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Isaac Fitzgerald

  • Honest Art: A One Question Interview with Peter Squires

    “I am, for better or worse, a bit of an over-sharer who tends to wear his heart on his sleeve, so for me songs come more naturally (much to the chagrin of my exes).”

  • Morning Coffee

    This is sad, but it is also important: friendship. Normandy: Then and Now by French historian Patrick Elie. (via Metafilter) Borrowing something? Lending something? This might come in handy. Why would someone put salt on ice cream? Because. (Also, try…

  • Significant Objects

    Significant Objects marries writing with eBay. For example, Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott describes his Hawaiian Utensils here. And you can bid on them here. All the money goes to the author.

  • Eisie Shoots Papa

    “In 1952, LIFE sent legendary photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt to Cuba to shoot author Ernest Hemingway. The magazine needed photos to run alongside a new novella that would run in LIFE before it was published in book format. That book was…

  • Tune of the Day

    Artists: Radical Sons Song: “I’m So Sick of the 21st Century”

  • Out of Exile

    Today we have an interview with Craig Walzer, editor of the Voice of Witness book Out of Exile:  Narratives From the Abducted and Displaced People of Sudan. Craig discusses how he became involved in the project, his experiences in Sudan,…

  • Jonathan Ashley Imagines Michael Cunningham

    From Electric Literature.

  • “Everything paved over eventually cracks, sprouts weeds, and is overrun.”

    Andy Hunter, editor-in-chief at Electric Literature, has a “manifesto of sorts” about the future of independent publishing in Publishing Perspectives. He states that, “promotionally, the Internet is like the Wild West: boundless, lawless, and full of opportunity for the inventive,…

  • Tune of the Day

    Artist: Byrds of Paradise Song: “Rosebud”

  • Tune of the Day

    Artists: The Yellow Dress Song: “The Hills Have Eyes” Catch The Yellow Dress tonight, along with Starlee Kine of This American Life, air guitar genius Dan Crane, and so much more at the Monthly Rumpus!

  • The Adderall Diaries

    The Adderall Diaries by Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott got a rave review in the Sunday San Francisco Chronicle. More on the official Adderall Diaries Page.