Revisiting conspiracy thrillers, a look at a new biography of Elliott Smith, out-quipping the mayor, an interview with Marisha Pessl, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Revisiting Thomas M. Disch, Elliott Smith Biography, Marisha Pessl Interviewed, and More
Afternoon Bites: Bill Callahan’s Dub, Kathleen Hanna Profiled, New Matt Fraction Comics, Ta-Nehisi Coates on Primo Levi, and More
Kathleen Hanna discusses her new musical venture, Lena Dunham gets political, Matt Fraction is interviewed about his new comics, Bill Callahan plus dub, and more.
Afternoon Bites: “Random Family” at 10, Walter De Maria Remembered, Whaling Wives, Matthew Specktor at The Rumpus, and More
Amy Brill takes us into whaling history, Matthew Specktor and Nick Antosca are interviewed, Adelle Waldman shares her favorite sad young literary men, and more.
#tobyreads: Welcome to the Northern Gothic
Last week, my thoughts were with literary works of the South; this week, I’ve got an eye on three books that channel particularly northern spaces. Matthew Simmons’s collection Happy Rock takes as its setting the Upper Peninsula of Michigan; John Gardner’s Mickelsson’s Ghosts is set in western New York; and, while the stories in Nick Antosca’s The Girlfriend Game take place in a variety of settings, he does have a knack for chronicling bad behavior of New York residents — whether up-and-coming artists […]
Afternoon Bites: xTx Interviewed, Micro-Apartments, Byron Coley’s LP, Deafheaven Profiled, and More
Talking storytelling with Nick Antosca and Ken Baumann, Kevin Sampsell interviews Alissa Nutting, Byron Coley makes a record, Oneida offshoot People of the North release a new album, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Francine Prose on Dreams, Fiona Maazel Interviewed, Annotating Nick Antosca, Patti Smith in New Orleans, and More
Kelefa Sanneh on David Graeber? We will read that, yes. Francine Prose on dreams in fiction. Martin Scorsese’s long-in-the-works adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s Silence may have found its lead. Hanging out with Patti Smith in New Orleans. Nick Antosca’s story “Rat Beast” gets the Rap Genius treatment. Dani Shapiro’s “My Avatar, My Self” is good reading. Chicago art and vampire bats. Fiona Maazel was on the Other People Podcast. James Greer was interviewed by Joyland. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google +, our Tumblr, […]
Afternoon Bites: New Museum on 1993, Latest Illuminati Girl Gang, Lars Iyer Interviewed, and More
“When the nostalgia train hits a time when you were actually an adult, you palpably experience the constructedness of history.” At Artforum, Rhonda Lieberman looks at the New Museum’s “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star.” Nick Antosca makes the case for Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning: “a movie Werner Herzog, David Lynch, and Shivers-era David Cronenberg might make if they teamed up to shoot a Bourne knockoff in Louisiana on a shoestring budget.” THE2NDHAND‘s Todd Dills on his novel […]
Afternoon Bites: Stage Fright Stories, White Lung Interviewed, The Newspapers of “Back to the Future,” and More
“Singer Mish Way is a punk poet in a lineage that extends from Exene Cervenka to Kat Bjelland to Kathleen Hanna…” Tobi Vale interviewed the excellent Vancouver punk band White Lung. 3-Minute Metal Stories alumnus Laina Dawes talked about her new book What Are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal with NPR. Chickfactor asks the likes of Stephin Merritt, Jennifer O’Connor, and Daniel Handler about their experiences with stage fright. Two Nick Antosca books in […]