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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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    Breaking Laws to Break the Story

    Rupert Murdoch‘s U.K. tabloid News of the World, and its parent company News Group Newspapers (also owned by Murdoch), are under scrutiny after The Guardian reported that the group paid 1 million pounds (1.6 million dollars) in out-of-court settlements to…

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    Random Media Notes

    New York Times Magazine withdraws altered photo essay. Is unconcious plagiarism, ala Maureen Dowd, real? Yes and no. Pandora, online radio stations, reach fee deal. Analyst who made forecast about Up admits to being wrong. NFL says no to players…

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    Billy Twitters and His Big Blue Whale Problem

    Mac Barnett, former director of 826LA, has released a children’s book:  Billy Twitters and His Blue Whale Problem. JR at Three Guys One Book has this to say:

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    America Wants to Gay Marry the Phrase “Gay Marry”

    Mark Peters takes a look at the linguistic and cultural meanings behind America’s favorite new idiom: “gay marry.” You know, as in… “‘I going [sic] to do unspeakable things to this sandwich. Like gay-marry it.’ June 23, 2009, Alison Agosti,…

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    Hala Hala’s Uncommon Economic Indicator

    “The owner of the Hala Hala bodega explains what he sells the most of in this economy and gives his thoughts on why.” From Isaac Littlejohn Eddy‘s Fort Greene Illustrated (read our one word interview with Isaac here).

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    Richard Pryor’s ABCs

    “‘Cause that’s the Z of the game.”

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    Morning Coffee

    Sarah Palin threatens to sue the Internet. (we don’t generally go here, as this is plenty covered on Huffpo and everywhere else, but when someone threatens to sue the Internet we take it seriously.) The purpose of a book cover.…

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    Happy Fourth of July

    By PES. (via Laughing Squid)

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    Look at How Much Fun We’re Having!

    As you no doubt know, we’ve got another Rumpus event coming up this Tuesday, July 7, in San Francisco: Sex, Music, Comedy night with Jill Sobule. We’ve got a bunch of great acts including sex worker/authors Michelle Tea, Kirk Read,…

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    Michelle Orange on Lynn Shelton

    Lynn Shelton‘s third feature film, Humpday (trailer after the jump), is getting a lot of love for its quiet, almost bashful take on this year’s favorite buzz-relationship: “the bromance.” Humpday takes the concept to a whole new level though, with…

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    Harry Allen on the Death of VIBE

    Harry Allen, Hip Hop activist and writer for The Source, The Village Voice, and other publications, has a touching and insightful piece about the death of VIBE magazine on his blog Media Assassin. Allen, who was a freelance writer for…

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    Jesse Dangerously: Righteous Bad Ass

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