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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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    “Will the iPad Matter?”

    Yesterday the question was posed, “Will the iPad help books go viral?” Well MelvilleHouse Publishing doesn’t think so. In fact, they’re wondering if the iPad will matter at all, predicting that “the Apple device and its accompanying iBookstore won’t be…

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    Louis Armstrong: “What A Wonderful World” (Death Metal Version)

    (via Peter Squires)

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    Soehnlein

    Tomorrow we have an interview with K.M. Soehnlein, award-winning author of The World of Normal Boys. For those of you who live in San Francisco, Soehnlein will be reading from his latest book, Robin and Ruby, at Books Inc. in the…

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    Books Going Viral?

    “Plenty have predicted that Apple’s tablet will decimate Amazon’s dominance over the ebook world and how, together, the two companies are screwing the publishers with tough dealmaking. Far fewer prognosticators have considered how smaller companies–and, in turn, authors–are going to benefit…

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    My New Job

    “If you’re a fan of experimentation, silliness, and fucking–and what reasonable human being isn’t?–you’ll find things to like about My New Job.” Check out Evan J. Peterson’s review of Catherine Wagner’s latest.

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    Tune of the Day

    Artists: Leisure Song: “It’s Alright (On the Suez Canal)” [Live]

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    Scarface Success

    The fact that the “Scarface School Play,” which we posted yesterday as a video interruption, was staged (no pun intended) should come as no surprise (plus, staged or not, those are still kids acting out scenes from Scarface). Mashable now…

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    Baseball, Writing, and Life

    In a recent interview with Cousins Reading Series, author (and Rumpus Contributor) Adam Gallari states “I think that the greatest analogy between baseball and writing, or even life for that matter, is that the game is designed for its players…

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    Sassy Gay Friend: Othello

    Things would’ve gone better for Desdemona if only she’d had a Gay Sassy Friend.

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    “Where I come from, nobody can afford to buy books.”

    John Edgar Wideman, author of Brothers and Keepers, not to mention a National Book Award finalist, winner of two PEN/Faulkner awards, and the recipient of a MacArthur genius grant, has decided to self-publish (albeit with Lulu, “the largest self-publisher in…

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    Tune of the Day

    Artist: Matthew Herbert Song: “Leipzig”

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    LitBlogging?

    The New York Times asks “Can a blog rise to the level of literature?” “The question is prompted by the arrival of José Saramago’s latest effort, The Notebook, which collects a series of blog posts that Saramago, the Portuguese Nobelist,…