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From the monthly archives: June 2011

Morning Bites: Ten Thousand Saints, book making videos, threatening Bloomberg, and more

On June 23, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Afternoon Bites: Liveright, Jesse Bell, Grantland, and more

On June 22, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

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Here are three free literary events we’re producing

On June 22, 2011 By Jason Diamond

To celebrate all this talk about events, Vol. 1 has decided to host three free events in a ten day period starting on July 6th. Granted, we planned and announced these events weeks ago, but we figure there is never a bad time to capitalize on a popular discussion.

On July 6th, Vol. 1 Brooklyn along with the Jewish Book Council, and Jewcy are presenting The Greatest Yiddish Literary Party Ever as a celebration of the release of the film Sholem Aleichem: Laughing in the Darkness by Joseph Dorman. Featuring readings in English from the work [...]
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Please don’t complain about giving money to indie bookstores

On June 22, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Sorry to drop some Jeff Foxworthyesque logic on you, but if you are a person who buys and reads books on a regular basis, and you make it a point to buy your books at your local indie store, then you are part of a literary community. The same goes if you attend any number of literary events put on by the proprietors of those establishments: you frequent their events, you are a part of their community.
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Morning Bites: Walking Will Self, Jesus blogs, listing John Hughes, and more

On June 22, 2011 By Jason Diamond

If you feel as happy as we do about Justin Taylor interviewing Jason Molina (Songs: Ohia, Magnolia Electric Co., his own bad ass self. Pictured above), then feel free to raise your hand.
I guess now would be a perfect time to say something corny like “Walk your eyes over to this Will Self interview about walking!” The Jesús Ángel Garcia book tour blog. Adam Kirsch reviews Departures by Paul Zweig. Somebody had the brains to list all the movies written or directed by John Hughes.
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Afternoon Bites: Extra Lives, Richard Yates, Glenn Branca, and more

On June 21, 2011 By Tobias Carroll

“The only time I have ever heard cries of “encore” at the end of a Bang On A Can Marathon came at the close of Branca’s work on Sunday night. After a half-day of works that tried to break new ground, Branca’s piece discovered the road to vitality that exists on the other side of utter exhaustion.” Seth Colter Walls went to the Bang on a Can Marathon this weekend.
Andrea Seigel is interviewed by Blake Butler. Charlie Looker talks avant-garde music and “unfashionable alt-metal.” Sonya Chung revisits Richard Yates’s The Easter Parade. Wes Eisold [...]
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Huffington Post validates my poor choice in beach reads

On June 21, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Posted by Jason Diamond

I was worried that I’d be thought of as strange for reading Solzhenitsyn’s account of Soviet labor camps while taking advantage of beautiful summer weather, but according to some nameless AOL/Ariana Huffington employee, The Gulag Archipelago doesn’t count as a bad beach read. I mean, it might actually be a horrible choice for relaxing in the sand, but since it’s not on this list, I’m going to believe otherwise

Now some of you might call the many Huffington Post lists pointless, but I see it different, because now I am going to sit on [...]
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Meat marinades and Metallica: Talking Hemingway with Marty Beckerman

On June 21, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Posted by Jason Diamond

There is the wrong way to make the case that masculinity in literature is dying, and then there is the Marty Beckerman way. Beckerman believes that men are losing their way, and that the teachings of one man can help turn everything around: Ernest Hemingway. His book, The Heming Way: How to Unleash the Booze-Inhaling, Animal-Slaughtering, War-Glorifying, Hairy-Chested, Retro-Sexual Legend Within… Just Like Papa!, is a funny, smart, and satirical look at how men can reclaim their manhood by being more like the drunken writer who killed himself fifty years ago this [...]
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