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Isaac Fitzgerald
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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.
Random Media Notes
Wikipedia’s “freewheeling ethos is about to be curbed.” Journalists hoping to embed with U.S. forces in Afghanistan may be screened by a Washington P.R. firm hired by the Pentagon. R.I.P.…
Morning Coffee
Adaptive re-use of crashed starships. If presenting Wuthering Heights like a new Stephenie Meyer gets people reading, does it matter? Scientists draw squid using its 150 million-year-old fossilised ink. A…
Stand Proud
“There’s a blurb on the front of the 2008 paperback edition of Elmer Kelton’s novel Stand Proud. It’s from True West magazine, and it reads, ‘One thing is certain: as…
No Jackets
“What makes these books so unusual-looking is that, even though they’re hardcovers, their cover art is not printed on dust jackets but instead stamped directly onto the boards that hug…
Random Media Notes
JPMorgan is now nation’s number one publisher. Outed blogger says Google failed to protect her right to privacy. Slate introduces new news aggregrator, “The Slatest.” Glenn Beck loses even more…
Greed Foiled in San Francisco
“From what I’ve seen, all their claims are smoke and mirrors.” — IT/New Media/tech issues lawyer Colette Vogele. Score one for the good guys. A private company claiming it owned…
Bottled Bull
As a man who likes his water like he likes his beer (from a tap), I’ve always found it funny that the popular bottled water brand Evian is “naive” spelled…
Identity Theft
“You’re a different person when you’re at work, at home, out with your friends. Over the course of your life, your sense of self and where you belong in the…
Where Walsh Writes
“Following David Markson, I write in the library where my recall is perfect and my thoughts organized. The library is the best quiet place to work through third drafts. “Like…