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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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    Internal

    Kink.com has produced a short documentary on Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott and his erotica collection My Girlfriend Comes To The City and Beats Me Up. (NSFW)

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    Mountain Valley, Southwestern Virginia

    Josh Weil, author of The New Valley, has an essay in Granta 107 (Summer 2009) entitled “One Ridge Over.” The beautiful piece is about living alone in rural Virginia and is available online. Granta also posted a few of Weil’s…

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    Hollywood & Western

    “Charles Bukowski gives a tour of Hollywood and Western, highlighting his favorite bars, hangouts, hookers and dope-dealers.” From The Charles Bukowski Tapes (1985), by Barbet Schroeder.

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    Get Your War On… Jamba Juice (Update)

    Get Your War On and My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable creator David Rees has been ripped off in a major way by Jamba Juice’s latest ad campaign. To read our first post on the story, click here. More news…

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    Eclipse

    The longest total solar eclipse of this century “will be visible along a narrow swath of Asia and the Pacific Ocean later today.” The eclipse will last “six minutes and 39 seconds, which is near the theoretical maximum duration for…

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    Maureen Miller Takes On Jay-Z

    Have you  heard Jay-Z’s “D.O.A. (Death of Auto-Tune)”? It’s a damn good track (though some take issue with Jay for swinging at certain artists while leaving other auto-tuners, read his friends, pretty much unscathed). Fair or not, all you really…

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    Mike Birbiglia’s “Old Mill Pond” Story

    More Birbiglia here.

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    Get Your War On… Jamba Juice

    David Rees, creator of Get Your War On and My New Fighting Technique Is Unstoppable, is getting ripped off by Jamba Juice‘s latest ad campaign. Rees has responded by calling for a boycott of Jamba Juice, a boycott that comes…

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    Internal

    Greg Boose interviews Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott about the Lending Library for The Nervous Breakdown.

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    “Crowdfunding” and “Friendraising” a Shorty Q & A with Deanna Zandt

    Deanna Zandt is writing a book. She has a contract with Berrett-Koehler, but the publishing house does not usually “give advances, relying instead on a more author-friendly royalty structure.”

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    Words on Paper Aren’t Going Anywhere

    “The mission for book publishers and print media at large should be to create a product that is irreplaceable and indispensable.” Eric Obenauf, the publisher of Two-Dollar Radio, doesn’t think that print is dying. Changing? Certainly. But disappearing? No:

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    Starbucks Goes Local, Remains Evil

    “When is a Starbucks not a Starbucks? When it’s a 15th Avenue Coffee and Tea.” That’s right, the same company that made its name offering cookie-cutter storefronts all over the world has decided to rethink its strategy and rip-off the…

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