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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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    Derek Boogaard

    The New York Times has published a fascinating (and heartbreaking) three-part examination of the life and death of professional hockey player/enforcer Derek Boogaard. From childhood dreams to devastating addiction and brain damage, reporter John Branch’s bloody but beautiful profile of…

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    Dog Hates Fags

    Cassie J. Sneider sent us a lil’ piece she drew recently (based on this well-known photograph) that we just had to share. Catch it in all its glory after the jump:

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    3.2 Million Dots

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    Ira Glass Writes (Steals?) Like a Motherfucker

    Cool thing #1: Jane Marie, co-editor over at The Hairpin (a site we ♥), included Sugar’s Write Like a Motherfucker mug on her list of “Gifts for Dudes.” (Thanks Jane, we love you back!) Cool thing #2, though, is that…

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    “The Wizard of #OWS”

    “We are not the leaders, but we did spark it.” Guernica chats with Kalle Lasn, the editor in chief of Adbusters.

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    Drawing Didion

    Click image to enlarge. Artist and Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton draws Joan Didion and Vendela Vida in conversation at City Arts & Lectures.

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    Steve Jobs the “Tweaker”

    “I’ll know it when I see it. That was Jobs’s credo, and until he saw it his perfectionism kept him on edge.” Malcolm Gladwell examines (what be believes to be) “the real genius of Steve Jobs.”

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    All About Orner

    Peter Orner’s new book, Love and Shame and Love, got some *ahem* love today from the New York Times. No surprise to us though, as the book is our November selection for The Rumpus Book Club (which, it’s worth mentioning,…

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    Longreads ♥

    Longreads.com, which links to “the best long-form stories on the web,” has picked Rebecca K. O’Connor’s beautiful essay “What We Lost When We Lost Barbara Jean” as one of their selections today. Thanks Longreads.com, we love you back!

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    KISS + Disco

    Things get real weird around second 16. (via @rollingskull)

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    Writers In Support of The Occupy Movement

    “We, the undersigned writers and all who will join us, support Occupy Wall Street and the Occupy Movement around the world.” OccupyWriters.com has some new original work posted today, including “Thirteen Observations made by Lemony Snicket while watching Occupy Wall…

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    “Chuck Palahniuk Goes to Hell”

    “It’s liberating. Fight Club is what bought me my freedom. When you think about so many people—Burroughs, you think of Naked Lunch—so many people are just identified by one work. So it’s not so unusual. Ken Kesey, you think of…