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