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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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    Autonomika, Autonomika!

    Today Maddie Oatman interviews Brooklyn-based musician Aaron Wolfe, who records beautiful cover songs, writes about how the songs relate to his life, and then posts both the cover and the story to his Tumblr account, Autonomika, Autonomika! We highly recommend…

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    “A Hired Gun”

    “In the past year, I’ve written roughly 5,000 pages of scholarly literature, most on very tight deadlines. But you won’t find my name on a single paper.” Meet “Ed Dante,” an “academic mercenary” who makes his living writing papers for…

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    Tolstoy (Circa 1891)

    A few folks over at The Atlantic were going through their archives when they stumbled on a profile of Leo Tolstoy from 1891. (via TheMillions)

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    Vonnegut

    Happy Birthday Kurt Vonnegut.

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    “Baltimore Clap”

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    220,000 Copies

    Hey, George W. Bush, you’ve done so many worse things… much, much, much worse. Still: Fuck you!

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    Write (and Draw) What You Know

    “That’s why I read comics with fucked up sex stuff and murders and violence. Cuz that’s what life is.” An anonymous comic book shop employee is taking real quotes from customers and turning them into pretty great single panel comics.…

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    Dickens in Danger

    The Victoria and Albert Museum in London is hard at work trying to raise £25,000 in order “to properly conserve the low-grade blue writing paper Dickens used to write A Tale of Two Cities, David Copperfield and the unfinished The…

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    Trigger-Happy SoCal

    Dear Southern California, Let’s take it down a notch or two, shall we? I mean, a mysterious missile launch? Come on now. PS-Even the Pentagon “has no idea who launched the missile.”

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    Annals of Advertising: We’re Not Candy

    More from the Annals of Advertising.

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    Facebook and Twitter In the Back of the Class

    According to Digital Society’s “Online services security report card,” which examines how vulnerable certain sites are to cyber-attacks, Facebook and Twitter are going to have to attend digital security summer school.

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    This Is Why the Internet Exists

    George Takei Calls Out Anti-Gay Arkansas School Board Member (all sorts of awesome).