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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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    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 created.

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    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.

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    Step, Clap, Go!

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    Do You Rewrite?

    Helen Schulman talks editing and rewriting with from Jennifer Egan, Cynthia Ozick, and Elizabeth Dewberry. (via TheBookBench)

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    Opening Sentence

    The opening sentence of The Pale King by David Foster Wallace.

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    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 Lady Monster: Queen of the Fire Tassels and rock star…

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    “The Must See Chart”

    “This is what class warfare looks like.”

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    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! The $11 half-pint of curried chicken salad! My second thought?…

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    “So I Shot Him”

    A “never-before-published short story” by Dashiell Hammett will appear in The Strand.

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    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) titled Humblebees. But we’re all going to be Humblebees-less unless…

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    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 story of family, California, and loss in his fantastic GQ…

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    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 of Wallace reading the story in 2000.”