The Times’ Paywall
Arthur Ochs Sulzberger Jr., publisher of The New York Times, has announced the paper’s new, somewhat convoluted, digital subscriptions plan. Not surprisingly a workaround to the paywall has already been…
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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.
A Future for Modern Times?
It’s official, landmark San Francisco bookstore Modern Times is closing its doors… but there may be hope for a new beginning.
Do You Rewrite?
Helen Schulman talks editing and rewriting with from Jennifer Egan, Cynthia Ozick, and Elizabeth Dewberry. (via TheBookBench)
A More Than Interesting Night
Tonight(!) in San Francisco, Wave Books and The Rumpus bring you “A More Than Interesting Night.” Featuring authors Andrew Altschul, Joshua Mohr, Beverly Parayno, and Timothy Donnelly. With performances by…
Whole Foods, Empty ‘Hood
“My first thoughts when I saw the solar-powered Whole Foods sign go up in my neighborhood were: My life just got a million times better. The convenience! The consistent quality!…
“So I Shot Him”
A “never-before-published short story” by Dashiell Hammett will appear in The Strand.
Save Humblebees
Morning Coffee editor Dan “The Man” Weiss has a band. That band’s name is The Yellow Dress. The Yellow Dress is working on a new album. That album is (tentatively)…
California Dreaming
“I was 12 the first time I visited California, which as far as I was concerned was twelve years too late.” Rumpus contributor and PEN/Faulkner nominee Eric Puchner shares his…
Comparing DFW to DFW
Over at the Paris Review Lorin Stein draws our attention to “a version of the David Foster Wallace story ‘Backbone’ that compares the recent New Yorker version to a transcript…