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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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    Lesbian Sex (Haiku)

    “It’s like straight sex: same regrets, insecurities, but with more laundry.” Anna Pulley’s haikus for adulthood: “How Lesbian Sex Works.”

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    A New Rumpus Comic: Animals in Midlife Crises

    ANIMALS IN MIDLIFE CRISES: Tiger A brilliant new Rumpus Comic from Lincoln Michel and John Dermot Woods.

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    “Dearest”

    “I feel certain that I am going mad again. I feel we can’t go through another of those terrible times. And I shan’t recover this time.” Virginia Woolf’s heartbreaking last letter to her husband. (via @Weegee)

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    “I Write to Live Life Twice”

    Yesterday our own LaToya Jordan asked Rumpus readers “is writing therapy?” The question has sparked an excellent conversation, which is still taking place. Why not join the debate?

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    How to Get a Record Deal

    Musician Peter Squires (who we interviewed in 2009) recently joined forces with Anne Marple to take on the RPM challenge. The challenge, which “is a little like National Novel Writing Month” but with music, is to write and record a…

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    Where the Wild Pig Is

    “At 82, children’s-book author Maurice Sendak has created a new wild thing—a pig who longs to party.” Meet “Bumble-Ardy.” (via PW)

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    Book Thief/Poet

    “In Mexico there was an incredible bookstore. It was called the Glass Bookstore and it was on the Alameda. Its walls, even the ceiling, were glass. Glass and iron beams. From the outside, it seemed an impossible place to steal…

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    Online Marginalia

    Reyhan Harmanci at The Bay Citizen discovers New Yorker cartoon marginalia in the magazine’s digital archives.

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    Google’s Next Move

    “Now that a judge has curtailed Google’s ambitions to create a giant digital bookstore and library, the company is left with few appealing options.” The Times takes a look at where the internet giant can go, now that a judge…

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    Gov. LePage

    Dear Paul LePage, Governor of the great state of Maine: Go fuck yourself. (Link via MeFi, sentiments purely our own.)

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    Sad Stuff on the Street

    Sad Stuff on the Street is exactly it sounds like, pictures of sad stuff (like the broken rainbow umbrella above) on the street. Started by Greg Larson and Sloane Crosley (a short back-story of the site can be found here,…

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    “An Amazing Tale of Survival”

    Dana Albarella James tells the story of her “life without a cell phone.”