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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.
“I was an innkeeper.”
“And in fact it was your inn where Jesus was born. “That’s right. Well, not in the inn itself. Out back. “In the animal shed. “Yeah. I still get a…
Happy Holidays!
The Believer has posted “Barry Hannah [Writer] in Conversation with Wells Tower [Writer]” in its entirety. Happy holidays indeed.
“A Special Sort of Buzz”
“To understand the fiction of David Foster Wallace, it helps to have a little Wittgenstein.” Slate has posted an adapted version of James Wyerson’s “A Head That Throbbed Heartlike: The…
“Escape From Spiderhead”
The New Yorker has posted George Saunders’ latest short story in its entirety. Enjoy.
Jonathan Evison
“I never wanted to be anything but a writer, and I never let go of it. Then, when I was 40, somebody decided to start publishing me.” PW profiles novelist…
“A life changer!”
“THERE is a God! It passed! The Bush tax cuts have been extended two years for the upper bracketeers, of which I am a proud member, thank you very much.”…
“Barbara Comyns Is Not Anyone on Acid”
Be sure to check out Emily Gould’s essay about British author Barbara Comyns for The Awl’s “best women writers that you’ve maybe never read” section. Also, in case you missed…
Atheism By Numbers
“So next time someone tells me they believe in God, I’ll say ‘Oh which one? Zeus? Hades? Jupiter? Mars? Odin? Thor? Krishna? Vishnu? Ra?…’ If they say ‘Just God. I…
“It began with a list…”
“We wanted to make an edgy, honest, and literary book including the kind of writing that women contribute to TheRumpus.net week after week.” Our own Elissa Bassist tells the story…