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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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    Random New Yorker

    The Awl talks with Suzie Townsend, book lover, former High School English teacher, and literary agent, as part of the site’s Random New Yorker section.

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    “Thanksgiving Prayer” by William S. Burroughs

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    The Tao of Vice

    Vice interviews Tao Lin, calling him “clean, energetic, powerful.”

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    Tangier

    “Tangier may be a different place from the one that accommodated Bowles, William S Burroughs, Jack Kerouac and so many other giants of 20th-century literature, but there’s still a tang to the place that provides an exciting sense of what…

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    “Self-absorption is general, as is self-doubt.”

    An essay from 1979 by Joan Didion about the work of Woody Allen. (via TheMillions)

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    Murdoch vs. Gawker

    Looking for a good summary of events between Rupert Murdoch’s HarperCollins and Gawker concerning the leaked excerpt of She-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named’s book? Look no further.

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    And the Nominees Are…

    Click here to find out who has been nominated for the eighteenth annual Literary Review Bad Sex in Fiction Award. (via MobyLives)

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    Norris Church Mailer

    Lawrence Schiller remembers Norris Church Mailer, Norman Mailer’s sixth and final wife, who passed away last Sunday at the age of 61. (via TheBookBench)

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    Smith and Lethem

    National Book Award winner Patti Smith talks books with Johnathan Lethem (warning: it’s a long talk).

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    $200,000+

    “I was 18 and the first person in my family (including extended family!) to attend college. Therefore, not only was excitement consuming me, but my parents didn’t exactly know how college would or wouldn’t affect my salary in the future.…

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    Consider the Archive

    Newsweek rummages through “the mixed-up files of David Foster Wallace” at the University of Texas. After you’ve read the article, be sure not to miss the photos of DFW’s notes and books.

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