Random Media Notes
Even more advertisers bail on Glenn Beck. Salon lays off 20% of its editorial staff. Reader’s Digest prepares to file for bankruptcy. “Amish Newspaper Finds Success the Old-Fashioned Way” Time…
Posts by author
Isaac Fitzgerald
1891 posts
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.
Young, Unemployed, and Scottish
“Choose a job. Choose a career. Choose a family. Choose a fucking big television. Choose washing machines, cars, compact disc players, and electrical tin openers. Choose good health, low cholesterol…
Stylistic Departure
Dan Chaon has written a guest post for Kepler’s Books’ blog, Well-Read Donkey, in which he discusses his love of thrillers, how we look at “genre” fiction versus “literary” fiction,…
The Sketchy History of Times New Roman
“The case that Parker makes about the real origins of Times New Roman stands on narrow foundations. The sole piece of surviving evidence for his version of history is a…
The Pixies Meet Jean Luc-Godard
A “video to Pixies’ ‘Wave of Mutilation’ using shots from Jean-Luc Godard’s Pierrot le fou (Pierrot Goes Wild) from 1965.” (via @MarisaNakasone)
Morning Coffee
Not really sure what these are, but they sure are pretty. Faces from The Wire. Don’t know what to tweet? You’re welcome. Bicycle “ticketed” for being badass and unique. A…
One Hell of a Gap
The rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer. An updated graph showing the income share of America’s top %0.01 from 1913 through 2007 reveals that income inequality…
Help Make a Story
“Any bird departing the yard in a north-north-westerly direction could by chance alight on the window-ledge of room 62A of the Florencio Motel, where a recently arrived woman is living…
Choose Your Own “Adventure”
In his post “The Limits of Narrative” Mark Pritchard links to Alison Flood’s recent article “How I learned to cheat at reading” in which she writes “It was the Choose…
Random Media Notes
The New York Times is going into the wine business in hopes of making some scratch. Glenn Beck continues to lose sponsors. Top US media companies and marketers have created…
Grandmaster of 108
“Born in Greece and raised on West 71st Street in Manhattan, Kessler started skateboarding when he was 11. This was in the 1970s, a time when skateboarding was so alien…