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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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    The Last Book I Loved: Isaac Fitzgerald, the first half of The Night of the Gun

    That’s not to say I didn’t like the second half of the book, where David Carr gets his life back on track and ends up working as a writer for the New York Times. But I’m a sucker for a…

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    Gervais on Sesame Street

    “You can’t even control a muppet and a fat guy.”

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    The Mother of all Funk Chords

    Thru You- Kutiman Mixes YouTube

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    Eric Blair, National Treasure?

    Julian Barnes weighs in on three collections of George Orwell’s work— Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays, compiled and with an introduction by George Packer; All Art Is Propaganda: Critical Essays, again compiled by George Packer, with an introduction by Keith…

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    Get Clean Coal

    Reality‘s latest ad in their campaign against the coal industry comes from the same folks who brought you The Big Lebowski, O Brother, Where Art Thou?, Raising Arizona, and Fargo, to name a few. That’s right, this dose of reality…

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    Chuck and Charles’ Beautiful Children

    Charles Bock’s “Beautiful Children” comes out in paperback today with a new cover by rock and roll poster legend Chuck Sperry. Bock and Sperry have also created their own adult comic book that they will be giving out at Bock’s…

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    Fiction Used to Justify Real Torture

    Jack Bauer, that torturing hunk of manliness whose bad days involve more nuclear weapons and sexy double agents than hangovers and parking tickets is back