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Isaac Fitzgerald
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Edit Tweets
Here is a collection of some book editors that are worth following on Twitter. Update: One glaring omission is that Ethan Nosowsky (@Nosowsky), Editor-at-Large for Graywolf Press (@GraywolfPress), is not on GalleyCat’s list. We’re going to try and fix that.…
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“The Pale King Cometh”
David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King is already available online and at some bookstores despite an April 15th release date. Over at The Faster Times Rumpus contributor Lincoln Michel let’s you know “where to get it and what to expect.”
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“‘When It’s Not Your Turn’: The Quintessentially Victorian Vision of Ogden’s The Wire”
We do our best to stay away from pop culture here at The Rumpus, but this gets a pass. The reason? Well it’s not about the HBO hit series The Wire, but the Victorian masterpiece by “Horatio Bucklesby Ogden” also…
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“Don’t get pompous with me.”
“October, 1996. Having recently been interviewed for Rolling Stone, an angry Hunter S. Thompson writes a heated letter to his good friend and long-time collaborator, illustrator Ralph Steadman, and threatens to sever their relationship. ” Steadman, in turn, doesn’t take…
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“How to Be Happy”
“Wallace longed to give ‘CPR to those elements of what’s human and magical that still live and glow.’” The Boston Review examines “The Ethics of David Foster Wallace.” (via @MaudNewton)
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“Here I can muse in my books…”
“I feel comfortable in my limited space and fear that if I leave the ship for too long or go too far, it may sail without me, and that then I would be lost in the real world that I…
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“SF Bay Guardians”
“Our relationship with the police department is tenuous at best.” Justin Juul investigates the world of San Francisco’s “real life super heroes.” The piece includes excellent illustrations by our own Jon Adams, as well as enlightening facts about taser knuckles.
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Covering 1Q84
The cover for Haruki Murakami’s 1Q84, which was designed by Chip Kidd, has been revealed.