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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.
Lamp Literature
“There’s a mystery unfolding in the East Village. An unknown writer is serializing his or her new whodunit on the neighborhood’s streets, posting each page on a different lamppost.” Why…
New Mountain Goats
Want to listen to All Eternals Deck, the new album by The Mountain Goats, which doesn’t hit stores until March 29? NPR has got you covered. (via LargeHeartedBoy)
“Backbone”
“Backbone,” an excerpt from David Foster Wallace’s The Pale King, has been posted online by The New Yorker.
Dan Fucking Sinker
Meet Dan Sinker, the man behind the hilarious @MayorEmanuel Twitter account “who has a heart made out of Chicago and balls of punk rock.” (via @MotherJones)
Bad Boy Gauguin
“Paul Gauguin was a dreadful man who made some beautiful art. That’s the present take on him. In his craving for fame and fulfillment he dumped his family, bullied his…
Tell Your Friends
Here’s a “list of independent alternatives to closed Borders bookstores.” (via @RobSpill)
“Getting to Yes with Vonnegut”
It wasn’t easy for Charles J. Shields to get permission to pen Kurt Vonnegut’s biography, but it did include a couple of postcards. (via TheBookBench)
Handwritten Jest
“This is the first page of a handwritten draft of Infinite Jest.” (via The Atlantic)
Meet the Chana Family
“Coincidentally, Mr Chana is also head of a sect that allows members to take as many wives as he wants.” 1 husband. 39 wives. 94 children. 14-daughters-in-law. 33 grandchildren. The…