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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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    The Scribd Sower

    Scott James, who writes under the pen name Kemble Scott, has a new book out: The Sower. Scott originally self-published The Sower on Scribd, an online “social publishing” site that hopes to democratize the bookselling industry. But after gaining popularity…

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    Google’s Book Search: Not Good for Academia?

    We’ve covered the Google book settlement quite a lot recently. While we tend to focus on how the case affects authors, Geoffrey Nunberg, a professor at the UC Berkeley School of Information, is looking past the settlement and examining what…

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    Tune of the Day

    Artist: Dirty Ghosts Song: “Battle Slang”

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    Birds on the Wires

    From Jarbas Agnelli: “Reading a newspaper, I saw a picture of birds on the electric wires. I cut out the photo and decided to make a song, using the exact location of the birds as notes.” (More here)

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    Little Old Riding Hood

    Speaking of evolution, it turns out that many common fairy tales are older than originally thought. Dr Jamie Tehrani has studied “35 versions of Little Red Riding Hood” and has been tracking them back to their origin. Previously thought to…

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    The Evolution of On the Origin of Species

    Science is fluid. Like everything else it progresses and evolves. Even Darwin’s On the Origin of Species transformed over the course of several editions. For example, “the phrase ‘survival of the fittest’ — usually considered central to the theory and…

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    Tune of the Day

    Artist: Divisible Song: “Everybody”

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    Health Care Links

    “I still believe we can do great things.” Obama’s health care speech. Senator Ted Kennedy’s letter to Obama about health care (delivered after Kennedy’s death): ‘At stake is the character of our country.’ Rep. Joe Wilson (R-SC), who shouted out…

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    Harvey Pekar Gets Online

    Harvey Pekar of American Splendor fame has teamed up with Tara Seibel, Joseph Remnant, Rick Parker, and Sean Pryor to create his first webcomic over at SMITH. The Pekar Project will have new stories every other week, along with “interviews,…

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    Free Nog

    Lit Drift is a new blog dedicated to “the art and craft of fiction in the 21st century.” Along with articles they have short stories, daily creative prompts (I really like this concept), and a weekly free book giveaway. The…

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    Tune of the Day

    Artist: Cory Branan Song: “A Girl Named Go”

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    Luca Dipierro Imagines Lydia Millet’s Sir Henry

    From Electric Literature. (via HTMLGIANT)