Vol. 1 Brooklyn

A Brief Look at “Refugee Hotel”

January 28, 2013 No Comments

We are understandably thrilled to see the press that’s been coming in for Refugee Hotel, a collaboration between photographer Gabriele Stabile and writer (and Vol.1 contributor) Juliet Linderman. “…the book reflects a nuanced image of the country itself,” Jennifer Day’s review in the Chicago Tribune says; over at Time, there’s a selection of Stabile’s photography available for perusal. And Peter Meehan chatted with both Linderman and Stabile about the book. You can learn more about the book at its page at McSweeney’s. Follow […]

Television

A Girl on Girls: Maybe I Don’t Care About Being Polite (S2/E3 “Bad Friend”)

January 28, 2013 No Comments

Like I said last week, Girls excels when it has the courage to pare down the cast and really engage with specific cast members. This week we have even fewer players, including plenty of time with my imaginary boyfriend Andrew Rannells in his role as Elijah. “Bad Friend” uses a mostly split narrative—we are with Hannah, and then we are with Marnie. Yes, we briefly see Jessa and Shosh manning what looks like a killer stoop sale, but that’s all […]

Television

A Guy on Girls: Cocaine Technique, Oblique Critique, and the Return of Duncan Sheik! (S2/E3, “Bad Friend”)

January 28, 2013 No Comments

This week marked a departure from last week’s climax, in which Adam behaved like a sociopathic toddler before being hauled off in cuffs for an unpaid urination citation. The insanity of that moment was not in him as some potential murderer. The true fear and horror in that moment is watching someone be told that they are no longer desired. How do you cleanse the palate and issue hearty doses of mirth? Four blessed words: guest star Jon Glaser.

Bites

Morning Bites: New Nicole Krauss, Why Egan Writes, Pride and Prejudice at 200, Mean Girls Musical, and More

January 28, 2013 No Comments

Pride and Prejudice gets illustrated for its 200th birthday. Nicole Krauss has a story in this week’s New Yorker, and she talked to Deborah Treisman about it at Page Turner. “When I’m not writing I feel an awareness that something’s missing.” Jennifer Egan at Salon. Why did men stop wearing high heels? The Coen Brothers vs. the Beatnik Curse. David Mamet wrote a weird pro-gun piece for Newsweek with an Isaac Bashevis Singer sounding title. Michael Tomasky responds to it. […]

Sunday Stories

Sunday Stories: “Plastic Utensils: The Dividing Line”

January 27, 2013 1 Comment

Plastic Utensils: The Dividing Line by Andria Alefhi I am eating my lunch, my free lunch that cost the seniors two dollars, with plastic utensils. I wonder at the nurse slicing the roast chicken breast on the bone so expertly with plastic fork and knife. She has to — it is her job to feed the elderly woman holding the baby doll, whose mind and motor skills must be gone. I push my plate away instinctually. A lunch carved with […]

Bites

Weekend Bites: Professor X Waiting for Godot, Gone Girl Duds, Beards on the up and up, and More

January 26, 2013 No Comments

Patrick Stewart And Ian McKellen will be Waiting for Godot. “It would be nice to see Charlie Rose with more advanced stubble, Joe Biden with a massive three-monther” – A Continuos Lean on ” the migration of the beard from the urban woodsman to the corporate boardroom.” Jay McInerney and a Beastie Boy share some expensive wine. The fashion of Gone Girl. Are book tours hell or helpful? Important weekend tip: the 25 best cocktails in NYC right now, all in GIF form. […]

Bites

Afternoon Bites: Literary Soccer, Gene Luen Yang’s Historical Graphic Novels, Gary Panter, and More

January 25, 2013 No Comments

“Panter’s famous ratty line provides a restless urgency to scenes of kinetic city life, but his immense talent in these early strips is in suggesting atmospheric detail through linework that, like the terrain it depicts, is a blend of multiple sources.” Nicole Rudick reviewed Gary Panter’s Dal Tokyo for the Los Angeles Review of Books. We’re really enjoying this Paris Review series on soccer in Montenegro. And while we’re looking at terrific writing on soccer, we should also mention Tom Mitchell’s piece […]

Books, music

We’re Hanging out With Ian Svenonius at WORD on Monday

January 25, 2013 No Comments

We like to sometimes joke that the Golden Era of Washington, D.C. punk could be identified as the time when many of the scene’s best-known musicians and thinkers had names that were three letters or less. Ian MacKaye, J. Robbins, H.R., Guy Picciotto, etc. Ian Svenonius is part of that group, and like them, he has held our attention for years. From the moment when we first heard 13-Point Plan to Destroy America by his first band Nation of Ulysses […]

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