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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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    Bill Murray Reading Poetry

    (via Vol. 1 Brooklyn)

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    Pete Turns 91

    In celebration of Pete Seeger’s 91st birthday we offer you Nell Boeschenstein‘s beautiful essay: “The Voice that Belongs to the Body.”

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    “The Inventiveness of Poets”

    “Without obvious fanfare, over the past 10 to 20 years a seismic change in publishing has occurred: Poetry has become our fastest-growing literary cottage industry, relying less on legions of editors in New York and elsewhere to shape literary tastes…

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    Bad Hair Contest

    Don’t forget about Steve Almond’s Bad Hair Museum, a Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life Contest. Click here for more details.

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    “The Artistic Lie”

    “In the short-story collection Elegy for a Fabulous World, her first book written in English, Romanian-born writer Alta Ifland conveys what it was like to grow up in Eastern Europe under Communism. Acknowledging the limitations of memory and claiming a…

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    Hot Off the Wire

    “The Associated Press said Thursday its net income plunged as revenue fell nearly 10 percent last year. The news cooperative also expects a decline in revenue this year, which would be its first back-to-back drop since the Great Depression.” Things…

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    “Papers, please.”
    Arizona News Links #3

    Donald Trump is still a dick. So is Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who arrested 61 people on suspicions that they are undocumented immigrants. “Arizona Expands Its Discrimination: Teachers With Heavy Accents Can’t Teach English, Ethnic Studies Are Banned.” Liliana Segura…

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    Tune of the Day

    Artist: Delorean Song: “Grow”

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    Vanishing Point

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    eBook Wars Continue

    “In the latest round of the book pricing wars, Amazon.com Inc. has begun selling a number of new hardcover books published this month by Pearson PLC’s Penguin Group (USA) for only $9.99 amid a dispute between the two companies over…

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    Dear Readers

    We just posted “DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #34” and it is, as always, fantastic. But without questions from readers such as yourself Sugar can’t give advice. So if you’ve got a hassle, a question, or a problem, be…

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    Nick McDonell in San Francisco

    Today we ran an excerpt from The End of Major Combat Operations by Nick McDonell. For those readers who live in San Francisco, McDonell will be reading from his book tonight (April 29) at Book Passage in the Ferry Building…