. Gave it a sex change. A…

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    A Big Step in France

    “France has become the first country in the world to remove gender identity disorder, also known as transsexualism, from its list of officially recognized mental illnesses.” While the issue is certainly complicated, this is incredible news.

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    Gilliam Hearts Bulgakov

    “Why do I keep running away from Mikhail Bulgakov? I’ve been on the run for years now. From the first time I was encouraged to read The Master and Margarita, I have been pursued by keen film producers trying to…

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    Tune of the Day

    Artists: Beach House Song: “The Arrangement”

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    Rise and Fall of the Nazi Dinosaurs

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    A Glitch?

    A spokesman for Wenner Media has told the New York Times that the RollingStone.com outage we reported on earlier today was just “a glitch.” The spokesman did not explain how the “technical problem” resulted in a mysterious ad replacing the…

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    RollingStone.com?

    What is going on at RollingStone.com? The magazine’s website seems to have been taken over by a very lame ad. Has the magazine lost their domain name? (via @MacMcClelland) Update: Looks like RollingStone.com is back up (to view a screenshot…

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    Laughing:Weather:Maps

    By Jake Gillespie.

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    Real Talk

    Should memoirs be reviewed – or is any criticism of personal writing by definition ad hominem? There is an intense conversation taking place over in the comments section of our recent review of Kathleen Rooney’s For You, For You I…