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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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    2011: The Revenge of Print?

    “We are challenging everyone who’s ever made/self-published a zine, a comic or mini-comic before to dust off the ol’ photocopier and make at least one more new issue in 2011.” A scrappy group of self-publishers are hoping to make next…

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    LitCrawl 2010

    The SF Weekly has posted a slideshow from this year’s wonderful LitCrawl in San Francisco.

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    “If you run it out of your house, then no one expects anything…”

    Ben McGrath profiles Gawker Media founder Nick Denton for The New Yorker.

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    NCOD

    “On Oct. 11, 1987, half a million people participated in the March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights.” Happy National Coming Out Day everyone!

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    The San Francisco Coffee Wars

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    All Bets Are Off

    Betting on the Man Booker prize has been suspended “after a flurry of bets supporting Tom McCarthy’s novel C.” How many bets, exactly, is a “flurry” you ask? “The bookmaker’s spokesperson David Williams said £15,000-worth of bets were placed on…

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    “Now for a cheer they are here, triumphant!”

    “The board of elections in Washington D.C. has a new website designed to let soldiers and others vote from overseas. As a test, the board challenged outsiders to try to find faults with the system.” Can you guess what happened?…

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    Lighthouse Libraries

    “In 1876 portable libraries were first introduced in the Light-House Establishment and furnished to all light vessels and inaccessible offshore light stations with a selection of reading materials.” This is pretty wonderful: The USLHE’s Portable Library. (via TheBookBench)

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    To MFA or Not to MFA…

    Anelise Chen’s fantastic essay, “On Blowing My Load: Thoughts From Inside the MFA Ponzi Scheme,” still has an amazing conversation raging in its comments section. So, is it better to have MFA-ed and lost, than never to have MFA-ed at…

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    One of Five

    Paul Yoon has been named one of the National Book Association’s “5 under 35.” Read “The Rumpus Original Combo With Paul Yoon,” and then click here to see who else made the cut.

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    Being There Matters

    Here’s an interesting Nieman Report on foreign correspondence. In the report’s introduction John Maxwell Hamilton suggests that it is public lack of interest in news from abroad that has created the limited paid foreign correspondence in the media today. Logistically…

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    Viva La Print

    “There’s no emotional connection between the reader and the computer screen.” Lorin Stein promises that The Paris Review will stick to print.