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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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    Woman’s Last Stand: Dodge Charger Commercial Spoof

    Hey, horribly offensive Dodge Charger commercial, you’ve been served.

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    Iran News Links

    Iran’s government and its supporters are celebrating the Anniversary of the Iranian Revolution. The Iranian opposition movement is using the holiday to protest the regime. Blood has been spilled. Street Journalist is live blogging from the streets of Iran. Robert…

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    Kierkegaard Available in English

    “In a just world, translators would be paid ten times as much as authors. Their work cannot be other than tedious, their names are soon forgotten, yet one has only to try to imagine what our cultural life would be…

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    Glasses Family

    By artist Jake Gillespie.

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    Tune of the DAY

    Artists: Kidz in the Hall Song: “Jukebox”

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    A Context of “Romantic Relationships.”

    The Poetry foundation has published “an emotionally devastating analysis of five love poems” by Tao Lin in honor of Valentine’s Day.

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    Operation Titstorm

    “Several Australian government websites were slowly recovering Wednesday hours after the online prankster group, Anonymous, unleashed a massive distributed denial-of-service attack to protest the country’s evolution toward internet censorship.” That’s right, “Operation Titstorm” was a success, with the Australian Parliament’s…

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    Gil Scott-Heron’s “Me And The Devil”

    Read Rumpus contributor Steve Almond‘s recent interview with Gil Scott-Heron here.

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    Young Reviewers Competition

    Are you 25 years old or younger? If so, you should enter the London Review of Books‘ Young Reviewers Competition. All you have to do is submit one review, “praising or unpraising, between 2000 and 2500 words long, of any…

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    Dante’s Hell

    A couple of weeks ago we posted a picture of what must be the worst Dante’s Inferno cover of all time (click the link to view the pic). To quote myself: “Not only does the cover image look like it…

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    About Last Night

    Last night we had a blast at the February Monthly Rumpus at The Make-Out Room. But don’t take our word for it. The SF Weekly has published a recap of the evening’s festivities, using such phrases as “strangely wonderful,” “complete…

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    Steve Almond‘s self-published collection of one-page stories and essays, This Won’t Take But a Minute, Honey, is now available for purchase online thanks to Harvard Books.