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Zoë Ruiz
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All the Buzz
As Stephen Elliott pointed out, people just can’t stop talking about new Buzzfeed books editor Isaac Fitzgerald. Roxane Gay wrote that Isaac is going to be “an intelligent and eminently capable editor.” This isn’t the first time that Roxane has written about his editorial…
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Isaac is Buzzfeed’s First Books Editor
Brace yourself, San Francisco. Former Rumpus managing editor and current Rumpus co-owner Isaac Fitzgerald is moving to New York City to become BuzzFeed’s first books editor. What will this new books section look like? He foresees a section built on “shareable content” and…
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Welcome Jonterri Gadson!
We’re thrilled to introduce Jonterri Gadson, the newest addition to our Rumpus team! Jonterri is our assistant poetry editor and will be helping out with all things related to original poetry! She is a magnificent poet and person and we think…
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A Scary Story with Lauren O’Neal
Listen to our very own editorial assistant Lauren O’Neal read her story “The Thing About Ghosts” on the Story Tapes podcast. After her story, she talks with host Eliza Smith about how her approach to flash fiction allows readers to extrapolate the…
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Links I Like
This week Stephen Elliott announced that I’m now managing editor for The Rumpus. I am so happy (beyond happy) to be taking on this new role.
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Links I Like
I’m back in Los Angeles! Yesterday I got coffee with Jim Gavin and Homer, the basset hound he’s pet sitting. Unlike me, Jim doesn’t usually pet sit. He usually writes and teaches and if you’ve been reading this column, you…
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Links I Like
On Monday night at 826LA, J. Ryan Stradal and McSweeney’s organized a reading to celebrate Lucy Corin’s One Hundred Apocalypses and Victoria Chang’s The Boss. Those two books are now on my to-read list. Although that to-read list gets longer…
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Links I Like
Remember when your Rumpus Sunday Editor Gina published fiction? She published Tom Kealy’s Nobody and Allison Amend’s The Stench. Stephen Elliott explained, “We don’t publish fiction on The Rumpus. But on Sunday Gina takes over and she can do whatever…
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Links I Like
I texted my friend at midnight: Are you still at the party? My friend said she still was there, she was in the garden, and there were a lot of familiar faces. I showed up and she was right, there…
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Links I Like
I’m rereading Tom Kealy’s The Creative Writing MFA Handbook, which means I’m thinking of applying to graduate school. When I was in San Francisco, I met Tom Kealy and would run into him from time to time in the Mission…
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Links I Like
I’ve been thinking and reading a lot about the Zimmerman verdict. I recommend Roxane Gay’s How America Profiled Trayvon Martin and Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and Karen Bender’s What Great Writing Can Teach Us About Trayvon Martin. Read bell hooks Was Right.…