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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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    Little Books

    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 MLP Books. More about Tyler’s projects here, and you can…

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    Health Care Links

    “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 499 words. Conservatives are using an old talking point to…

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    Brief Interviews With Hideous Men Trailer

    David Foster Wallace’s Brief Interviews With Hideous Men is being made into a movie. More info here. (via Gawker)

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    The Adderall Diaries

    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.

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    Ouroboros

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    Germany Hearts Inglorious Basterds

    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 in Deutschland. So why is it that Berlin is embracing…

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    The Adderall Diaries update

    There’s some updates to The Adderall Diaries page, including an excerpt from the book in the San Francisco Bay Guardian.

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    Auto-Tune the News #8 (ft. T-Pain)

    That’s right, featuring T-Pain. (Don’t forget to check out The Rumpus interview with The Gregory Brothers)

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    Timelapse: Los Angeles Wildfire

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    Tune of the Day

    Artist: Terra Naomi Song: “Patron Saint of Strippers” (off Terra’s new album, Go Quietly)

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    The Adderall Diaries

    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 Faster Times. Also out today, what was Elliott listening to…

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    The Best Rumpus Video Interruptions According to Isaac Fitzgerald

    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 reporter who is either a viral video genius or lost…