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Isaac Fitzgerald

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.
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    Lists Mocking Lists

    “7 Awesome Ways Barnyard Animals Are Like Communism” McSweeney’s re-titles some literary classics in the name of boosting web traffic.

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    The Daily Who What?

    Stephen Elliott’s Daily Rumpus emails are getting more regular, but also stranger. You can subscribe here.

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    Anxious Expo

    “As the book industry gathered for its annual convention in New York this week, it had plenty to be nervous about: the threat of piracy, the decline of brick-and-mortar stores and the perhaps-too-low price of e-books.” The New York Times…

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    Keillor Talk

    There is an excellent, and at times heated, conversation about publishing, writing, and nostalgia going on in the comments section of our response piece concerning Garrison Keillor’s recent NY Times op-ed. Join the debate here.

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    Is Adobe Dying?

    “The bottom line? Adobe Books, as it exists now, will not exist in a year or so.” At the just launched Bay Citizen Reyhan Harmanci reports on the unsure future of one of San Francisco’s favorite independent bookstores.

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    A Second Set of Eyes

    “This wide disparity in editing editorial content isn’t wildly surprising; the disparity has grown markedly over the last decade, and certainly the blogosphere making each one of us our own editors has taught us new uneasy conventions. We’ve gained a…

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    Running on Empty

    “Inspired by Matt Logue’s Empty L.A.” More info here. (via Flavorwire)

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    “Facebook Announces New Privacy Features”

    “The theme here is clearly ‘simple’ — an easier way to stop sharing information with people, websites and applications that you don’t want to have access.” Facebook does some damage control.

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    “Graphic Novel”

    “I thought it would never catch on. It’s a terrible term. They’re not novels; most of them are memoirs, in fact. ‘Graphic’ implies an illustrated novel; that’s not what it is. I just thought people would say, ‘It’s a comic…

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    Tune of the Day

    Artists: Wiley (featuring Jodie Connor & J2K) Song: “Electric Boogaloo (Find A Way)”

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    Sam Lipsyte at HTMLGIANT

    Tomorrow, Thursday May 27, at 9pm EST (6pm PST) Sam Lipsyte will give a live, online reading from his book The Ask over at HTMLGIANT. The reading will be followed by a question and answer period. Mark your calender!

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    Flarf

    “Flarf is a creature of the electronic age. The flarf method typically involves using word combinations turned up in Google searches, and poems are often shared via email. When one poet penned a piece after Googling ‘peace” + “kitty,’ another…