iBooks Aren’t Moving Fast
“When it comes to buying apps in the iTunes App Store, books are the most widely available, but they’re also the apps least likely to be purchased, according to Apptizr,…
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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.
Because It’s Friday…
We’re not ones to mention Stephen Colbert (there are plenty of sites that have reposting the man’s work covered), but Rumpus contributor Lincoln Michel, author of one of our most…
Rejected Chris Ware
Paul Constant at The Stranger says it best: “Everybody knows that Chris Ware is a genius, but his rejected cover for Fortune‘s 500th issue is some kind of satiric masterpiece.”…
We ♥ Books
“This is what’s so frustrating when you talk to people in the mainstream publishing industry. They’re so sure no one loves books anymore–because the corporate accountants are telling them they…
Tune of the Day
Artists: Caitlin Cary & Thad Cockrell Song: “Conversations About a Friend (Who’s in Love with Katie)”
If You Don’t Have Anything Nice to Say… Say It on the Internet
In Taffy Broedesser-Akner’s New York Times piece “E-Playgrounds Can Get Vicious” she tells the story of writing an online article about Postpartum Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, which she experienced firsthand, only…
“Publishing exists in a continual state of forecasting its own demise…”
Ken Auletta, who has written the Annals of Communications column for The New Yorker since 1992, has a new article that takes an in-depth look at the war between Amazon…
An Electric Literature Single Sentence Animation
Artist Adam Thompson‘s interpretation of Rumpus columnist Rick Moody‘s short story, “Some Contemporary Characters.”
Beautiful Science
“NASA’s recently launched Solar Dynamics Observatory, or SDO, is returning early images that confirm an unprecedented new capability for scientists to better understand our sun’s dynamic processes.” Ok, we can’t…
Hevisaurus!
This is a metal band for kids made up of dinosaurs. Yes, we are considering moving to Finland. (via dlisted)