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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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    Magnetic Books

    Claudia Gonson, of The Magnetic Fields fame, walks the NYRB through her life, book by book: “My Reading Life.” (via TheMillions)

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    NYT Love

    The Monthly Rumpus gets a shout-out in a New York Times article about San Francisco’s “lively lit scene.” Be sure not to miss the slide show, and, if you live in the Bay Area, don’t miss the next Rumpus!

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    Mark Jenkins

    Mark Jenkins‘ tape sculptures and street installations are amazing. Enjoy. (via Jeremy Hatch) Update: You can read an interview with Jenkins here.

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    Just Amazon Being Amazon

    Wish we could say we’re surprised, but we’re not: “Amazon charges Kindle users for free Project Gutenberg e-books.” Update: Amazon also “stopped hosting the WikiLeaks website on its server” today.

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    The Year of the Tweets

    “…but time goes all stretchy in the Twittersphere, just as it does in those folk songs in which the hero spends a night with the queen of the faeries and then returns to find that 100 years have passed and…

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    Makes Cents

    Colin Robinson, co-founder of OR Books, chats with GalleyCat about the publisher’s motto of “No book printed until it’s sold.” (via TheBookBench)

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    Concerns

    CONCERNS: I’m Here from the Government Another fantastic Rumpus comic from Susie Cagle.

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    “Any liquor, narcotics, tobacco, firearms, or explosives?”

    The New Yorker has dusted off a “selection of airport-security cartoons” dating back to 1938. (via TheMillions)

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    SFMag ♥s Rumpus Women

    “…a bold, and stylistically varied compilation whose 20 contributors span a range of topics—religion, race, motherhood, hiking, writing—each in conversation with the rest. (‘Pussy Fever,’ Cheryl Strayed’s thoughts on why she wishes sex work were obsolete, is followed by ‘Locker…

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    “Ted Wilson Is Everywhere”

    Our very own columnist Ted Wilson was mentioned on “All Things Considered” during an interview with the Ryan Montbleau Band. Check it out!

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    HORN! Reviews

    HORN! REVIEWS: Rumpus Women Volume I Rumpus book club member Kevin Thomas reviews our own Rumpus Women Vol. I in a Rumpus comic!

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    Dzanc’s eBook Club Deal

    Check it out, Dzanc Books is offering a deal if you purchase a gift eBook Club membership: “Give a friend 17 books over the course of the next 12 months (5 immediately and one per month) for $50 now, and…