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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
Editor & Publisher and Kirkus Review are going out of business. Read the internal memo. More info here. Variety erects beta online pay wall. Three top women newspaper editors plan…
What Did You Read in 2009?
Want to know what book Jonathan Lethem really enjoyed this year? How about three books that Nick Flynn liked? Dana Goodyear? Jesse Ball? Well you’re in luck, The Millions has…
Social Rumpus
Are you a fan of The Rumpus on Facebook yet? Click here and join us, you will have no regrets. Or at least not many. Twitter more your thing? Click…
“Does integrity lie in failure?”
“All of Powell’s work is moved along by language: No one else talks to you this way. No one else asks you questions like this. But more brilliant than the…
Random Media Notes
Google, Washington Post and NY Times team up to create new news tool. “Media Companies See Slower Ad Declines.” Random House restructures the Crown Publishing Group. Dan Abrams, founder of…
Rick Moody (and Others) Talk Online Publishing
“Online publication, to me, is of interest because it’s cheaper and easier to produce, thus emboldening people who want to bring their vision out into the marketplace of ideas. But…
My Cousin Bernie
Rumpus contributor Joshuah Bearman and (coincidentally) his cousin Sarah have created a game so fun they just had to share it with the internet. My Cousin Bernie started when “Sarah…