The Borders Comment
Is Borders threatening not to stock The Adderall Diaries? Is this commenter to be believed? Update: This has been fact checked. The commenter does indeed manage a Borders.
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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.
Book Recs Gone Bad
“But what about when someone presses a book on you, assuring you that you’ll simply adore it … and you don’t? Worse – you hate the thing, and can’t understand…
Francisconi on Yates
Be sure not to miss Rumpus Book Club member John Francisconi’s essay “Tao Lin, Richard Yates, & Me.”
The 19th Amendment Turns 90
“The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.” So says…
The Teklanika Takes Another
In a twisted turn of fate Alaska’s Teklanika River, the same river that trapped Christopher McCandless (made famous by Jon Krakauer’s book Into the Wild), has claimed another young adventurer.…
Ray Bradbury Sounds Off
“We should go to the moon and prepare a base to fire a rocket off to Mars and then go to Mars and colonize Mars. Then when we do that,…
Two Things Tao
1. The New York Observer profiles Tao: “Tao Lin Will Have the Scallops.” 2. Canteen posts the full text of Tao’s essay “The Great American Dialogue About the New Yorker’s…
Flexible Authors
Yoga dudes Neal Pollack (today’s Rumpus interviewee) and Mark Morford will be in conversation at the Swedish American Hall in San Francisco this Thursday. Litquake, who is hosting the event,…
Advice From Bolaño
“With every day that passes, I am more convinced that the act of writing is a conscious act of humility.” Diego Trelles Paz shares a “brief epistolary electronic exchange” he…