An Intellectual’s Family Situation: Marco Roth’s “The Scientists” Reviewed

The Scientists: A Family Romance by Marco Roth Farrar, Straus and Giroux; 208 p. While there is no shortage of pieces from the relatively short history of n+1 that could be collected into some sort of reader, or called the defining essay on certain subjects, in terms of literary output, three names that appear on the masthead of n+1’s first issue have all fared a bit differently.  There’s the mixed response to Keith Gessen’s All the Sad Young Literary Men (Joyce Carol […]

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Things Fall Apart

I have these memories of being a child and driving over the Chicago Skyway bridge with my family and realizing at that point how far from home we’d driven — where the suburbs and urban landscape are left behind to give way to rusted factories, smokestacks and mills where things were made. 

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The Very Necessary Ellen Willis

I had read a few Ellen Willis essays on music in the past, but until Out of the Vinyl Deeps: Ellen Willis on Rock Music (University of Minnesota Press) was released last year, I’d never had a chance to sit down and immerse myself in her writings. Simply put: Reading Ellen Willis’ thoughts on music was a revelation. Willis had this ability to mix the personal with the political when talking about music that I can’t recall ever reading before–she was truly in […]

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The @Horse_ebooks Poetry Chapbook Needs Cash

By posting Erin Watson’s Kickstarter video (she wants to publish a book of poetry inspired by spambot, @Horse_Ebooks) we aren’t endorsing it; neither are we saying that @Horse_ebooks isn’t poetry already. All we’re saying is that you’re already retweeting @Horse_ebooks, so why not consider helping out somebody who is taking it to the next level? That’s all we’re saying. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.

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Edith Wharton and Friends in Vogue

Not only do we get an essay on Edith Wharton written by Colm Tóibín in the newest issue of Vogue, but we get an entire Wharton-inspired photo spread shot by Annie Leibovitz at The Mount. Including the above photo that recreates a picnic between Henry James, Morton Fullerton and Wharton.

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Morning Bites: Molly Reads Emma, On New Russian Lit., Paperback Revolution, Marvin Hamlisch and More

You know it’s just Molly Ringwald reading Emma Straub.  Seriously NO BIG DEAL. Chloe Caldwell talks to Publishers Weekly. How Penguin revolutionized the paperback. Rachel Shukert remembered Marvin Hamlisch at Tablet. Gabrielle Gantz talks new Russian literature. Impose talks to Eric Copeland (Black Dice). Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.

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