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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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    Unpacking Rick Moody

    “I watched a lot of monster movies as a kid. In fact, in the period after my parents divorced, which was in 1970 or so, the one thing that I did reliably no matter the address was watch horror movies…

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    Godard vs. (The Concept of) eBooks

    Before ebooks even existed filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard was wary of them. (via PW)

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    “Breece’s Bones”

    Giancarlo DiTrapano and Scott McClanahan visit the grave of author Breece D’J Pancake.

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    RedState ♥s Donald (Not Really)

    “Doofuses,” “goofballs,” “self-aware parasites,” and “political pornographers.” The folks over at RedState use some pretty fun words to describe Donald authors Stephen Elliott and Eric Martin (as well as the book’s publisher, McSweeney’s) in a rather rant-y post about the…

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    “Band Booking”

    Jason Diamond over at Vol. 1 Brooklyn has kicked off a new series, Band Booking, where musicians talk books. The first installment features “composer, violinist, keyboardist and songwriter” Owen Pallett discussing David Mitchell, H.P. Lovecraft, and not being the biggest…

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    “Dear Marlon…”

    “I’m praying that you’ll buy On the Road and make a movie of it…. I visualize the beautiful shots could be made with the camera on the front seat of the car showing the road (day and night) unwinding into…

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    Where’s Your Hometown?

    Michael Chabon ruminates on the concept of “hometown” while discussing his novel-in-progress, Telegraph Avenue.

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    “Office and Denunciation”

    “I offer myself to be devoured by Spanish peasants…” A previously undiscovered draft of Federico Garcia Lorca’s “Office and Denunciation,” a poem in which Lorca draws a “portrait of the United States during the Great Depression,” has been found. (via…

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    An Essay Not to Miss

    “The esteemed Steve Almond delivers the best take – and best-written essay – I’ve seen on the Giffords shooting.” David Sirota praises Steve Almond’s “Surely Some Revelation Is at Hand.” (via TruthDig, who also gave Steve’s essay love. Thanks TruthDig!)

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    Facelift

    Our good friends at Tin House have redesigned their website and it is looking good!

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    Scoop

    Book Forum breaks the news on Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott’s new book.

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    “My Hero”

    “It’s hard to think of a novelist, let alone another singer-songwriter, who takes on such diverse narrative viewpoints with Bush’s aplomb: a foetus during nuclear war (‘Breathing’), a weather-machine inventor’s daughter (‘Cloudbusting’), a suicide bomber (‘Pull Out the Pin’) or…

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