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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.
Review of Ten “Blogging Platforms”
Tao Lin reviews ten blogging platforms (xanga, blogger, wordpress, livejournal, deadjournal, open diary, typepad, moveable type, wheatblog, tumblr) using such descriptions as “discovered at the bottom of a ‘deceptively pond-like,…
“Above All, a Love Story”
“If you could hold a seashell to your ear and hear an account of a poet’s life, it might have the exquisite depth and simplicity of Michael Sledge’s The More…
Listen to Walcott
Listen to poet Derek Walcott recite Walter de la Mare‘s “Fare Well,” as well as read his own “The Hulls of White Yachts” from White Egrets. (via The Book Bench)…
July’s Monthly Rumpus
Today! Do you have your tickets yet? July 12th at The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, 7pm in San Francisco. Featuring authors Justine Sharrock, Matt Stewart, Eli Horowitz w/ Mac…
“You can never, ever, read this book, okay?”
Rumpus contributor Elmo Keep remembers her relationship with her father and Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho.
The Rumpus Is a Place for Poets
Today we have an excellent Rumpus Original (Supersized) Combo, featuring an interview with Marsh Hawk Press Poetry Prize winner Neil de la Flor, a review of his collection Almost Dorothy,…
“The Interview was not a happy invention.”
“No one likes to be interviewed, and yet no one likes to say no; for interviewers are courteous and gentle-mannered, even when they come to destroy.” A previously unpublished essay…