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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 Adderall Diaries Page

    updated September 27 The Adderall Diaries Page Has Moved. CLICK HERE FOR THE UP-TO-DATE ADDERALL DIARIES PAGE. ** For media questions about The Adderall Diaries contact Erin Kottke: kottke AT graywolfpress.org. For Stephen Elliott’s bio go here. NEW: An interview…

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    The Greatest Video Interruption of All Time?

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    The Write Links

    Author/publisher Christopher Herz is giving new meaning to handselling. “Every day he takes 10 copies out to the streets and does not come home until he sells all of them.” Artifice Magazine‘s submission wishlist (via HTMLGIANT). Check it out, and…

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    Meet Jimmy Tarangelo

    By Sean Dunne. (via kottke)

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    Random Media Notes

    Financial Times warns readers: ‘don’t email our articles.’ A 26 year old former fact checker is the new managing editor of The New Yorker. Wall Street Journal claims a P.R. executive’s column is not a conflict of interest, despite the…

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    Much Ado About Dust Jackets

    A few days ago we highlighted an article about the current trend of books without dust jackets. In her latest column Allison Hoover Bartlett, author of The Man Who Loved Books Too Much, takes us past the jacket/no jacket debate…

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    L.A. on Fire

    Nathanael West‘s The Day of the Locust tells the story of Tod Hackett, a painter trying to survive in Hollywood while planning his masterpiece, “The Burning of Los Angeles.” Hackett is surrounded by dubious characters: an actress as beautiful as…

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    Await Your Reply

    Creepiest book trailer to date? For Dan Chaon‘s Await Your Reply.

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    The Write Links

    “Unsettled: The PW Survey on the Google Book Settlement” A Q&A with (rockstar) literary agent Georges Borchardt. Underground Library is hoping to do for the literary underground what MySpace has done for independent music. More on the Google settlement: “Libraries…

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    Random Media Notes

    The New York Times’ latest revenue stream? Seminars taught by columnists. “Elle Offers Internship to Homeless Girl” (via Mediabistro) Sony releases latest Kindle rival, the Reader Daily Edition. “Who’s Driving Twitter’s Popularity? Not Teens” New Vibe gets new editor-in-chief.

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    Would Tolstoy Get Tenure?

    “Name of applicant: Rimbaud, Arthur “The candidate is not suited to a university environment except as an expellable member of a fraternity – if one would take him. The committee unanimously withholds details.” Times Higher Education ponders how academic search…

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    Daniel Pelletier: Paralyzed Skateboarding

    Amazing. More videos here.

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