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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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    “The Surf Guru”

    Listen to Doug Dorst, author of the Rumpus Book Club‘s July pick, The Surf Guru, read the collection’s title story.

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    6 Hours a Day, 7 Days a Week

    We’ve mentioned the size of Rumpus Book Club pick The Instructions a few times. But how long did it take author Adam Levin to write the behemoth book? “I worked on average six hours a day, seven days a week…

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    New Jewcy

    Well would you look at that, our friends over at Jewcy.com got an Internet facelift (also known as a “redesign”).

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    Senegalese Bike Tricks!

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    Robot

    Really Japan?!?! (via Tana Ganeva)

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    Bad Things That Could Happen

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    Best Petition Ever?

    “Plaintiff has news for these slime ball, piece of shit, ass clown judges […] that think they are going to rig the system and railroad the poor and innocent […]–that is simply not going to happen in this case. You…

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    Melville House Takes a Stand

    Melville House, who won the most recent Best Translated Book Award for Gail Hareven’s The Confessions of Noa Weber, is “withdrawing from any future involvement” with the prize. The reason? Amazon recently announced that they would underwrite the award with…

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    David Foster Wallace on Tumblr

    “The Boy,” an unpublished story by David Foster Wallace, has been posted on this tumblr account. (via TheBookBench) Update: The piece is transcribed from a DFW reading that took place back in 2000. You can listen to Wallace read the…

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    Heartbreaking Sketches of Staggering Baseball

    Dave Eggers took his sketchbook to game one of the World Series yesterday. You can view the author/artist’s baseball-inspired etchings here (our favorite is the beard couple).

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    Keep It Brief

    “Have you ever wanted to review a new book of poetry, but you felt like you might not have enough to say?” Rumpus pals and poets extraordinaire D. A. Powell and Randall Mann present The One Sentence Review.

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    Maya’s Boxes

    343 boxes of Maya Angelou’s “personal papers and documents,” including letters from the likes of James Baldwin and Malcolm X, have been acquired by The New York Public Library‘s Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.