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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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    Jonathan Ames Gets Knifed by Throwdini!

    “i survived last night’s knife-throwing! it was spectacular and rather sexual, actually.” –@JonathanAmes We already have one post about Ames today, but I saw this and had to share it.

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    The Sedaris Pizza Delivery Co.

    By the comedy group Weak Nights. (via metafilter)

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    Kseniya Simonova – Sand Animation

    From Україна має талант.

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    Morning Coffee

    The most amazing website on the Internet. (might want to turn the sound down on your computer, NSFW) Perhaps the real question here is why was Sarah Palin signing a baby? Judge Sotomayer v. 1977 Kansas City Royals. Watch people…

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    Internal

    Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott got interviewed over at Chuck Palahniuk’s website.

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    VQR Interviews Michelle Orange

    The Rumpus’s own Michelle Orange has a contribution in the Virginia Quarterly Review‘s most recent issue. The piece, entitled “Beirut Rising,” “entertains with its amusing depiction of the Lebanese passion for plastic surgery, but the essay also penetrates deep into…

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    Novel Tweets

    Matt Stewart is hoping to make history this Bastille Day by becoming the first author (“as far as he can tell”) to publish his entire full-length novel via Twitter. The novel, conveniently titled The French Revolution, “is an epic San…

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    Why I Write

    A 20 page essay on “Why I Write” by Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott. Part memoir/part tips and insight. $3 from Scribd, read online or download. (He says he’s going to publish it on The Rumpus at some point, so you…

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    What It All Means

    Video for a previously unreleased song by Sam Phillips,  which appears on The Believer‘s July/August 2009 Music Issue CD entitled “Fantastic and Spectacular,” which was compiled by Daniel Handler.

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    Blogging for Book Deals

    What do Look at this Fucking Hipster, Postcards from Yo Momma, Stuff White People Like, I Can Has Cheezburger, and Barack Obama is Your New Bicycle, have in common (you know, aside being online sensations)? Book deals. Many bloggers, especially…

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    The Un-formulaic Life of the Man Who Invented the Movie Formula

    Wycliffe A. Hill is the grandfather of the cookie cutter Hollywood movie.  Author of Ten Million Photoplay Plots: The Master Key to All Dramatic Plots, which was published in 1919, Hill created an assembly line approach to writing screenplays: character…

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    Auto-tune the News #6

    Palin. Drugs. And a certain celebrity who passed away. The latest from The Gregory Brothers (read our mini-interview with the group here).

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