Look at How Much Fun We’re Having
The Creosote Journal has posted a write up of last Monday’s Rumpus in San Francisco (beautiful photos included).
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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.
Kerouac in Florida
“Florida? Jack Kerouac lived in Florida?” For less than one year Kerouac crashed with his mother in Orlando, where he, in an “intense stretch not all that different from the…
So You Want to Write a Children’s Book
“An Open Letter to Everyone Who Thinks it Must Be Easy, Writing Kid’s Books,” by Adam Rex. (via @lisabrowndraws)
Calling All Steinbecks
“Three years into the Great Depression Steinbeck had already written Of Mice and Men, a tale of migrant farm workers, and had started on The Grapes of Wrath.” In these…
Long Live the Essay
Lucasta Miller praises “the elastic glory of the essay” and the form’s (arguable) father, Michel Eyquem de Montaigne.
Black Lung Books
“Three advocacy groups have started a letter-writing campaign asking Scholastic Inc. to stop distributing the fourth-grade curriculum materials that the American Coal Foundation paid the company to develop.” It’s always…
Suing Google
“French publishers Albin Michel, Flammarion and Gallimard are suing Google for having scanned 9,797 books without prior permission…” Another lawsuit has been launched against the Google Book Search program. (via…
Missing Chicago
Katie Gillett’s Post-Grad Hipster’s Guide to Inhabitable U.S. Cities didn’t include Chi-Town and the good folks at Chicagoist have taken notice.
Remembering DFW’s KCS
“On a hot Ohio morning, Wallace described for the Kenyon grads the day-in-day-out difficulties of grown-up American life.” Over at The Millions “Kenyon Grads Remember David Foster Wallace’s Commencement Speech.”