“A Universal Orphan Fantasy”
“Even the happiest child imagines at some point that she actually belongs with the fairies.” Michelle Huneven interviews Leslie Jamison, author of The Gin Closet.
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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.
Gil Scott-Heron in 1976
MP3s of Gil Scott-Heron live at the Village Gate in New York City circa 1976. (via @largeheartedboy) Update: Don’t miss “Winter in America: A Musical Lamentation Offered on the Passing…
Memorial Day Morning Coffee
Happy Memorial Day! We won’t be updating the site as often as usual today, as it is a holiday, but make sure not to miss Steve Almond’s “Musical Lamentation Offered…
“I Once Got Paid $100 a Word”
Richard Morgan on the ups and downs of his “Seven Years as a Freelance Writer.”
Google at BEA
“By far, the most common way for readers to find out about new books and authors is by browsing in a physical store.” Publisher’s Weekly covers Google’s panel discussion at…
@LeopoldBloom
Considering that Ulysses was originally published in serial form by The Little Review starting in 1918, it seems rather fitting that “James Joyce’s modernist masterpiece” is getting “a Twitter makeover.”
How to Promote Your Book
Alina Simone, Eugene Mirman, and Rumpus editor Stephen Elliott have perfected the art of marketing.
lost e.e. cummings
“The folder contained undated letters from the poet E.E. Cummings to Thayer, early versions of a couple Cummings’ poems and one poem by Cummings I couldn’t remember ever seeing before.”…
Mulholland Drive, the TV Show
Did you know that the film Mulholland Drive was originally going to be a television pilot for ABC? And that now, thanks to a man named Mike Dunn, you can…