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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.
Random Media Notes
David Carr counts the media industry’s blessings: “After a Year of Ruin, Some Hope.” The Economist rolls out a social networking plan. Condé Nast was hacked: a large swath of…
The Adderall Diaries vs. Time Out New York
Time Out New York just named Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott’s The Adderall Diaries the best book of the year. Grab a copy from Booksmith.
Random Media Notes
Paris court convicts Google of copyright infringement. Twitter hacked by pro-Iranian group. Does the HuffPo strategy work? Journalist deaths hit record in 2009. Why is TV viewership still rising?
Single Sentence Animation: Lydia Davis’s “The Cows”
Artist Donna K. riffs off a sentence from author Lydia Davis’s “The Cows,” featured in Electric Literature No. 2.
How To Write Memoir
This Friday, in Brooklyn, Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott is giving a lecture on using your life in your writing, using examples from The Adderall Diaries. He’ll talk about writing about…
eBook Rights
“After noting that most of Random House’s backlist titles grant the publisher electronic book rights […], [CEO Markus Dohle] writes that ‘there have been some misunderstandings concerning ebook rights in…