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About time: “Feds open criminal probe of Gulf oil spill.” Director James Cameron, “considered an expert on underwater filming and remote vehicle technologies,” met with scientists and officials from federal…
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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.
Andrei Voznesensky
“Mr. Voznesensky and poets like Yevgeny Yevtushenko, Bella Akhmadulina and Robert Rozhdestvensky burst onto the stage in the cultural ‘thaw’ that followed Stalin’s death in 1953 and rose to extraordinary…
“Quietly and with confidence.”
“As if to say it’s risky, unknowable business, this living we do. As if to say all the fragile creatures of Boggs’s world—parents, children, husbands, and wives—dodge what dangers they…
WTF Marc Maron
“It was pretty impulsive. I’d been fired again at Air America. My partner Brendan who was my producer for years on radio and on the internet, tv, we’d just lost…
“But a quarterly only comes out… well, you know.”
Lorin Stein, the new editor of The Paris Review, announces the launch of The Paris Review Daily, the quarterly’s new blog.
Good News Out of NOLA
“The lack of secure bicycle parking was the motivation for Where Ya’ Rack?, a new program that aims to increase the number of racks around the city through sponsorships and…
Louise Bourgeois
“Ms. Bourgeois’s sculptures in wood, steel, stone and cast rubber, often organic in form and sexually explicit, emotionally aggressive yet witty, covered many stylistic bases. But from first to last…
Memorial Day
“It’s impossible for me, sitting at such enormous distance from the war in Vietnam, to understand the impact it had on those involved. Memorial Day is intended to be an…
Paper Trail
“I truly believe that we are at a critical crossroads in publishing. As the attention, bandwidth and energy of publishing turns to e-books, we are concerned that what is currently…