At Slate, notes on the controversy over Rachel Cusk’s new novel. The Brooklyn Book Bodega has a number of upcoming events. At Shabby Doll House, a chat with Scott McClanahan. The longlist for this year’s Booker Prize has been announced. Looking for some July books in translation recommendations? At Gemini Sessions, an interview with Eric Boyd. The New York Times has a guide to midtown Manhattan bookstores. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Bluesky, Twitter, and Facebook.
Afternoon Bites: Revisiting This Heat, Ursula K. Le Guin Prize Shortlist, Penelope Fitzgerald’s Fiction, and More
In our afternoon reading: thoughts on This Heat, the Ursula K. Le Guin Prize shortlist, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Morgan Parker, Katie Kitamura’s Latest, Joshua Mohr, Kate Zambreno Interviewed, and More
In our afternoon reading: interviews with Morgan Parker and Kate Zambreno, reviews of books by Katie Kitamura and Joshua Mohr, and more.
Morning Bites: Garth Greenwell, American Essays, Katherine Dunn Remembered, Fairy Tales and Literature, and More
In our morning reading: an interview with Garth Greenwell, new writing from Eric Boyd and Kristine Ong Muslim, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Isaac Fitzgerald on “Pen & Ink,” John Coltrane’s “Offering,” Anne Valente’s Playlist, Mary Lattimore and Jeff Zeigler, and More
This afternoon: talking tattoos with Isaac Fitzgerald, thoughts on a John Coltrane live album, comics about abandoned spaces, a playlist from Anne Valente, and more.
Sunday Stories: “Effort”
Effort by Eric Boyd Nearly a week went by before I saw Daniel, my father. He never wrote, never got on the phone when my mother and I spoke; when Xmas came, he didn’t even sign his own name on the card. I walked up and knocked on the door. From outside, it looked abandoned. We lived at the top of a dead end hill. The grass was high and brown, the bricks in the driveway were crooked and caved […]