Afternoon Bites: Lunch at the NYPL, Cats With Money, Charles Portis, and more

Pegged to an exhibition on lunch (!) that’s opening at the New York Public Library on Friday, there’s a brief history of the Automat over at the NYT. “Congratulations, your generation is the first generation in history to rebel by unsticking it to the man and instead sticking it to the weirdo freak musicians! I am genuinely stunned by this. Since you appear to love first generation Indie Rock, and as a founding member of a first generation Indie Rock […]

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The King of Boston Bookstore Cats?

Meet Rusty from Commonwealth Books in Boston.  He’s a magic creature who helped lead me to a really pretty collection of essays on Edith Wharton (edited by Irving Howe), that was right next to the leather chair which obviously belongs to him. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.

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