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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.
“Under the Influence”
“Carson McCullers, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter (1940) Hot tea and sherry “Raymond Chandler, The Blue Dahlia (1946) Gimlets and vitamin shots “Honoré de Balzac, La Comédie humaine (1829-1848)…
Library of Congress to Collect All Tweets
“Library to acquire ENTIRE Twitter archive — ALL public tweets, ever, since March 2006! Details to follow.” The message above was tweeted this morning by @librarycongress, the The Library of…
Loud Libraries
Yesterday we mentioned that it’s National Library Week, a time to celebrate all things bibliotheca. But author Sung J. Woo is using the week in a more somber way, to…
The Journalist and the Autobiography
“Memory is not a journalist’s tool. Memory glimmers and hints, but shows nothing sharply or clearly. Memory does not narrate or render character. Memory has no regard for the reader.…
More Bolaño
“I’ll tell you everything, naturally.” The New Yorker has posted “Prefiguration of Lalo Cura,” a short story by Roberto Bolaño, online. Enjoy. (via PW)
“It’s amazing how much human nature hasn’t really changed all that much.”
The Wall Street Journal takes a look at “Twitter Updates, the 18th Century Edition.” Apparently, before the late 1800s, “diaries weren’t considered private or introspective. Instead, people wrote semi-public diaries…