The Big Jewcy
Our pal Jason Diamond has been busy compiling The Big Jewcy, a list of 100 people that the good folks at Jewcy feel deserve to be recognized. The list includes…
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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.
What Books Changed Your World?
The story behind everyone’s favorite hash tag: #booksthatchangedmyworld. Also, read our own Brian Spears‘ ruminations on books that changed his world (note: it’s longer than 140 characters), and let us…
Dunn Talks Shop
“Non-fiction is a big responsibility. Rationality. Facts. The urgent need to reflect some small aspect of reality. But fiction is a private autism, a self-referential world in which the writer…
A Very Expensive Typewriter
Not that any of us can afford it, but Jack Kerouac’s last typewriter, a green Hermes 3000, is on the auction block at Christie’s. How do you folks feel about…
Happy Bloomsday!
“I began wondering. If Ulysses was the Jewish Ulysses—and the Irish Ulysses, too, one would think—shouldn’t other cultures have Ulyssi of their own? Having worked as a weekly book reviewer,…
Graphic Joyce
“The question of whether James Joyce’s Ulysses is obscene seemed to have been settled for more than 75 years. Until last week, that is, when the creators of a Web…
Font Humor
“People love me. Why? Because I’m fun. I’m the life of the party. I bring levity to any situation. Need to soften the blow of a harsh message about restroom…
Ballard’s Secret Archive
“When asked, author J.G. Ballard told interviewers that he had no papers to be donated. ‘There are no Ballard archives,’ he said plainly in 1982. ‘I never keep letters, reviews,…