“A book of hours is a medieval daybook of prayer. This is kind of a daybook of grief.” Kevin Young was interviewed at Guernica.

Laina Dawes on the day when NYC hosted both Millions March and SantaCon.

Elisabeth Donnelly on the best nonfiction books of 2014.

BOMB‘s Kickstarter campaign is in its final day.

Hanging out with novelist/pop-punk guy Frank Portman.

Jen Michalski has new fiction at The Collagist.

How Melville House turned the Senate Committee Report on Torture into a book in very little time.

Ad Hoc on the year’s best reissued albums and compilations.

At Impose, photos from Matmos’s show at Issue Project Room.

Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google +, our Tumblr, and sign up for our mailing list.