Female Punks
“Punk was something you did rather than listened to, or admired. It was about being that person yourself, rather than standing back and thinking that somebody else was great.” Cazz…
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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.
“Nancy Drew’s Sexy Secrets”
“The girls accordingly enjoyed themselves by admiring each other’s dainty lingerie, choosing the stockings which would best match slippers and frocks, and so for a time forgot the mystery. Helen…
“Central question: Love: good thing or bad thing?”
“Three Delays is so stunningly composed, so wildly, implausibly, excessively written, that it makes the entire shelf of novels from the last generation superfluous. The story? The characters devour the…
Zak Smith Does Blood Meridian
Rumpus contributor and all around awesome writer/artist Zak Smith, in collaboration with “Sean McCarthy, John Mejias, Craig Taylor, Shawn Cheng, and Matt Wiegle,” has a new project: “Six Versions of…
48 Hour Magazine
48 Hour Magazine is now available online. The project, “which was just a concept 14 days ago,” was a complete success, with over 1,502 submissions. A very special (albeit somewhat…
Private Social Networking
“Four students at New York University’s Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences want to create an alternative to current social media that lets users better control their privacy.” Facebook, meet Diaspora,…
“How did you become a rock ‘n’ roller, anyway?”
“Truth? I was broke. I got into rock because it was enjoyable way of making my money and taking four or five years to puzzle my next move out. I…
“Sir Jinx is on the top right, wearing all black…”
Ever wonder what happened to the posse members featured on the cover of the 1987 album N.W.A. and the Posse? Well, thanks to the LA Weekly, you no longer have…
Free Serial
Pop Serial, a limited-edition print magazine edited by Stephen Tully Dierks and “starring Tao Lin, Joshua Cohen, Brandon Scott Gorrell, Zachary German, Nic*Rad, Kendra Grant Malone, and many more” can…