Jennifer Egan Wins Pulitzer Prize
Excellent news! A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan has won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. You can read our interview with Egan here, and read some of…
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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.
Back into the Frey
Vice has posted an excerpt from James Frey’s forthcoming book, The Final Testament of the Holy Bible.”
Deus Ex East Coast
Live on the East Coast? Don’t miss our Books section editor Andrew Altschul’s East Coast tour for his book, Deus Ex Machina. Looks like the good times will include many…
Straight Talk
Poet Alex Dimitrov loves his straight boyfriend. (via @RandallMannPoet, who, it just so happens, is today’s featured poet for our National Poetry Month Project.)
Metal King
The Atlantic has a new story from Stephen King: “Herman Wouk Is Still Alive,” and talks with him about “the creative process, the state of fiction,” and… Metallica and Anthrax?…
The Kensal Rise
Zadie Smith has lost her battle to save the Kensal Rise, “a library in northwest London that Mark Twain founded in 1900” where Smith “studied […] as a teenager.” (via…
Lost (Sort of Grim) Poem
“A lost poem by David Foster Wallace, written when he was a child, has been found in the Wallace Archives at the Harry Ransom Center at the University of Texas.”…
Free Franzen (with a Catch)
If you become a fan of the New Yorker on Facebook you can read Jonathan Franzen’s essay about his relationship with David Foster Wallace for free (this week only, it…
Suing HuffAOL
“Today, a group of bloggers led by union organizer and journalist Jonathan Tasini will file a class-action suit against the Huffington Post, founder Arianna Huffington, and AOL, which acquired the…
Internet vs. Infinite Jest
“I recommend checking out The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B White…” Folks at Yahoo Answers critique an anonymously submitted first page, not knowing that it is actually…