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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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    Taking Bets

    Is Lidia Yuknavitch the author behind Dear Sugar? Find out here.

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    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 by a soundtrack, which was created by über-talented KQED reporter…

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    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 Ellis), but as the leading edge of truths we’re desperate…

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    “Tune for Two”

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    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.

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    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 find ‘second-by-second joy + gratitude at the gift of being…

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    New Looks

    Congrats to both ZYZZYVA and Canteen on their snazzy new redesigns. Those are some good looking websites.

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    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 meditation on loneliness and longing in modern life. Publish date…

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    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 editor Michael Miller from an interview at Publishers Weekly.

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    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 off many a bookstore.

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    A Word to the Wise

    Don’t forget that today is April Fools’ Day, y’all.

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    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, where scholars have gone into an estate and unearthed a…

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