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…
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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.
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.
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…
“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…
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…
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.”
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…
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…
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…