“Eugene ‘I Promise Not to Get into the Drug Scene’ Oregon”
Rumpus readers are having a good time adding cities to Katie Gillett’s Post-Grad Hipster’s Guide to Inhabitable U.S. Cities map. Why not join in the fun?
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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.
Think Before You Ask
“So when’s your next book coming out?” and other questions you should never ask at a bookstore reading. (via @The_Millions)
Rob Kimmel
“The Rumpus is literary without being pretentious, perverse without being degrading, serious without ever being boring. And I’m always happy to create illustrations for their paper-less pages.” Rob Kimmel, whose…
Robert Loomis
“Things were smaller. They were simpler. The money was not as great. But it seems as though it was more fun.” Robert Loomis, who “began working at Random House 54…
The Case of the Closing Bookstores
The San Francisco Mystery Book Store is closing its doors, making it the city’s “second independent bookseller to announce its closure in as many months.”
Toys with a Message
Dorothy, “a collective of like-minded people working on unlike-minded ideas,” has created a project, titled “Casualties of War,” which features green army men figurines showing symptoms of PTSD. (via MeFi)
We Don’t Do Food
We don’t write much about food here at The Rumpus, but we can now say McSweeney’s does. Meet Lucky Peach.
Killer Stats
Famous baseball statistician Bill James, who “played a prominent role in the Michael Lewis best-seller Moneyball,” is now aiming his science at serial killers.
Books Behind Bars
“The American Civil Liberties Union on Wednesday asked a judge to block a South Carolina jail’s rules over what items inmates may receive while the group challenges a policy barring…
Harold Bloom
“I don’t see any point to literary criticism or literary editing unless it’s as personal as poetry, or some varieties of the novel, the story or drama. Literary criticism is…