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

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • March 16, 2009
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…
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Gervais on Sesame Street

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • March 12, 2009
“You can’t even control a muppet and a fat guy.”
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The Mother of all Funk Chords

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • March 11, 2009
Thru You- Kutiman Mixes YouTube
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Eric Blair, National Treasure?

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • March 4, 2009
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,…
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Get Clean Coal

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • February 26, 2009
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,…
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Chuck and Charles’ Beautiful Children

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • January 23, 2009
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…
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Fiction Used to Justify Real Torture

  • Isaac Fitzgerald
  • January 13, 2009
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
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