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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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    Another Friday…

    another reason to love David Simon.

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    “Pi”

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    Atlantic ♥

    Atlantic senior editor Ta-Nehisi Coates calls Alex Gallo-Brown’s recent “Where I Write” essay “awesome sauce.” Thanks Coates, we love you back! Update: You can read our interview with Ta-Nehisi Coates here.

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    3-Way Street

    (via MeFi)

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    “Freewheeling Essays, to Be Consumed With a Cocktail”

    “The excellent thing about Between Parentheses is how thoroughly it dispels any incense or stale reverence in the air. It’s a loud, greasy, unkempt thing.” Dwight Garner at The New York Times reviews Between Parentheses, a collection of Roberto Bolaño’s…

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    Bye Bye, Boss

    “Jesus spent three days in Hell. … I could only handle one.” Jack Shafer has published a collection of what “fired or resigned journalists wrote to their bosses on the way out” (the quote above is from Richard Morgan, “who…

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    Jill Abramson

    “Jill Abramson, a former investigative reporter who rose to prominence as a Washington correspondent and editor, will become the next executive editor of The New York Times, succeeding Bill Keller, who is stepping down to become a full-time writer for…

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    YouTube, Books, and Awards

    The 2011 Moby Awards, which celebrate the “best and worst book trailers,” have been announced.

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    Thumbs Up for Rock and Roll!

    (via @PETER_SQUIRES)

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    AABA

    Ladies and gentlemen, “The 2011 Arab-American Book Award Winners.”

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    George Lippard, Online

    In his essay “There Is a Head Rolling Over the Platform: The Strange Case of George Lippard’s The Quaker City” Rumpus columnist Nicholas Rombes writes that Lippard’s “best novels churn up something far weirder and super-black India inky than even…

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    VIDA’s “Best American Count”

    VIDA has released its “Best American Count,” which examines the gender imbalance found within “the Best American anthologies in poetry, fiction, and essays.” Update: Women who have been included in Best American collections discuss VIDA’s count.