Monthly Archives: June 2011
Band Booking: Marissa Nadler
Posted by Jason Diamond I didn’t believe in mind-altering musical experiences until Marissa Nadler. I had booked her as part of a weekend of music I had curated, sometime after her mesmerizing album Songs III: Bird on the Water had … Continue reading
Excerpting Terry Southern’s “Red Dirt Marijuana and Other Tales”
Posted by Jason Diamond Terry Southern is the quintessential dark satirical humor voice of 60s counterculture, and his resume is easily one of the most impressive of the 20th Century. Having his name attached to works like Easy Rider and … Continue reading
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Things John Darnielle Likes: Sriracha, Heavy Metal, Nikolai (m.f.) Gogol
Posted by Tobias Carroll Ned Raggett sat down with a chat with John Darnielle for the OC Weekly. Many things are discussed, from the sequencing of the Mountain Goats’ latest album All Eternals Deck to cassette-only releases to on-the-fly recipes. And then … Continue reading
Morning Bites: Ten Thousand Saints, book making videos, threatening Bloomberg, and more
Eleanor Henderson’s coming of age punk/straight edge novel, Ten Thousand Saints, is discussed at the Boston Globe. A nifty little documentary on how books are made from sometime around the late 1940s. (Thanks to @Bookish_Type) Young kids threatening Mayor Michael … Continue reading
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Afternoon Bites: Liveright, Jesse Bell, Grantland, and more
W.W. Norton is reviving the Liveright imprint, according to this Publishers Weekly piece. “Speaking to the fiction offerings from the imprint, Norton said Liveright will look to publish novels that “uphold a distinct twentieth-century American tradition.” Liveright will also publish … Continue reading
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Here are three free literary events we’re producing
To celebrate all this talk about events, Vol. 1 has decided to host three free events in a ten day period starting on July 6th. Granted, we planned and announced these events weeks ago, but we figure there is never … Continue reading
Please don’t complain about giving money to indie bookstores
Sorry to drop some Jeff Foxworthyesque logic on you, but if you are a person who buys and reads books on a regular basis, and you make it a point to buy your books at your local indie store, then … Continue reading
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Morning Bites: Walking Will Self, Jesus blogs, listing John Hughes, and more
If you feel as happy as we do about Justin Taylor interviewing Jason Molina (Songs: Ohia, Magnolia Electric Co., his own bad ass self. Pictured above), then feel free to raise your hand. I guess now would be a perfect … Continue reading
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Afternoon Bites: Extra Lives, Richard Yates, Glenn Branca, and more
“The only time I have ever heard cries of “encore” at the end of a Bang On A Can Marathon came at the close of Branca’s work on Sunday night. After a half-day of works that tried to break new … Continue reading
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