March 2013 – Vol. 1 Brooklyn

Sunday Stories: “Our Love Will Go the Way of the Salmon”

March 31, 2013 3 Comments

Our Love Will Go the Way of the Salmon by Cameron Pierce The ducks in the lake were mechanical, but after all these years, all these disasters, the salmon remained flesh and blood. They carried battle scars. They hung out in the shade of overhanging trees and beneath the decaying dock, sighing once in a while in remembrance of all they’d gone through. Not to mention the fellow salmon lost along the way. The salmon had officially retired about a […]

Bites

Weekend Bites: Drinking Like A Gent, Why Ain’t James Salter Popular, Talk Of The Nation, and More

March 30, 2013 No Comments

Katie Roiphe wants to know why James Salter isn’t as popular as Roth or Updike. Renata Adler is profiled by the New York Observer. Gawker has posted H.L. Mencken’s “How to Drink Like a Gentleman.” “I fear we have shipped up – a close shave.” – Captain Robert Falcon Scott’s final letter from his Antarctic camp. NPR says goodbye to “Talk of the Nation.” Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google +, our Tumblr, and sign up for our mailing list.

Bites

Afternoon Bites: Charlie Kaufman’s Sitcom, London Underground Map History, Pharmakon, Stoppard’s Pink Floyd Play, and More

March 29, 2013 No Comments

“Foreshadowing the conceit of homegrown yet fascinating storytelling of family secrets that would make Ira Glass’s head spin (This Canadian Life, perhaps?), Polley opens the intensely personal film with a quote from Margaret Atwood: “When you’re in the middle of a story, it’s not yet a story.”” Sarah Polley’s Stories We Tell sounds fantastic. Amar Toor on the man who created the London Underground’s iconic map. Tom Stoppard is writing a radio play inspired by Pink Floyd’s Dark Side of the […]

Columns, tobyreads

#tobyreads: Lonesome & Crowded — Rudolph Wurlitzer, J. David Osborne, and Gretel Ehrlich Send Dispatches From the West

March 29, 2013 No Comments

I was born in upstate New York. Eleven months later, my parents moved to the middle of New Jersey, where I came of age. I went to college in Manhattan, moved back to New Jersey for a couple of months, and then moved to Brooklyn. I’m not proud to say this, but the longest stretch of time I’ve spent outside of the New York metropolitan area has been two weeks in the late summer of 2006. Sometimes, when I’m at […]

Events

Announcing Comedy In Fiction at the Center For Fiction

March 29, 2013 1 Comment

Doing comic fiction right can be a delicate thing. Few writers can create fiction that’s both satisfying on a literary level and genuinely funny. We’re pleased to be a part of this event, featuring a trio of writers who understand literary craft as well as how to make the reader laugh. * Sam Lipsyte * Fiona Maazel * Jim Shepard It’ll be moderated by our own Jason Diamond. April 11, 7: 30 pm at the Center for Fiction (17 East […]

Books

William Faulkner’s Nobel Prize Medals With a Side of Adultery

March 29, 2013 No Comments

There’s a treasure trove of William Faulkner’s old stuff that Sotheby’s will be putting up for auction, including an unpublished 12-page short story entitled “The Trapper’s Story,”and an original book of poetry called “Vision in Spring.” But the big prize of the auction is undoubtedly Faulkner’s Nobel Prize medal, the diploma, and the hand-written draft of his 1950 Nobel acceptance speech. Faulkner’s trip to Oslo yielded the award that could fetch up to $2 million dollars when it goes up on the […]

Bites

Morning Bites: Borrowing From Zelda, Paul Williams, 18th Century Woodcuts, and More

March 29, 2013 No Comments

The founder of Crawdaddy! and Philip K. Dick’s friend, literary executor and biographer, Paul Williams, passed away at the age of 64. How much did F. Scott Fitzgerald borrow/steal/etc. from Zelda Fitzgerald? Ron Currie Jr. talks about Wilco. Amazon and Goodreads announced they’re a couple. Always read something that starts out with “A series of woodcuts from an 18th century chapbook…” Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google +, our Tumblr, and sign up for our mailing list.

Bites

Afternoon Bites: Alt-Weeklies, Czech Modernism, Christopher Owens Interviewed, and More

March 28, 2013 No Comments

The making of the Making of Americans marathon reading. “As a child, books were a magical distraction from my anxiety — what, 20 years later would be diagnosed as obsessive-compulsive disorder. At school, every real-life, real-time decision — who to befriend, who to avoid — carried an infinite possibility of catastrophe, but I was safe when living inside a book.” Julia Fierro has a terrific essay up at The Millions. Damon Krukowski on alt-weeklies and the end of the Boston Phoenix. The […]