Phone Calls With Harvey
“I started reading Harvey Pekar’s comic book series American Splendor in high school, when I was anxious about my future and frustrated by my present. Little did I know then,…
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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.
Look at How Much Fun We’re Having
We had a fantastic Rumpus at The Make-Out Room in San Francisco last week. Couldn’t make it (don’t live in the Bay Area)? Don’t worry, Timothy Faust took some amazing…
“I Am So Freaked Out By LA”
“There is warped violence in this Los Angeles-set book that, from very early on, shocked me.” Todd Zuniga reviews Bret Easton Ellis’ latest novel, Imperial Bedrooms.
What Books Haven’t You Read?
“Full disclosure: I’ve certainly referred, in newspaper copy, to books with which I have, shall we say, a fairly distant relationship. Now I’m going deeper into the confessional.” Robert McCrum…
“Why We Created the Atomic Bomb.”
“Had I known that the fear was not justified, I would not have participated in opening this Pandora’s box […] For my distrust of governments was not limited to Germany.…
Top Secret
“The top-secret world the government created in response to the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, has become so large, so unwieldy and so secretive that no one knows how…
Talking About the Book Bike
Over the weekend we told you the story of how Chicago’s Park Department tried to shutdown Gabriel Levinson’s Book Bike, only to have its efforts thwarted (thanks in part to…
Science Saturday Link
Poetry/Saturday editor extraordinaire Brian Spears is taking a much deserved break today. With Brian on hiatus we knew that weekend readers would be missing their Science Saturday links, so we…
Interested in Fiction?
“Anybody interested in fiction should probably read this interview with David Means.” So says Jonathan Pappas, and, while we must admit we’re biased, we do agree with him.