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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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    Franzen’s Glasses Taken Hostage

    Two men gatecrashed Jonathan Franzen’s UK launch party and snatched the author’s glasses before handing him a ransom note that read “$100,000 – Your glasses are yours again!” The men then fled the scene. Were the two bifocal bandits caught?…

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    How to be intimate online

    Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott and HTMLGIANT founder Blake Butler in a roundtable discussion about online intimacy at The Faster Times.

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    Book Trailer: Ablutions

    Read “Ari Messer: The Last Book I Loved, Ablutions.”

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    Fallen

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    Printing Error

    Over in the United Kingdom quite a mistake has been made: “Tens of thousands of copies of the new novel by bestselling US author Jonathan Franzen, Freedom, have been recalled after an early draft of the book was printed by…

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    “The SF Cartoonist Conspiracy Presents…”

    Today is 24 Hour Comic Day! If you live in the Bay Area you can watch cartoonists do their thing live at Mission Comics. Click here for more information (and sweet drawings).

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    Really, We Just Wanted to Say “Federal Copy Editors”

    New York City’s street sign are getting a makeover: “Federal copy editors are demanding the city change its 250,900 street signs — such as these for Perry Avenue in The Bronx — from the all-caps style used for more than…

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    “I Luv U Bro”

    (via Uptown Almanac)

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    But is he handsome enough?

    Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott and James Franco share space in the New York Observer. Related, Perez Hilton calls Stephen Elliott “mildly insane.”

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    Double the Franzen, Double the Fun

    There are two (two!) Rumpus comics today that have to do with Jonathan Franzen: 1. Kevin Thomas’s awesome “HORN! Reviews” takes on Freedom. 2. Evil Wylie, aka, Andrew Shaffer, tackles the Franzen/Weiner controversy (with a little help from some literati…

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    Hornby’s Lonely Avenue

    “The author Nick Hornby often writes about music. One of his most famous novels, High Fidelity, is about a guy who works in a record store. But Hornby never actually made an album until he teamed up with singer-songwriter Ben…

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    Jovanovic and Ames Get Steamy

    Our own Rozalia Jovanovic recently hung out with Rumpus friend Jonathan Ames at the Russian baths on 10th street in New York’s East Village. The article she has written about the experience is pretty darn fantastic.