A Happy Ending
A few days ago the Park Department of Chicago attempted to shut down Gabriel Levinson’s Book Bike, “a custom-built tricycle stocked with 200 lbs of free books” that is “responsible…
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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.
Sugar Love
“Sugar, whomever she is, one of the best writers I’ve read as of late. Each time I read her writing, I think of Creative Nonfiction’s recent call for narrative blog…
Dmitry Chestnykh’s “I Write Like”
A lot of folks (including us) have been talking about “I Write Like,” the website that tells you “which famous writer you write like” using a “statistical analysis tool.” Sure…
Citrus County in the NYTBR
The Times has posted a wonderful review of John Brandon’s Citrus County (last month’s Rumpus Book Club pick) by Daniel Handler. Not enough John Brandon for you? Why not read…
“Let’s Talk, Paul Madonna”
“I never know what to call myself really. I call myself a cartoonist because it’s what I’ve wanted to do for as long as I can remember, it’s what I…
Bradon Reads Citrus County
The folks at Square Books have posted a recording of John Brandon reading from his novel Citrus County. Citrus County was our first Rumpus Bookclub pick. You can read the…
Fishkind on Yates
“i read the novel quickly, mostly in bed and in the library over the next 24 hours. i liked pretty much everything about the book.” David Fishkind reviews Tao Lin’s…
Three Poems by Randall
Poet and Rumpus pal Randall Mann has posted three poems over at The Nepotist.