“Age 21: Small Fires”
“I write a creative senior thesis, five short stories. I name it Small Fires. There’s a collection of poetry by Raymond Carver called Fires. These are smaller ones, I guess.”…
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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.
Pitchfork Responds
Meaghan O’Connell, Director of Outreach at Tumblr, has posted her response to a user’s accusation (plus an exclusive response to Tumblr users here on The Rumpus) that Tumblr “stole” their…
Stolen Site?
“I’ve run pitchfork.tumblr.com for almost a year now. I had several posts up and I followed 28 people with the account. All my posts are now gone and my address…
“This is not a decision we made lightly.”
“Oh, hey Canada. Yeah, come on in. Have a seat. No, you won’t need to take notes or anything. This is really pretty straightforward. Here’s the thing, Canada – we’re…
What Tao Is Reading
Tao Lin hast posted his reading diary, including only books he has “finished or anticipate[s] finishing.” The list includes Raymond Carver: A Writer’s Life, Baby Hedgehogs and American Apparel Dog,…
“We Got Lost for a While”
“[The Ticking is the Bomb] pushes readers to acknowledge, if not meditate on, the urges lurking inside us, those we tamp down in order to continue, to resist the impulses…
“Feeling Like I Was Getting Somewhere.”
“My own path into writing songs comes directly through literature. When I was a kid, I wanted to be a capital-A author, and I wrote short stories on an old…
Mo Money Mo Problems
“Money is counterproductive – it prevents happiness to come.” Karl Rabeder is a millionaire, but “he is giving away every penny of his £3 million fortune” because he is unsatisfied…