Cross-Dressing Vollmann
“As she works on me, I fall into a drowse, enjoying the caress of the black brush, the sound of rain outside, Yukiko standing over me. I gaze up at…
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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.
“One synonym for passion is a willingness to lie…”
“The world is not designed to make it easy for you to create and distribute your writing. You say what you have to say and do what you have to…
Alienation, Belonging, and History…
“In the strongest poems in Water the Moon, the complex relationships between language and image underscore Sze-Lorrain’s themes of alienation and homelessness in a way that allows the reader to…
“When Life Gives You Volcanoes, Make a Magazine”
Writer and editor Andrew Losowsky has come up with a pretty neat idea for all “designers, writers, photographers, illustrators, art directors and anyone else who is stranded by the ash…
Tune of the Day, R.I.P. Guru Edition
Artists: Gang Starr Song: “Work” “R.I.P. Guru of Gang Starr.”
“One man’s Shakespeare is another man’s trash fiction.”
“As to Hemingway, I read him for the first time in the early ‘forties, something about bells, balls and bulls, and loathed it.” That’s Vladimir Nabokov taking down Papa in…
“This is a nice way of saying we have lied.”
“If we are true to ourselves as dramatists, we will cheat and lie and pile one fraud upon the next, given that with every scene, we make fictional characters say…
Online Classes
Ever wanted to sit in on a class about moral reasoning and justice at Harvard? How about classical mechanics at M.I.T.? Hell, you must be curious about “Physics for Future…
Misadventure
“Millard Kaufman’s posthumously published novel is a comic-noir page-turner that is equal parts Elmore Leonard and Dashiell Hammett, with bits of Glengarry Glen Ross and Lolita thrown in for good…
Salon and McSweeney’s Sitting in a Tree…
Yesterday Salon announced a new partnership with McSweeney’s, stating that the online magazine will be “frequently running pieces and excerpts from the various McSweeney’s divisions — McSweeney’s Quarterly Journal, The…