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.
Kendra Grant Malone, author of Love Your Friends and Not Your Lovers (bore parade), has just released her most recent chapbook, Rape Children, for only $3 through J.A. Tyler‘s micro-press…
“Sick and Wrong,” a look at how Washington is screwing up health care reform. Robert Reich makes the case for public option in 150 seconds. Paul Krugman does it in…
The Adderall Diaries page has been updated to include a great review that ran today in Bookslut and more information on our low income galley giveaway. More here.
Schindler’s List and The Reader were scrutinized in Germany. The more recent Valkyrie “made German experts shake with indignation.” Even the uplifting Life is Beautiful was a box office dud…
The Adderall Diaries, by Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott, goes on sale today. Why not purchase from Powell’s, or your local bookstore? Check out a new interview with Elliott up at…
Today’s video interruption, in my humble opinion, is one of the best we’ve ever run. It involves a bear, a cardboard cutout, a papier-mâché mask, and a local Fox News…