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Morning Bites: Audubon Days, Parisian Bookstores, Michelle Orange, Wright Brothers, and More
Michele Filgate talks with Michelle Orange at The Paris Review. “[T]hese are good days for those who already know and cherish Audubon’s work, and a perfect time for those unfamiliar to find out.” – John James Audubon is having a good moment. Slaughterhouse 90210 gets profiled by Salon. Some beautiful photos of Shakespeare and Co. in Paris. (Via Page Views) Dead philosophers on display at University College London. In case you doubted the Wright brothers… Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google +, our Tumblr, and sign […]
Afternoon Bites: Marnie Stern’s Latest, Ragnar Kjartansson, Scott McClanahan on “Crapalachia,” and More
“So Marnia is about that too: coming to terms with the person you are, rather than the person you might want to be, or once were.” Zach Baron on the latest from Marnie Stern. Steve Albini remembers Jason Molina. Hyperallergic on Ragnar Kjartansson’s “The Visitors“. Joseph Riippi talked Crapalachia with Scott McClanahan. Harry Taussig made his live debut at the age of 71 last week at SXSW. His new album on Tomkins Square sounds terrific. New fiction from Tim Horvath. Mish Way (of […]
Hockey Video Games, Self-Loathing, and Chicago: A Review of Sam Pink’s “Rontel”
Rontel by Sam Pink Lazy Fascist/Electric Literature; 92 p. A few years ago, I saw Sam Pink read in Chicago. All I knew about him at the time was that one of his books bore a truly magnificent title: namely, I Am Going to Clone Myself Then Kill the Clone and Eat It. His reading that evening involved the video sleeve for the mid-90s Jean-Claude Van Damme vehicle Lionheart, and involved a quick digression about the plot of Van Damme’s earlier […]
Band Booking: Chatting About Books and Tongue-In-Cheek Songwriting with Sleepies
Sleepies is a garage rock band based in Brooklyn, composed of Josh Intrator on bass, Thomas Seely on guitar and lead vocals and drummer Max Tremblay. Their first band practice as Sleepies dates back to November 2007. After a series of other bands and musical experiments, the group coalesced around a few common reference points (“weirdo punk rock” according to Seely). I first saw them at the penultimate gig for the now-closed DIY space Dead Herring in January, where they […]
The Reading Life: Nikolai Gogol and New York Real Estate
For a month, I’m living in the second bedroom of my aunt’s apartment in Cobble Hill. She’s not my aunt, and it’s not in Cobble Hill, but these things are easier to say than “my family friend who’s so close that she’s family” and “the Columbia Waterfront District.” I needed a place to stay, and she needed a subletter for the month of March. She has a cat; I have a cat. It works. I’ve lived with her before: my […]
Morning Bites: Sam Lipsyte Talks to Leonard, Aleksandar Hemon Talks to Guernica, What Would Lynne Tillman Do, and More
Sam Lipsyte was on the Leonard Lopate Show yesterday. This Guernica interview with Aleksandar Hemon is pretty great. “I got a goddam hernia, you know that? My goddam belly-button is popping out. That’s why I’m dressed like this … I got no place to go, anyway.” This is apparently Jack Kerouac’s final interview. Prince Paul, the wonderful producer for De La Soul, talks to the AV Club about some of the highlights of his career. Oh, and we kind of […]
Afternoon Bites: Southern California Hardcore, Lauren Groff Interviewed, Prince Master Class, Literary Bestseller Economics, and More
“These pages are replete with stories about battles with cops, long afternoons surfing and skateboarding, being driven around on the freeways by the “only one with a license,” bass guitars thrust through frat house windows, and nights at the unofficial “Mecca” of the scene, the Oki Dog.” Brian Kim Stefans on We Got Power! Ed Champion is planning a 3,000-mile “conversational journey” across the United States. Jessica Luther on feminism in romance novels. Touré on Questlove on Prince. Guernica talked with […]