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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.
“What does a science fiction writer know about?”
“I can’t claim to be an authority on anything, but I can honestly say that certain matters absolutely fascinate me, and that I write about them all the time. The…
Random Media Notes
“The First Rule of J-School Is You Don’t Talk About J-School Debt” Writer Alex Grossman gets busted for impersonating Sarah Palin on Facebook. General Electric calls Bill O’Reilly report “irresponsible…
Jay Smooth on American Civility
“What this latest rap drama portends for the future of our nation.”
Guerrilla Distribution
“The glory days of independent film, when hot young directors like Steven Soderbergh and Mr. Tarantino had studio executives tangled in fierce bidding wars at Sundance and other celebrity-studded festivals,…
Random Media Notes Update
Recent analysis of Twitter claimes “40% of tweets are pointless babble.”
Random Media Notes
AP journalists wounded in Afghanistan. A laid off Time Inc. staffer plans to launch an “online regional news network” serving the Fort Greene/Clinton Hill area of Brooklyn. (via Mediabistro) LA…
A Reaction Sauce
Yesterday we linked to Malcolm Gladwell‘s most recent New Yorker essay, “The Courthouse Ring,” in which Gladwell discusses Atticus Finch, Alabama Governer “Big Jim” Folsom, race, and “the limits of…
Afghanistan Rocks the Vote
We’re not ones to write about pop stars, but NPR is reporting that Afghan “musical hero” Farhad Darya is performing numerous free concerts “to encourage his countrymen to vote in…
The Juggalo Gathering 2009
“It’s a Newport! You want the rest? Have it! Have the rest!” See also the 2009 Juggalo Gathering Infomercial.
“Edmund Wilson Regrets That It Is Impossible For Him To:”
Writer and famed literary critic Edmund Wilson wasn’t a fan of giving interviews, doing any kind of editorial work, reading manuscripts, and a number of other things according to a…