An Uplifting Story
“Rejected by his parents, accepted by 13 colleges, a Mission High wrestling star defies deportation.” You know what else he defies? Homophobia. This is your feel good article of the…
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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.
Demolition Daisy
“A Long Island mansion said to have inspired F. Scott Fitzgerald in writing his classic American novel The Great Gatsby has poured its last drink, rolled up the dance floor…
You’re Missing Out
“The vast majority of the world’s books, music, films, television and art, you will never see. It’s just numbers.” Linda Holmes muses on “the sad, beautiful fact that we’re all…
Memories of Pittsburgh
Matthew Gallaway, “a Pittsburgher in exile,” explains why he wrote The Metropolis Case, “set partially in Pittsburgh, […] largely from memory.”
Do you Treme?
We do our best to stay away from pop-culture here at The Rumpus, but book club member and contributor Ray Shea writes for a pretty rad Treme-focused blog, Back of…
The Erotic Allegorical Fiction of Saddam Hussein (And More!)
Last week Seth Fischer wrote about the poor prose of politicians. Well it seems Foreign Policy has found the worst sub-genre of that form: the writing of dictators.
James Agee
“The truth is that we would not think of Agee as a failure if he did not insist on it himself.” The New Republic has posted an essay by John…
Another Beautiful Book from McSweeney’s
Our friends over at McSweeney’s have sent us a picture of the cover art for the soon-to-be-released A Moment in the Sun, by John Sayles:
Egan on Winning the Pulitzer
“My focus is less on the need for women to trumpet their own achievements than to shoot high and achieve a lot. What I want to see is young, ambitious…