Isaac Fitzgerald

The LA Times has posted a profile about Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott. Of course, as this is the Internet, the story doesn’t end there. Scott Timberg, the author of the profile, has posted an addendum to his piece.

“John Wraith’s penis is a neat literary device. It provides character depth and motivation, and is central to every plot twist in the book.” Max Ross reviews Alistair Morgan’s  Sleeper’s Wake.

Jonathan Lethem talks to the LA Times Book Jacket about his new novel Chronic City in an interview by Carolyn Kellogg. The interview covers the character development of Perkus Tooth, the coffee-addled, pot-head dandy and “cultural curator,” whose “stoned paranoiac…

“The media predicted the death of the book upon the advent of radio, and then again with film, and then again with television. It’s happening once more with the rise of the computer and the Internet. It’s possible that this…

The Nook has become the fastest selling item at Barnes & Noble. “What the hell is social publishing?” (via @R_Nash) Robert Weil talks about editing R. Crumb’s Genesis Illustrated. “Is Book Sharing Really a Threat to Publishing?”

“Looking at these photos, I get the sense that the writers (even the young ones) are long gone, lost to an era when people gazed longingly out of train windows, mailed handwritten letters, or actually read books.  I can’t imagine…