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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.
MacNaughton and Standen
Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton’s latest “Meanwhile” piece, “The Bolinas Winemaker,” was originally created for Pop-Up Magazine’s Sidebar event at SFMOMA in San Francisco. The piece appeared as a slideshow accompanied…
More Pale King
“[…] The Pale King treats its central subject—boredom itself—not as a texture (as in Fernando Pessoa), or a symptom (as in Thomas Mann), or an attitude (as in Bret Easton…
This Is Very Sad
The Bay Citizen is reporting that San Francisco’s A Different Light Bookstore, “one of the few remaining LGBT bookstores in the United States,” will soon be shuttering its doors.
The Grey Lady and The Pale King
“Happiness, Wallace suggests in a Kierkegaardian note at the end of this deeply sad, deeply philosophical book, is the ability to pay attention, to live in the present moment, to…
This Is Running For Your Life (and Getting a Book Deal)
We’re very excited to announce that FSG has purchased a new book by Rumpus contributor Michelle Orange! Titled This Is Running For Your Life, the book is a story-driven, cultural…
Rumpus Book Club Hat Tip
“I think Stephen Elliott has good taste, so I usually check out what he chooses for his reading group at The Rumpus. That’s how I heard about Deborah Baker’s The Convert.” Bookforum reviews…
Tax Day Comes Early
David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King was supposed to hit stores on April 15th (Tax Day), but many online outlets are already shipping the book, a fact which is pissing…
Posthumous DFW
“He left us this book—the people closest to him agree that he wanted us to see it. This is not, in other words, a classic case of Posthumous Great Novel,…