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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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    “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 as you can on the page, add in brawls, blood…

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    Amy Stein

    We’re really enjoying “Stranded,” a collection of photographs of broken-down motorists by Amy Stein (via Joshuah Bearman). You can find The Rumpus interview with Stein here, and more of her projects here.

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    Junk and the American Dialect Society

    Ben Zimmer makes a case for “junk” to be the word of 2010. (via TheBookBench)

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    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 description of what it is like to be a junky…

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    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.

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    Making a Case for Criticism

    Six critics at The New York Times “explain the importance of their work.” (via TheBookBench)

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    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 squeezing out the little guy” though, but instead a sign…

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    Throw ‘Em Up

    Jimmy Chen at HTMLGIANT brings you “Publishing Gang Signs.”

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    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 “an annotated, four-chapter fragment” has been published in McSweeney’s 36).

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    “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 why people do things, the more ideas you have about…

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    Run-On

    “Even if the World’s Longest Sentence record is fraught with asterisks […] the allure of the form is, well, longstanding.” Ed Park, whose own novel Personal Days ends with a sentence over 16,000 words long, discusses the “Very Long Sentence”…

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    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 Nick!

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