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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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    “Unifying Theme”

    “Grann’s theme is the quest for darkness in its broadest form. Sometimes that quest is literal, as when he follows two men who spend their lives probing the ocean’s depths in search of giant squid. More often, the quest is…

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    Circle Tooth Beard

    Images by Jake Gillespie, Music by Nathan Gregg.

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    “To me it just seems like a bunch of people calling one another fancy names.”

    Jimmy Chen at HTMLGIANT admits that he gets “confused by all the kinds of editors there are.” So he has made a list; a hilarious list in which he guesses what it is different editors do:

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    Kyle Kinane’s “Ramblings Made Beautiful by Zak Smith”

    Rumpus contributor, author, artist, and porn performer Zak Smith has taken the words of Rumpus contributor and comedian Kyle Kinane and made them, to quote Kinane, “beautiful.” View the piece after the jump:

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    “Papers, please.”
    Arizona News Links

    A roundup of articles related to Arizona’s new draconian immigration law. “Wasn’t the system of internal passports one of the most distasteful features of life in the Soviet Union and apartheid-era South Africa?” Linda Greenhouse calls Arizona a “police state.”…

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    Literary Magazines, A Breakdown

    “For some time I’ve kept a private ranking that I’ve circulated amongst writer friends who were looking for places to submit. Enough of them have found it helpful that I’ve decided to make it public.” Rumpus contributor Lincoln Michel has…

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    Tune of the Day

    Artists: Gauntlet Hair Song: “I Was Thinking”

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    Sonderbar

    “The girl, from the southern town of Knin, had only just started studying German at school and had been reading German books and watching German TV to become better, but was by no means fluent, according to her parents. “Since…

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    A Book Review with Pie Charts

    “Reading these poems makes me want to write and this is a book that I will probably come back to often when I feel stuck or uninspired. The poems in you are a little bit happier than i am feel…

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    If you subscribed to The Daily Rumpus you’d be home by now

    Yesterday, editor Stephen Elliott sent out a particularly long Daily Rumpus. Most of these aren’t published online. If you’d like to get them via email you have to subscribe.

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    Koichiro Tsujikawa – “Eyes”

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    “Disruption is often the element that keeps us from finishing a chapter, a story, or a line.”

    “In the House is a book full of windows, of grammatical shapes and designs. Plot, conflict, resolutions, prepositions, stairwells, walls, cabinets. The kick-off story leads us to enter the book as though it is a house—one in which each room…