Monthly Archives: June 2009
Reviewed: Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi By Geoff Dyer
Pantheon Books, 2009 Reviewed by Willa Cmiel Extremes are dangerous. Extreme sports, extreme dieting, extreme Calvinism, what have you, they all come with consequences. In Geoff Dyer’s diptyched novel, Jeff in Venice, Death in Varanasi, Jeff Atman’s life exists under … Continue reading
Bites: Dr. Seuss Frenching, Judah Friedlander, The Tallest Man on Earth is in the stairwell, Andrew Bird, J.J. Abrams not caring about fat people).
We just got on that Twitter thing. Follow us @vol1brooklyn for all sorts of stuff you won’t see here, and updates to stuff you will. C’est l’heure! Translations of Dr. Seuss’ Green Eggs and Ham and Horton Hears a Who … Continue reading
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Bites: Marjane Satrapi on Iranian election, studying Big Lebowski, guerrilla readings and Grizzly Bear dudes)
Marjane Satrapi (illustrator, and author of book and movie Persepolis) and Iranian filmmaker Mohsen Makhmalbaf, presented a document that states that “liberal cleric and former parliament speaker Mehdi Karroubi came second in the election with a total of 13.3 million … Continue reading
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Top five Norman Mailer clips
I’d be hard-pressed to find an event as bizarre as Norman Mailer’s quixotic 1969 mayoral campaign in the annals of New York City political history. Running alongside newspaper writer Jimmy Breslin (who was running for city council president) under the … Continue reading
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Bites: Dave Eggers preorder, Tao Lin tackles Herzog, New England lit. Bowerbirds, reading rappers, James Franco, classic albums
That ol’ rascal Dave Eggers has got (as broken down by a user comment on this site) a book coming out that’s a novelization of a movie that is based off a book. Or something along those lines. Either way, … Continue reading
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Bites: Salman Rushdie as a tiny dancer, pictures of Berlin, John Updike maybe turning in his grave, and the party album of the summer?
“She had heels on, so he only came up to her breasts,” laughs our source. “With her low-cut dress and his bald head, when he’s dancing with her he looks like her third boob.” The above quote was about Salman … Continue reading
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Scenes from a Bay Area reading
HTMLGIANT posted the above video, along with some photos from a reading series in San Francisco. I like this guy Mike Young, he’s got style, and I think I’m going to get over my fear of using Paypal, and I … Continue reading
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Bites: Bukowski, the death of print, Julia Wertz, WFMU
The Rumpus has published a previously unpublished forward by Charles Bukowski. Speaking of poetry, if you’ve published some, you can apply to live in Robert Frost’s farmhouse for two months next summer, and hope for osmosis. Is everyone reading Little … Continue reading
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Conversation: Chris Leo
Chris Leo, of the Leo clan, writer of books (his book of shorts, Feathers Like Leather is going into its second pressing), member of bands (The Van Pelt recently reformed for some shows, also formerly of The Lapse, and Native … Continue reading
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