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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.
Talking $$$ and Writing
Yesterday our own Elissa Bassist wrote a mini-manifesto encouraging writers to “write to get paid.” Today the comments on the piece have gotten interesting. Why not join the discussion?
“Dear Mr. Updike”
25 years ago, when he was 28, Nicholson Baker wrote a fan letter to John Updike. (via GoodJobbb)
Summer Loving
Summer, a time for skirts, sun screen, and seriously cheap McSweeney’s books. That’s right, the “once-a-year, potentially ill-advised” Summer sale offered by the San Francisco based publishing house starts today,…
Auto-Tune the News #12: Weed. Lesbian Allegaytions.
Read “The Rumpus Mini-Interview with The Gregory Brothers.”
Rumpus Book Club on Twitter
You can now follow The Rumpus Book Club on Twitter. Also, Book Club members, if you tweet about the club why not add a #RumpusBookClub hash tag? Just saying. Click…
Director of Piracy (Not Really)
Publisher Macmillan posted a very interesting job listing yesterday that is a sign of the times: Digital Piracy Director. (via PW)
Jose Saramago
Portuguese novelist Jose Saramago, author of Blindness and winner of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1998, has died at the age of 87. (via @thebookslut)