“New York City Judge Rejects Google Books Deal”
“Saying Google Inc. had overstretched, a federal judge on Tuesday rejected a deal between the giant search engine and lawyers for authors and publishers that would have let the company…
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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.
Other People We Reviewed
Don’t miss Bracha Goykadosh’s review of Emma Straub’s Other People We Married in the Rumpus Books section.
Which Bay Area Reading Event Is Right For You?
Rumpus contributor Evan Karp and Rumpus Comics artist Susie Cagle have joined forces to create “The Bay Citizen’s Guide to San Francisco’s Literary Readings,” a very fun choose-your-own-adventure-style app that…
A Very Good Point
Sam Biddle argues that “Facebook is AOLifying the Internet,” and explains why “that sucks.”
Grid Growth
“In 1811, John Randel created a proposed street grid of Manhattan.” Now, thanks to a fun interactive map from the New York Times, you can compare Randel’s map “along with…
Happy Fear and Loathing Day
“Forty years ago today, on March 21, 1971, Hunter S. Thompson and a Chicano activist attorney named Oscar Zeta Acosta drove from Los Angeles to Las Vegas to talk over…
Tits and Sass
“We come from different backgrounds and locations, work as strippers, porn performers, pro-dommes, prostitutes, and have a love of ripping apart stereotypes. This is our space for calling out pop…
“Literary Stature”
A very cool graphic from 1906 showing the “comparative popularity of British novelists at the end of the 19th century.” (via FlowingData)