“Dear Good Ole Boys of the Literary South”
“You try to make people cry — in workshops and at parties. […] But just to make sure no one thinks you’re really soft, you kill off as many dogs…
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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.
Junk and the American Dialect Society
Ben Zimmer makes a case for “junk” to be the word of 2010. (via TheBookBench)
Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
“No less an authority than William Burroughs has called Confessions ‘the first, and still the best, book about drug addiction… No other author since has given such a completely analytical…
Wallace-L and the Howling Fantods
David Foster Wallace’s “secret life as a philosopher” and the story of how Fate, Time, and Language, his honors theses turned postmortem book, came to be published.
Making a Case for Criticism
Six critics at The New York Times “explain the importance of their work.” (via TheBookBench)
Integrated Shelves
Sadly, like so many independently owned businesses, many LGBT bookstores are closing up shop. Andrew Belonsky argues that it may not be a cut and dry story of “big business…
Wrecked City
Michael Chabon talks about “what he was able to salvage from the wreck of Fountain City,” his novel that never saw the light of day (until now that is, as…
“Any favorite writing exercises?”
“Eavesdrop and write it down from memory–gives you a stronger sense of how people talk and what their concerns are. I love to eavesdrop! Gossip. The more you talk about…
Stride Gives Rombes Some Love
Well would you look at that, our very own Nicholas Rombes‘ Nightmare Trails at Knifepoint (which we discussed here) has been named one of Stride Magazine‘s best of 2010. Congrats…