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Isaac Fitzgerald

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.
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    East Coast Cats and Christopher Street Boys

    Jay Smooth.

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    Morning Coffee

    50 years of beautiful space exploration (be sure to view the large image). Top 5 MFA rankings, rearranged. Just in time for Halloween, My Zombie Pinup: “Where Beauty Eats Brains.” (via Laughing Squid) Want a peek inside the weird world…

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    All the Water

    “Absent characters often hover around the edges of these stories. Children long for dead parents; husbands deceased, divorced, or ignored wander in and out of thoughts. Creatures both real and imagined haunt people who fear or pursue them.” Anya Yurchyshyn…

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    Annals of Advertising: Jeans in “America”

    Yes, that is from a Walt Whitman poem; and apparently Walt thinks you need some new jeans. More from the Annals of Advertising.

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    Tune of the Day

    Artists: Weezer [ft. Lil Wayne] (Seriously.) Song: “Can’t Stop Partying”

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    Health Care Links

    Reversal: Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid pushes for a public option, but one that comes with an escape hatch. Leadership, progressives, and advocacy groups get behind the opt-out plan after Reid backs it. Senator Olympia Snowe, the only Republican to…

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    Things to Think About: Publishing Links

    A new distribution model: give the book away for free. Powell’s weighs in on the Book Pricing Wars (via Publishers Weekly) “Authors Experiment with Twitterfiction” Will the Apple Tablet kill the Kindle? “Framing the Issue: Copyright from John Adams to…

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    Random Media Notes

    This has been a season of false starts for news organizations. “Newspapers Across the Country Show Steep Declines in Circulation” Redesigned CNN.com: More Opinion, Entertainment and Oprah “Newspaper sites are the patent-leather stilettos of the online world: they get used…

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    Tune of the Day

    Artists: Them Crooked Vultures Song: “New Fang”

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    Things to Think About: Publishing Links

    Richard Nash on “The Continuous Permanent Reinvention of Publishing” Booksellers ask the Justice Department to investigate the book price war under way between Wal-Mart, Amazon and Target. Google opponents urge court not to restrict comments on a revised book search…

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    Tune of the day

    Artist: Drake Song: “The Winner”

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    Morning Coffee

    Did we evolve from rocks? I sure hope so! Gabriel Garcia Marquez was under surveillance for years. Volunteers wanted for simulated 520-day Mars mission. Where do I sign up? “Hello, you’ve won the Nobel.” Museums are running out of room,…