NYC and SF Readers
New York readers, are you looking for something to do tonight? Why not check out Maile Chapman discussing her debut novel, Your Presence is Requested at Suvanto? The event will…
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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.
“I don’t remember my first kiss.”
“Page after page, Bobcat Country stirs both the counter-intuitively satisfying ‘Should I be reading this?’ queasiness of the Confessional poetry of Berryman, Sexton, and Snodgrass, and the unsettlingly provocative “Is…
Books Behind Bars
“Another day of volunteering at Rikers Island with the NYPL has come to a close. Thursday I went to one of the male detention houses along with my mentor and two other staff members…
Kipling on Clemens
Mark Twain died one hundred years ago on this date, so you’ll have to forgive us for mentioning the great author twice in one day. The Library of America has…
“Unsung Giant of the Civil Rights Era”
“If Ms. Height was less well known than her contemporaries in either the civil rights or women’s movement, it was perhaps because she was doubly marginalized, pushed offstage by women’s…
Anonymous Attacks
“An extraordinary literary ‘whodunnit’ over the identity of a mystery reviewer who savaged works by some of Britain’s leading academics on the Amazon website has culminated in a top historian…
“A writing-life is not a life.”
“In the immediate days following Ray’s death, I did not teach. Colleagues urged that I take more time off, even the entire semester, but I was eager to return to…
Mark Twain, Literary Critic
“He was less well-known, but no less talented, as a literary critic. Proof of it has resided, mostly unnoticed, in a small library in Redding, Conn., where hundreds of his…
William S. Burroughs in Lawrence
Burroughs in his Kansas home with “Patti Smith, Steve Buscemi, Allen Ginsberg, and various cats.” (via Jewcy)
“The pain, confusion, absurdity, and humor of grief…”
“How and what we tell ourselves about our lives matters. The words we choose matter, and how we shape the story matters.” Grace Talusan reviews Katherine Shonk’s debut novel, Happy…
Further Loss of Control
“Today, Facebook removed its users’ ability to control who can see their own interests and personal information. Certain parts of users’ profiles, “including your current city, hometown, education and work,…