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Rumpus contributor Steve Almond‘s fantastic new book, Rock and Roll Will Save Your Life, is now available for pre-order. Bonus? The book comes with a truly bitchin’ soundtrack. Need more? Publishers…
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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.
WILLA or Won’t Ya?
The following is a friendly message from Rumpus contributer Susan Steinberg (who is performing at the April Rumpus event in San Francisco) about WILLA, a new organization for and about women…
Lose $15, Win a Grand?
The Sonora Review is offering a prize of $1,000 plus publication for the best story submitted to its Short Short Contest. With Joe Wenderoth judging, all you need to do is…
Tune of the Day
Artist: Marvin Gaye Song: “What’s Going On / What’s Happening Brother” Marvin Gaye would have turned 71 today.
“H-U-S-T-L-E-R, Hustler.”
“2. ‘Fuck Armageddon…This is Hell’ by Bad Religion “Jehovah’s Witnesses believe God is killing over 7 billion people at any second who aren’t JWs. I actually believed in it when…
Amazon Is on the eRopes
“Publishers have emerged victorious in the e-book pricing war with Amazon. The world’s largest online retailer has conceded to the demands of three major publishing houses and will cease heavily…
The King and the Lioness
So Mark Twain’s personal life? Complicated: “Documents known as a ‘blackmail dossier’ that expose the intimate secrets of Mark Twain, the author of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, are to published…