lev grossman | Vol. 1 Brooklyn

Currently viewing the tag: "lev grossman"

Your favorite television characters as lit bloggers

On January 11, 2012 By Jason Diamond

Morning Bites: Detroit pictures, Eisenberg’s year, Grossman’s picks, DeLillo rips an ollie, and more

On December 8, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Morning Bites: Tranströmer takeover, Roth’s consolation prize, Lev Grossman TV, and more

On October 6, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Real talk: Tomas Tranströmer won the Nobel Prize for literature, and we’ve never read any of his work. But that doesn’t stop us from thinking the cover for his “20 Poems” is really cool.
Philip Roth didn’t win (again…), but he’s been shortlisted for an award celebrating medicine in literature. Steve Jobs gave us our choice of fonts. This whole Lev Grossman book becoming a movie thing is really awesome news. Joshua Cohen says Yizkor (remembrance) for books. Ethan Nosowsky is a cool guy. Ethan Nosowsky is now the editorial director at [...]
Read More →

Morning Bites: Lovecraft turns 120, Grossman and the Woolfs, Finnish Bellow, and more

On August 19, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Tomorrow, August 20th, is the 120th birthday of H.P. Lovecraft.
Lev Grossman talks some Virginia Woolf. Remember last year when he wrote about Virginia’s husband in The Believer? (We’re just trying to give you things to read this weekend.) The short list is announced for the St. Francis literary prize. The writers and their nominated books are: Kevin Brockmeier, The Illumination; Joshua Cohen, Witz; Jonathan Dee, The Privileges; Yiyun Li, Gold Boy Emerald Girl; Marlene van Niekerk, Agaat; and Brad Watson, Aliens in the Prime of Their Lives. The Finnish Saul Bellow? Vanessa Veselka is [...]
Read More →

Indexing: Brontë for kicks, Lipsyte update, James Salter, The Brothers Karamazov, and more

On August 13, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Spending money on Spotify, reading something for kicks, Lev Grossman, Law and Order, and so much more of what is interesting folks in Vol. 1 land.
Read More →

Review: Lev Grossman’s “The Magician King”

On August 10, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Reviewed by Emily Goldsher

The Magician King
By Lev Grossman
Viking, 416 p.

I have to confess, I hadn’t read The Magicians until The Magician King made it into my hands–so my experience of getting to know Quentin, Lev Grossman’s magically-inclined protagonist, was quite rapid and a bit obsessive. I didn’t suffer the wait between the two books, so I didn’t have to give the first book much thought before undertaking the second. Still, there is a clear sea change between The Magicians and The Magician King; perhaps it is the passage of [...]
Read More →

Morning Bites: Lev Grossman’s mixtape, Sholem Asch, lady punks, and more

On August 9, 2011 By Jason Diamond

Lev Grossman digs some Colin Meloy, Twilight goes 8 bit, new media and old are to blame in the London riots, and more.
Read More →

Happening: Largehearted Lit, December Edition

On December 3, 2009 By Jason Diamond

This Sunday night, 5PM at the Knitting Factory, Largehearted Boy, and curator Jami Attenberg present another night of Largehearted Lit. If you were at the last one, you witnessed Libba Bray deliver a soul-stirring rendition of The Modern Lovers “Roadrunner”, and Lev Grossman getting some “nerd rapper” to do his thing.

Not sure what everybody has in store this month, but doing the research, we think this is going to be pretty good since Emma Straub & Marie Mutsuki Mockett will be reading, and the special musical guests are members of The Magnetic Fields [...]
Read More →

Featured Posts

An Excerpt From Chloe Caldwell’s LEGS GET LED ASTRAY

Greatest Books I’ve Never Read #1: “On The Road”

Literary Ephemera: Modernist lit. journals from the early 20th Century

Reviewed: “Sister Stop Breathing” by Chiara Barzini

Hillary Jordan’s “When She Woke”: A Discussion

Events

03/07/12: The Greatest 3-Minute Movie Stories Ever

04/04/12: Vol. 1 Brooklyn and McSweeney’s present Adam Levin

04/10/12: Vol. 1 Brooklyn presents The Greatest 3-Minute Punk Stories Ever

04/19/12: Book Release Party for Chloe Caldwell's "Legs Get Led Astray" at Book Thug Nation

Twitter: vol1brooklyn
We know they're in Chicago, but @MtropolisCoffee might be the official coffee of Vol. 1. about 17 minutes ago from TweetDeck
Did you get a chance to read the excerpt from Chloe Caldwell’s LEGS GET LED ASTRAY? http://t.co/qv5qci0j about 23 minutes ago from TweetDeck
Getting nostalgic with Woody Allen http://t.co/byYr4m5J about 15 hours ago from TweetDeck
RT @ElectricLit: E Is For Edward Gorey Born On This Day: http://t.co/J7gAZjYf // @vol1brooklyn about 17 hours ago from TweetDeck
An Excerpt From Chloe Caldwell’s LEGS GET LED ASTRAY http://t.co/qv5qci0j about 18 hours ago from TweetDeck
@vol1brooklyn
Sign up for our mailing list

Email Address

Preferred Format

HTML

Text

Mobile

Contact

About

J.S.P

Shop

People We Like

Sunday Stories

p-21iqrI69F1PEY