As 2013 draws to a close, take a look at the intersection of candy and literature, debate whether Marnie Stern made the best album of the year, look at thoughts on the year’s best poetry and most underrated books, delve into the world of Tamil pulp fiction, and much more.
We’re very excited to be co-hosting Ben Marcus at Community Bookstore to begin our 2014 schedule of events. Since his debut, The Age of Wire and String, thoroughly reimagined the uses of language, we’ve thoroughly admired Marcus’s work. With his new collection, Leaving the Sea, Marcus again explores the boundaries of short fiction. At this event, he will be in conversation with Vol.1 Brooklyn managing editor Tobias Carroll.
Comparing Gatsby and The Wolf of Wall Street, Lena Dunham talks writing under duress, Sarah Weinman’s favorite crime novels of 2013, an old American atlas, and much more.
As we did last week, we’re spending this Sunday reviewing some of the highlights from 2013’s Sunday Stories. New Sunday Stories will return on January 5th. The factories are located in Durrës, Albania, north of Niko Dovana Stadium, whose blue fencing and seats always puts me in mind of the sea. I arrive at dusk, having traveled by train, hours in advance of my appointment with Thune. At the local tavern, by flickering lantern light, a kind of rusted light, […]
This weekend: read about the zebra skin owned by William Gaddis, listen to How to Dress Well covering Smog, read an interview with Alexander Chee, learn more about Housing Works’s Vonnegut book group, and more.
I read a lot this year—reading is what’s constant in all jobs I work—and one book that really shook my shoulders was Alice Notley’s Coming After. It’s quietly brilliant criticism—essays and lectures; Sunday clothes—and an early archive of poets Notley knew and loved and felt deserved more critical attention. It’s also a glitched dirge—Notley writes about her husband Ted’s death but life after it too, and not much about herself as a widow. I loved this book because it’s in […]
Checking in with Laura van den Berg, thoughts on Liesl Schillinger’s latest, the year in metal albums, and more.
Michael Robbins picks some metal album, a Zelda Fitzgerald story from 1918, Gucci Mane inspired by Maya Angelou, the Coen Brothers discuss a scene, and more.