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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.
D.I.Y. Steve
Publishing Perspectives covers Rumpus contributor and “literary rock star” Steve Almond’s D.I.Y. success.
Meanwhile, Outtakes
Rumpus contributor and artist Wendy MacNaughton has posted a couple of outtakes from her fantastic “Meanwhile, Mission Bartenders” piece. Check ’em out.
Why Not Read It Three Times?
“Then I heard about the book from a friend so I ordered it and the book arrived and I read it almost immediately and then I read it again and…
An Award for Underappreciated Books
“Each year, the editors of the Believer generate a short list of the novels and story collections they thought were the strongest and most underappreciated of the year. ” The…
More on the HuffPo Strike
“Bill Lasarow, the publisher and editor of the two websites, said in an interview that the move is ‘not a hostile act in any sense whatsoever,’ but added that the…
PEN/Faulkner Award
Rumpus contributor and author Eric Puchner has been nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Also in the running? Jennifer Egan (who we’ve interviewed), Brad Watson (who we’ve interviewed), Jaimy Gordon (whose…
The Nagging Listeners of NPR
“I’m an NPR groupie. I listen to public radio for several hours a day—more often than I watch TV, more often than I do actual work. There’s only one thing…
Beckett on Joyce
“When I first met Joyce, I didn’t intend to be a writer. That only came later when I found out that I was no good at all at teaching.” A…
The Gospel of Taylor
The Paris Review talks with Justin Taylor about writing his first novel, The Gospel of Anarchy. Update: You can read a recent Rumpus interview with Taylor here.
Worse and Worse Every Year
“How did hollywood get here? There’s no overarching theory, no readily identifiable villain, no single moment to which the current combination of caution, despair, and underachievement that defines studio thinking…