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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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    Made in New York

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    Christopher Hitchens and the Eight-Year-Old

    “What books should I read?” That’s the question a brave eight-year-old girl asked Christopher Hitchens at the Dawkins Award ceremony in Houston, TX. Click here to learn what happened next.

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    “Time is a gift…”

    “Our cult of decade anniversaries—the tenth of 9/11, the twentieth of ‘Nevermind’—are for the most part mere accidents of our fingers: because we’ve got five on each hand, we count things out in tens and hundreds. And yet the fifty-year…

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    Occupy Wall Street Library

    “A prerequisite for any successful revolution is literature.” In case you missed it: we posted a story by Matthew Wolfe about “The Occupy Wall Street Library” over the weekend.

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    Party with McSweeney’s in SF

    Bay Area Readers: don’t miss tonight’s McSweeney’s 38 Release Party at Amnesia (853 Valencia Street) featuring Chanan Tigay and Nathaniel Rich! The event kicks off at 6:30pm, and is sure to be a blast. Hope to see you there!

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    “Have You Seen My Sister Evelyn”

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    “Wanna Live Forever? Become a Noun”

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    Sugar ♥♥♥

    From the “Things Making Us Smile This Friday” files: Jill Filipovic of Feministe calls Sugar “a national treasure” and “the best advice columnist on all of the interwebs.”

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    Juggalos: True Fringe Culture

    “Finally, something should be said for the fact that although I like to identify myself with punks and outcasts and ‘fringe culture’ (whatever the fuck that’s supposed to mean), the truth is that Juggalos are the real outcasts, they’re the…

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    Best Dancing You’ll See All Day

    (via Kottke)

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    Troy Davis Update

    Very sad news from the NYTimes: “Supreme Court Will Not Stop Davis Execution.” For live updates follow @kimseverson. Update: “Troy Davis dead at 11:08.”

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    Unauthorised Assange Autobiography

    Tomorrow Canongate, Julian Assange’s former publisher, plan to “publish ‘the unauthorised first draft’ of his autobiography without his consent, months after the WikiLeaks founder withdrew from a million-pound contract for his memoirs.”

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