A New Riverside Retreat for NYC Poets Debuts in Partnership with KGB Bar & Lit Club

Josh Cottage

It’s the cottage where a New York City teacher named Frank McCourt wrote the Pulitzer Prize-winning Angela’s Ashes.  Since McCourt’s time there in the 1990s, this Milford, Pennsylvania cabin owned by former AMC-TV head and current indie film producer Josh Sapan has served as the periodic retreat – an “accidental art colony” in his words – for creative-minded friends and friends of friends. It has hosted everyone from national book award winner Colum McCann, who worked on his acclaimed international bestseller Apeirogon there, to a bevy of poets, painters, photographers and composers.

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Greenlight Bookstore Joins the Podcasting World

  As fans of the literary podcast, we’re happy to hear that the fine people at Fort Greene’s Greenlight Bookstore have started one of their own. The first episode of their bimonthly podcast features Colum McCann in conversation with Phil Klay, along with reviews of books by Emma Straub and Joan Silber.

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Morning Bites: Nobel odds, Esquire short fiction, Book Riot, Stephen King on horror flicks, and more

Place your bets on the winner of the Nobel Prize for literature. Esquire wants you to write 78 words of fiction.  If it’s good, you can go study with Colum McCann. Book Riot has launched.  We think it might be the future. Israeli writer Yoram Kaniuk is officially a man without a religion. Tonight on Turner Classic Movies, an hour of Stephen King talking about horror movies. Over at Salon, Scott Timberg’s essay on the ” hollowing out of the creative […]

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Aleksandar Hemon: Can’t Stop, Won’t Stop

Last November, Mark Asch of L Magazine asked, “So Now Who’s Going to Run the Paris Review?” “I’m assuming they’re hiring from outside rather than inside—should probably be a renowned writer in his or her own right, and well-connected in the American and European literary community; but also someone with experience in the world, through writing (as a critic, reader and editor) and as a traveler and/or reporter, with a wide-angle view of world politics and literature. Someone of both […]

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Bites: Hemon and McCann Talk, Jack London’s 134th Birthday, Because Paul Auster Says so, Yummy Fur, and More

Aleksandar Hemon talks with with Colum McCann nin the new issue of The Believer.  I love both writers, but I put this at the top so I could post the Tony Millionaire illustration. People care that it’s the 134th anniversary of Jack London’s birth. If Paul Auster says that Paul Auster is putting out a new novel, it must be true. Steve Almond weighs in on Katie Roiphe’s males writers and sex fiction piece. Weird writer rituals. Dave Eggers talks […]

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Bites: Dr. Seuss Frenching, Judah Friedlander, The Tallest Man on Earth is in the stairwell, Andrew Bird, J.J. Abrams not caring about fat people).

We just got on that Twitter thing. Follow us @vol1brooklyn for all sorts of stuff you won’t see here, and updates to stuff you will. C’est l’heure! Translations of Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham and Horton Hears a Who are being released in France. Personally, I’m wondering why this hasn’t happened yet. Additionally, Bookslut profiled the ever-quirky children’s author this month, and it turns out he was pretty astonishing and misunderstood, which I suppose isn’t much of a surprise. […]

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