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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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    The Cult and Tao Lin

    “I don’t think I ever unsarcastically ‘force myself’ to do something, in that I try not to think in terms of ‘have to.’ For example I try not to say or think, ‘I have to go to work’ or ‘I…

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    Remember

    “You have legal rights, but many police will not respect your rights.” Some helpful advice about what to do when dealing with police. (via HTMLGIANT)

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    “The Lottery”

    “Nearly a generation before The Feminine Mystique, Jackson’s stories explore the claustrophobia that often accompanies marriage and motherhood, and the desperation to which it might drive a woman.” Ruth Franklin at The New Republic on Shirley Jackson and “the challenge…

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    This Is My Fucking Single Body Heat Video by Andrew Lee

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    Don’t Forget

    Don’t forget to sign up for The Rumpus Book Club: One Rumpus, One Book, launched today and featuring Citrus County by John Brandon, forthcoming from McSweeney’s. Many readers have already joined!

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    “I THINK I WANT TO EAT YOUR SMILE TONIGHT”

    “Daniel Bailey is a genius. Daniel Bailey’s poems may or may not be genius and that is precisely the reason why Daniel Bailey is, in fact, a genius.” Joseph Goosey reviews Bailey’s The Drunk Sonnets.

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    Tune of the Day

    Artist: Lil B Song: “Real Life”

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    The Harvard Grifter

    Adam Wheeler is a 23 year-old Harvard Senior “who was indicted Monday for falsifying information in his applications to Harvard and for several scholarships.” Wheeler has pleaded not guilty to “20 counts, including larceny (he received nearly $50,000 in scholarships…

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    “Sharp, Perfectly Rendered Pieces”

    “Emma Straub’s Fly-Over State is a lovely little slip of a book, small in scale—it weighs in at 77 pages—but not in depth.” Emily St. John Mandel reviews Fly-Over State.

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    FWIW

    “We are living in a moment of seismic linguistic change, and attention should be paid—but not to errors. Our changing language signals evolution, not degradation. ‘OK,’ the most popular American word in the world, was invented during the age of…

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    Question of the Day

    What is “One Rumpus. One Book.”?

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    Go Figure

    A scientific study from 1996 shows that out of a group made up of 35 “homophobic men” and 29 “nonhomophobic men” (“they were assigned to groups on the basis of their scores on the Index of Homophobia”) who were shown…