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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.
Writing & Publishing the Novel
Do you live in the Bay Area? Do you like helping children? Do you need a lil’ help with that novel you’ve been working on (ok, thinking about)? Then you…
More Disch
“Disch’s take is that by living out the misery of our predecessors virtually, we can gain a bit more insight and compassion with regard to our misery and that of…
“A History of the Timeline”
“Cartographies of Time, published recently by Princeton Architectural Press, is an eye-popping record of the ways that mapmakers, chronologists, artists and others have tried to convey the passage of time…
“I thought, ‘Maybe I’ll be a writer who doesn’t publish’’’
“For three years, Paul Harding’s unpublished novel, Tinkers, sat in a drawer. The writer, a former Boston rock drummer who grew up in Wenham, had tried selling it, but nobody…
Forget “How-To” and Do
“My advice? Put the manuals and the how-to books away. Read the writers themselves, whose work and example are all you really need if you want to write.” Richard Bausch…
Comics as Poetry
PORNOGRAPHIC BARN OWL creator Ian Huebert celebrates National Poetry Month Rumpus comics style: “Ordnung.”
“There are many excellent stories that don’t interest me.”
“On Easter I signed up my first short story for the Paris Review. It’s by a young woman you’ve never heard of named April Ayers Lawson, and it’s an astonishment.…
The First Time Since 1981
“[Erika] Goldman is Editorial Director of Bellevue Literary Press, the tiny imprint behind Tinkers. To call it a surprise that Bellevue published a Pulitzer-winning novel — the first small press…
“More Than Poetry”
“Cradle Song is more than poetry. Stacey Lynn Brown has written a cultural history of the south, of its tenuous and tendentious relationships, of the complicated and often disturbing power…
Documenting Burroughs
“Each person can draw something completely different from him because he’s so multifaceted. I think it depends on the reader, but for me, I was first drawn to his awareness…