Posts by author
Isaac Fitzgerald
-
Lemony Snicket Talks Nonfiction
“Mother Jones: Which nonfiction book do you foist upon all of your friends and relatives? Why? “Daniel Handler: Lately I’ve been giving people How To Cure A Fanatic by Amos Oz, a thoughtful, optimistic, and witty treatise on solving problems…
-
“For many college aspirants, loans and grants aren’t within reach”
ScholarMatch is an important new project from the folks at 826 National that matches potential donors with gifted young scholars who need help paying for college. It is a fantastic program, and though ScholarMatch is currently limited to students in…
-
A “Twallenge”
Author and broadcaster Frank Delaney has announced a “Twallenge” on Twitter. Want to participate? All you have to do is “tweet the first 140 characters of the novel you most want to write” to @FDbytheword. Winners will receive an audiobook…
-
“A Note to Parents”
“I am a storyteller. I write books for kids, I talk to kids, and I listen to kids. But that is not all that I am. Several years ago I was diagnosed as obsessive-compulsive and manic-depressive. Those challenges have led…
-
eBook Wars
“Lab 126, the division of Amazon responsible for building the Kindle, has been on a hiring binge, with dozens of new job listings on its Web site. Some are positions for testing and readying new products. And this suggests that…
-
Pitt on Parker and Parker on Pitt
The Rumpus assigned “dueling reviews” to the authors of two new short story collections. It didn’t really work out so well. Part I and Part II
-
“There are many versions of Emily Dickinson to choose from.”
“I was a bookish, verse-writing odd-fit kid with authority issues, looking for a hero. By a hero I mean someone you admire but, more than that, identify with and somehow want to be. In Dickinson I found what I was…