Between now and when the flowers start growing, the trees beging greening, and the animals start mating, we’ve got a bunch of events going on. There will be a few more announced coming up, but in the meantime, we figured we should mention these. Also, as usual, all events are free.
Morning Bites: Ezra Pound’s gross legacy, Pazz & Jop, Downton rocks, protest SOPA, Gertrude Stein gets new editions, and more
Ezra Pound’s daughter wants to take the poet’s legacy away from fascists. Google, Wikipedia, and other websites protest SOPA. The 39th annual Village Voice Pazz & Jop poll is out, and two Vol. 1 editors voted: Jason Diamond and Tobias Carroll. “Alice B. Toklas baked for her.” – Rosamond Bernier has led a sweet life. NPR discusses her new memoir, Some Of My Lives. Speaking of Alice B. Toklas: Gertrude Stein gets the Yale treatment. Sara Levine talks to Chicago Magazine about Treasure […]
Indexing: Books with numbers, back to “Treasure Island!!!,” a Joy Williams quest, Nathan Englander, Norman Lock, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, and much more
A roundup of things consumed by our contributors. Jen Vafdis I read Joy Williams’ Honored Guest for the first of probably a few times this week. Some stories I loved unconditionally, others might reveal themselves to me later. You know how it is when one character jumps out at you in a story, and you immediately cast the role of that character in your mind? Perhaps other Joy Williams fans will agree, maybe not, but I think James Urbaniak (of […]
Morning Bites: Another American Psycho, Sara Levine’s music, Unpopular Proverbs, and more
Another American Psycho film? Seriously? Is that really necessary? Is Bret Easton Ellis hard up for cash or something? Emma Straub on Amazon kicking bookstores while they’re down. Sara Levine talks to Largehearted Boy about the songs that helped inspire her book Treasure Island!!! Slate doesn’t seem to like the trailer for the movie adaptation of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close. Teddy Wayne lists another unpopular proverb at McSweeney’s. Greil Marcus really wants you to know […]
Afternoon Bites: Sara Levine, Dagmara Dominczyk, Laird Hunt, and more
“I wanted to build a voice that was beholden to French literature, and particularly to its avant-garde wing, which had such a huge impact on my writing from the outset, but was kind of polluted with my own voice, which is very American, I think, and specifically Los Angeles-centric in its flatness and in its attempt to induce some kind of poetic trance within its limitations.” At Huffington Post, Brian Joseph Davis chats with Dennis Cooper. “[P]ointlessly smart, Waugh-ly arch, […]
Afternoon Bites: Amelia Gray, Sara Levine, Paula Bomer, and more
“[T]his highly original, farcical novel will keep you entertained in spite of (or more accurately, because of) its toxic narrator” At Library Journal, Lauren Gilbert on Sara Levine’s upcoming novel Treasure Island!!! (on Europa Editions.) Vice has an excerpt up from Amelia Gray’s forthcoming novel Threats. At Big Other, Paula Bomer chats with Edward Mullany. Philip Gourevitch has one of the most succinct summations of the week’s events regarding Occupy Wall Street at The New Yorker. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn […]