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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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    Major Security Issue Discovered at Facebook

    “Today I was tipped off that there is a major security flaw in the social networking site that, with just a few mouse clicks, enables any user to view the live chats of their ‘friends’. Using what sounds like a…

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    Cinco de Mayo

    Do not miss this special Cinco de Mayo message to Arizona from director Robert Rodriguez.

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    Happy Cinco de Mayo: Illegal Machete

    From Ain’t it Cool News: “Earlier today Robert Rodriguez and Danny Trejo dropped by my house with a package. Rodriguez is calling this his ‘Illegal’ trailer. You see, Robert talked Fox into letting him put together a Cinco De Mayo…

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    “13 Don’ts”

    “11. Don’t read more than 15 minutes. Any longer than that is a hostage situation.” Rumpus contributor Daniel Nester shares the lessons he learned while “writing, editing, marketing, and promoting” his book, How to Be Inappropriate, in a helpful list…

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    “A book about The First Book”

    “There’s much at stake in The First Book. The first-time author wishes to make a good impression and, if things work out, to seduce the reader. The reader, for his or her part, hopes to love the book but looks…

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    NewYorker.com

    “Some of my job is being the Web evangelist in the office – getting people involved and explaining why the Web is helpful to them and their story.” Sparksheet talks with Blake Eskin, The New Yorker‘s first web editor. (via…

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    Steve Almond’s Bad Hair Contest

    Want to win a free copy of Steve Almond’s excellent new book, Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life (read an excerpt here)? All you have to do is be brave enough to submit a picture of yourself rocking a…

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    Tune of the Day

    Artists: Cults Song: “Go Outside”

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    Maud’s Notes on Book Blogging

    “If you’d told me in 2002 that I would keep at it for so long or that so many people would know about this site or care what I had to say, I probably would’ve reacted the way I did…

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    40 Years Ago Today

    “The students who had gathered that day – all unarmed – held a large range of opinions about the seemingly endless war in Vietnam.” Elaine Holstein, mother of Jeffrey Miller, remembers the Kent State shootings 40 years after losing her…

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    Who Killed Bambi?

    “This, for the benefit of future rock historians, is the transcript of a screenplay I wrote in the summer of 1977.” Roger Ebert’s screenplay about the Sex Pistols, Who Killed Bambi? (originally titled Anarchy in the U.K.).

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    “They’re probably watching the news and wishing it were more about their bombing and less about the oil spill.”

    Today we published a review of David Goodwillie’s American Subversive by Eric B. Martin that it isn’t so much a review as an essay that tackles some really important questions about “literature, literary reviews, overstimulation, secret weapons, and 21st century…

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