“Art is Just Absolutely Magic”
You can listen to audio tracks from David Lipsky’s interview with David Foster Wallace, in which DFW talks everything from art being magic to quitting his job as a towel…
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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.
Poet Number 17
82-year-old William S. Merwin has been named the 17th U.S. Poet Laurette. You can find a whole bunch of poems by Merwin here. (Also, guess what? We now have Rumpus…
“You need something.
“I report as a machine; I write as a person. That clear dichotomy softens the transition.” Reporter extraordinaire Gene Weingarten talks with Mother Jones about his latest collection, writing, and…
“How do you envisage the ideal reader of your own novels?”
“I don’t envision any ‘ideal readers’—or any readers at all, I suppose. My imagination doesn’t work in that way. My concentration is turned inward, upon the work itself—beyond its perimeters,…
For the Record…
Jolie Holland and Rick Moody are still having a conversation in the comments section of the latest Swinging Modern Sounds.
“Oh Poverty”
“A decade of working my ass off as a writer and look what I’ve got to show for it. “And please don’t say books. On a shelf. In a library.…
The Road to Echo Park
“Now seems as good a time as any to take stock of my road to publication as some of you who are reading this may be unpublished writers who want…