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Tracy Seeley, book blogger, gives a fine, insightful review to Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott’s The Adderall Diaries.
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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.
The Instructions Video
Check it out, the Rumpus Book Club‘s October pick, The Instructions by Adam Levin, now has a cool (and educational) video.
This’ll Make Your Friday
A number of love letters written by Oscar Wilde have been made public for the first time.
“Become This Year’s Grinch”
It’s way too early for Christmas, but here’s “The Meanest Christmas Gift You Can Give Your Writer Friends.” It’s cool though, you can redeem yourself by giving them this essay…
Freedom Infograph
A very cool chart: “Voice and Reader Gratification in Jonathan Franzen’s Freedom” by Paul Barrett. Disclaimer: Coolness levels may vary depending on whether you’ve read/are reading the book or not.…
Rumored Existence
Poetry Daily has posted Timothy Donnelly’s “The Rumored Existence of Other People,” which can be found in Donnelly’s collection The Cloud Corporation (this month’s Rumpus Poetry Book Club pick).
Ames on “How to write a TV show, sort of.”
Our friend Jonathan Ames writes about his transition from plagiarizing college student to pretty damn successful TV writer.
“But Madame Bovary has already been translated.”
Lydia Davis explains why she decided to create a new translation of Madame Bovary. Read our recent interview with Lydia Davis here.
Shovelman: “Moonshine”
Dude plays a shovel like a guitar. He also played our most recent Rumpus in San Francisco. Read our writeup of him here.