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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.
Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #34
Doug, I’m sweating and having trouble breathing. A what? Don’t be so melodramatic. If anything it’s a Big Mac attack. Be a pal and go get me the cure, yeah?…
Annals of Advertising: Here’s the Party Freak
(via Swishy Kids) More from the annals of advertising.
Each morning I pack drift around my tongue
“The peculiarities of polar exploration are rich with distinctive details and she uses them to great effect.” Jennifer Jefferson reviews Elizabeth Bradfield’s second collection of poems, Approaching Ice.
More Bad News for Facebook
“In a seemingly never-ending string of damaging disclosures about its inattention to users’ privacy concerns, the social-media site Facebook has reportedly been releasing user data to ad companies that hadn’t…
“Know that you won’t be a different person when you get a book deal.”
“It is not a race. Okay? I’m going to repeat that because it is so, so important: It is not a race. It does not matter what age you are…
“Many authors have waited their whole lives for a nod from the gray lady.”
“My view is very much eastern, very much old school, where a book review from the Times was the only sure sign that an author had arrived. But maybe it’s…
Musical Prose and Multiple Perspectives
“It is a family saga of mothers and daughters; a deconstruction of the Little-House-on-the-Veldt romanticism in which noble white settlers tame a hostile land; a massive, wrenching catalog of illness…
Swinging in China
“In private, the professor, Ma Yaohai, 53, led a life that became intolerable to Chinese authorities: for the past six years, he was a member of informal swingers clubs that…
Tune of the Day
Artists: The Size Queens Song: “Twenty Minutes” [We won’t lie, we really love this song and The Size Queens]