Afternoon Bites: Kathleen Hanna Interviewed, Barbara Bloom’s Art, Revisiting Eileen Myles’s “Chelsea Girls,” and More

On Frank O’Hara and Alfred Leslie’s lamp. Rachel Hurn recalls her first encounter with Eileen Myles’s Chelsea Girls. Kathleen Hanna talked with The Daily Beast. Paper has some zine recommendations for you… …which shares some points of reference with Hyperallergic’s piece on female adolescence. Barbara Bloom was interviewed about her exhibit at the Jewish Museum. Mary Ruefle’s “Lectures I Will Never Give” appears at The Rumpus. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google +, our Tumblr, and sign up for our mailing list.

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Afternoon Bites: Martin Scorsese and NYRB, Matthew Dickman on Mary Ruefle, Baltimore’s Literary History, and More

  “This is a book not just for poets but for anyone interested in the human heart, the inner-life, the breath exhaling a completion of an idea that will make you feel changed in some way.” Matthew Dickman on Mary Ruefle’s Madness, Rack, and Honey. Will Sheff makes the case that a televised Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show concert from 1974 is his preferred “cinematic document of a rock and roll band.” Martin Scorsese is making a documentary about the New […]

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