Big Principal Is Watching
I remember when you only had to worry about your locker being searched. In what seems like a scene from his own techno-geek surveillance novel Little Brother (which, as a…
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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 Red Ribbon”
“Artist Donna K. hallucinates a sentence from author Aimee Bender’s ‘The Red Ribbon,'” which appears in Electric Literature No. 3.
Tune of the Day
Artists: MC Lars and K.Flay Song: “Single and Famous” Note: K.Flay will be performing at the next Monthly Rumpus.
Lolita‘s Many Faces
1 book. 164 covers. Artists create amazing Lolita designs. (via @Brainpicker)
Poet Loses Favorite Cafe Table
“‘I wrote three books sitting at the table,’ he said.” Poet Rodrigo Toscano laments the closing of the Greenpoint Coffeehouse in Brooklyn, where he wrote for seven years.
How Often Do You Check It?
Numbers from Nielsen prove what most of us already knew: “Facebook is the web’s ultimate timesink.” That’s right, the average Internet user spends more time on Facebook “than on Google,…
“There is no such thing as bad whiskey…”
“‘The maddening thing about Bill Faulkner,’ recalled Random House founder Bennett Cerf in his memoir At Random, ‘was that he’d go off on one of those benders, which were sometimes…