Look Okasan, No Publisher
Japanese author Ryu Murakami plans on side-stepping the “traditional publishing industry” and releasing his next novel, with the help of a software company, exclusively on the iPad. Murakami says he…
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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.
Every Tarkovsky Film
“[Andrei] Tarkovsky for me is the greatest [director], the one who invented a new language, true to the nature of film, as it captures life as a reflection, life as…
“I always just wanted to do comics.”
John Forrester profiles artist and musician Jeffrey Lewis. (Read the Rumpus interview with Lewis here.)
Happy Bastille Day
Andrew Leland, managing editor of The Believer, has reviewed Matt Stewart’s The French Revolution. Stewart, you may remember, originally published his novel on Twitter last year. (via @elittl) Update: If…
A Conversation with Shya Scanlon
“I’m pretty much a maintenance addict at this point. If I don’t write, I feel useless and pathetic. That’s not to say I don’t experience occasional bursts of joy or…
Mohr Issues
“My ex-wife once called my writing ‘the lesser of two evils.’ The other evil she was talking about was our sex life.” L Magazine talks to author and Rumpus contributor…
“I wanted to really shatter some of the stereotypes…”
Jillian Lauren, author of Some Girls: My Life in a Harem and recent Rumpus Radio guest, talks with Twanna A. Hines over at SMITH mag and submits her own six-word…
“Lyric poetry, after all, was first written for the lyre.”
“He’s been writing in rhyme and meter — which is to say, formal verse — for decades.” Jim Fisher argues that singer/songwriter John Darnielle, of Mountain Goats fame, is a…