Election Day Drawings
Rumpus cartoonist and graphic journalist Susie Cagle traveled to different Bay Area polling places on November 2nd and drew what she witnessed. The results are pretty darn neat.
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Isaac Fitzgerald
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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.
“Men can be strange. Wives are different.”
NPR has posted an excerpt from Dinaw Mengestu’s new novel, How to Read the Air. Be sure to check out our interview with Mengestu here.
Danya Glabau’s Tech Roundup
New Android keyboard 8pen reinvents typing on a touchscreen phone, but there’s a learning curve. Twitter is teaming up with HootSuite to bring ads, or promoted tweets, to a Twitter account near you.…
“Baseball” with Jack
Newsday writer Stan Isaacs’ 1961 article, “Playing ‘Baseball’ with Jack Kerouac.” (via TheMillions)
Manuscripts and Letters
in the Digital Age
Texts, emails, facebook accounts… how will archivists deal with authors’ digital documents? (via TheBookBench)
“I decided to do it because I was uncomfortable not being able to be myself.”
Kye Allums, a guard on George Washington University’s women’s basketball team, is a transgender man. “Kye will be the first publicly transgender NCAA Div. 1 basketball player when he steps…
Talking About The Rumpus
There’s a great conversation going on in the comments section of Seth Fischer’s essay, “Meta: A Rumpus Editor Ponders The Fate of The Rumpus.” Why not join the discussion?
It’s Time to Vote
We’re voting this morning. You should too. Click here to find your voting location.
Heartbreaking Sketches of Staggering Baseball II
Check it out: more baseball-inspired art from Dave Eggers, who attended game one of the World Series in San Francisco. (Yes, the image above reads “Yacht Wearing Beard.”)
New García Márquez?
83-year-old author Gabriel García Márquez is apparently working on a new novel titled We’ll Meet in August.