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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.
New Comic!
Artist Susie Cagle debuts in our Comics section today with “CONCERNS: I’m Here from the Government.”
Ward’s Woodcuts
“Ward’s roots were not in comics, though his work is part of the same large family tree, belonging somewhere among the less worm-ridden branches of printmaking and illustration. ” Art…
Talking About The NBA
The National Book Award Finalists have been announced, and include “13 women — the largest number ever.”
“The Hilarious and The Heartrending”
“Sedaris knew he wanted to be a writer from the age of 25, when he read a collection of Bobbie Ann Mason stories; he attempted to fulfil his ambition by…
New to Roth
Up until last month, Eryn Loeb had never read any Philip Roth. Now she’s read eight of his thirty-one books, giving herself a “crash course” in Roth’s work. (via LargeHeartedBoy)
One Long Ass Interview
There are long interviews with Tao Lin and then there are “Long Ass Interviews with Tao Lin” that have to be broken up into two parts.
Helping Spread the Word
General service announcement for all you Rumpus readers trying to score some free Internet access on an open wireless network: “Beware ‘Free Public Wifi.'” For reals. (via MediaBistro)
Dickens in the Third World
”Neither a British nor American young man living in the twenty-first century can understand a Dickens as well as I can. I am living in a Dickens atmosphere.” George Packer…
Tao Lin and Emily Gould: The Sam and Diane of the Youtube Generation?
Today over at The Awl, Emily Gould interviews Tao Lin for her awesome Cooking the Books series. The salad they make looks pretty tasty, but the real reason to watch…