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Isaac Fitzgerald

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.
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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 Weekly says, “Almond deftly straddles the line between intellectual and…

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    The Spotnicks

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    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 writers of literature: “Please visit the new WILLA (Women in Letters…

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    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 submit a story of up to 1,000 words along with…

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    Snip Snip

    Want to know Michael Chabon’s feelings about circumcision? How about Neal Pollack’s? Andrew Sullivan’s? Christopher Hitchens’? What about California Rabbi Julie Adler’s? Well if so then the Mother Jones article “Much Ado About Cutting” is for you. Still not interested? What if…

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    Tune of the Day

    Artist: Marvin Gaye Song: “What’s Going On / What’s Happening Brother” Marvin Gaye would have turned 71 today.

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    “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 I was younger. The novel explores that theme. The song…

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    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 discounting new best-selling e-books…” Amazon takes yet another loss.

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    Notables

    For those of you in New York or San Francisco who are starting to make your weekend plans, don’t forget to check the Notable NYC or Notable SF, respectively, for all sorts of entertaining events. For example, tonight in New York?…

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    Internal

    Have you caught today’s PORNOGRAPHIC BARN OWL in the Rumpus Comics section? As usual Ian Huebert does amazing work, but this strip is extra special as it was written by Jesse Nathan. Be sure not to miss “Sonnet.”

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    Tune of the Day

    Artist: A.C. Newman Song: “Miracle Drug”

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    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 for the first time. “The dossier, in which Twain describes…