“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…
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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.
“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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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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.
“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…