Patrick Radden Keefe at Page-Turner on Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood co-conspirators. Four really great looking covers of Chinua Achebe Things Fall Apart. An excerpt from Mara Altman’s latest Kindle Single, That’s What She Said, is up for your reading pleasure at Death + Taxes. A German Expressionist Space Fantasy novel from 1913 gets translated. Super early stuff by The Smiths has been discovered. JFK Jr.: Style icon. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google +, our Tumblr, and sign up for our mailing list.
Sunday Stories: “Argument”
Argument by Rhys Leyshon Evans McCarren Park sits amidst the August haze, young and old voices peppering the exasperated air. Frisbee’s float this way and that. Families picnic on chequered rugs and blankets. Sandwiches wrapped in tin foil look on in despair as ravenous mouths descend. Husbands lose their cool with wives next to heaving iceboxes. Blades of grass sit cheekily on once expensive blankets, blemishing the psychedelic patterns like acne on a twelve-year olds once un-imitable pallor. Couples are […]
Weekend Bites: Willa Cather’s Letters, Amelia Gray’s Suggestions, Mrs. Oscar Wilde, Indie Wines, and More
The letters of Willa Cather will be published next month, but in the meantime, The New York Times has one of the letters online. No big deal, just Amelia Gray suggesting cool stuff to read. Abigail Grace Murdy on Mrs. Oscar Wilde. Teenage Hemingway. The indie wine of Sonoma. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google +, our Tumblr, and sign up for our mailing list.
Afternoon Bites: Reading Frenzy, Renata Adler, Festival Nrmal Report, Geoff Rickly on Cult of Youth, and More
The excellent Portland bookstore/zine store/art space Reading Frenzy is holding a fundraiser for its new location. The Portland Mercury has more. We will only say that we have our eyes on some of the prints they’re offering as incentives. At Stereogum, Liz Pelly reports from Festival Nrmal. “By starting with one guitar and one voice, then ending with a full band, orchestra and group vocal, “Man & Man’s Ruin” begins as Sean Ragon and ends as Cult of Youth. It begins […]
#tobyreads: Geography Revisited — Brian Francis Slattery, Francesca Lia Block, and Nicola Griffith Rewrite Familiar Landscapes
Fiction has a particular ability to rework familiar places into new iterations of themselves. In some cases, this can be by presenting alternate or fantastical versions of a certain space; in others, it can come through pushing that space into the future (or pulling it back into history.) The three books discussed today reveal new sides to cities and towns we thought we knew — and make for good, sometimes moving reading.
Fragmented Memories and Revising Badminton: A Conversation with Geneviève Castrée
The work of Geneviève Castrée encompasses art, music, and comics, all of which share a common defiance of tradition. It’s idiosyncratic and deeply compelling, no matter the media where one encounters it. Most recently, she is the author of the autobiographical graphic novel Susceptible, which follows its protagonist Goglu through her childhood. That experience is a more hazardous one than it seems: her mother loses herself in intoxication and a neverending bad relationship. Throughout, there are glimmers of hope: Goglu’s discovery of punk […]
Morning Bites: Alice Munro Made of Straw, Futuristic Outfits, Chinua Achebe, Phil Spector’s Biopic, and More
Chinua Achebe has passed away. This is what happens when you do the Harlem Shake at Oxford. i09 asks what people think are the greatest futuristic outfits ever. The Atlantic profiles Maris Kreizman and Slaughterhouse 90210. Rachel Shukert on Al Pacino and David Mamet doing Phil Spector. Got five hundred bucks to spend on a copy of an Alice Munro book made of straw paper? Stories are good for our emotional health. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google +, our Tumblr, and sign […]
Afternoon Bites: Aleksandar Hemon on Displacement, Ballard’s Memoir, Marnie Stern Interviewed, and More
“I do have a sense of displacement as constant instability — the uninterrupted existence of everything that I love and care about is not guaranteed at all. I wait for catastrophes.” Aleksandar Hemon talked with the Times. Paul Constant previews this year’s APRIL Festival. (We interviewed the festival’s co-founder last month.) If you’re looking to buy some stocks and are decidedly fond of Moleskine notebooks, this might be your week. Dennis Lim reviews J.G. Ballard’s memoir. Christopher R. Weingarten on the […]