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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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    Second ‘Donkey Blogger’ Released

    Yesterday we told you about the release of Adnan Hajizada, one of two bloggers who were jailed for “hooliganism” after a supposed fight in a restaurant, but who were more likely being punished for a “satirical Internet video in which…

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    A Long Talk with Burns

    “I was hooked at a really early age. I was looking at a lot of different things. The style I started emulating more was the classic comics style.” Cartoonist Charles Burns talk with the A.V. Club about his new book,…

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    Dinaw Mengestu on Writers Block

    Click here to listen to Dinaw Mengestu read a passage from How to Read the Air. Click here to read the Rumpus interview with Mengestu.

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    Erin Rose’s Tech Links

    Let’s all take a moment & be grateful, ’cause none of us have been thrown in a labor camp on our wedding day for tweeting a joke. A joke! A tisket, a tasket, a web tizzy over Apple co-founder saying Android’s…

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    “Charge, angry youth”

    “A woman in China has been sentenced to a year in a labour camp” for a tweet. We encourage those of you who use Twitter to re-tweet her statement (“Charge, angry youth”) in protest.

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    Donkey Blogger Released

    Adnan Hajizada, one of two bloggers who were jailed for “hooliganism” after a supposed fight in a restaurant, but who were more likely being punished for a “satirical Internet video in which Hajizada holds a fake government press conference dressed…

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    Slam Poetry

    Robert Pinsky ruminates on “Sir Walter Raleigh and the art of the poetic takedown.”

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    Not So Fast, Google

    French Culture Minister Frédéric Mitterrand is very wary of the country’s deal to let Google “scan French-language out-of-print books.” (via PW)

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    Blogging: A Centuries-Old Tradition

    “Montaigne raised questions rather than giving answers. He wrote about whatever caught his eye: war, psychology, animals, sex, magic, diplomacy, vanity, glory, violence, hermaphroditism, self-doubt. Most of all, he wrote about himself and was amazed at the variety he found…

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    Wordplay with Frey Fray

    While it’s obviously a good read about an interesting and timely subject, it’d be a lie to say we aren’t linking to this piece partly because of its clever title: “A Fray Over Frey’s Play to Prey on M.F.A.’s.” (via…

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    Sophie Yanow

    SPOTLIGHT SERIES A fantastic Rumpus Comic by guest artist Sophie Yanow.

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    We’ve Met?

    Interesting news for those of us who are forgetful of faces: it seems that good reading skills may be to blame. (via TheBookBench)