Roads to Somewhere: Gideon Lewis-Kraus’ “A Sense of Direction” Reviewed

A Sense of Direction by Gideon Lewis-Kraus Riverhead, 352 p.  What makes Gideon Lewis-Kraus walk?  That’s the central question of the young writer’s memoir, A Sense of Direction.  You find yourself asking why the perpetually uprooted Lewis-Kraus finds himself globe trotting; what he’s looking for, and if he’s ever going to find it.  Kraus is the type of soul that Henry David Thoreau would have enjoyed, a guy who is a savant in what the 19th century transcendentalist poet and […]

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Morning Bites: BEA Parties, Updike’s Duds, Patti Smith, OWS Sues NYC, and More

Ernest Hemingway’s reporting for the Toronto Star.  (Via The Rumpus) John Updike: great dresser. Have you had a chance to check out Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading? Will interviews with Patti Smith ever get old?  The answer is a big NOPE.  That obviously includes this interview between Smith and Melissa Giannini of Spin. EvilReads has your official BEA party guide (including the Bookrageous party we’re co-sponsoring along with some other fantastic folks). OWS sues NYC. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.

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Dave Hill’s Heavy Friends

We already gave Dave Hill the award for best book trailer of 2012, so there wasn’t much left to do for a followup other than to invite Dick Cavett and Malcolm Gladwell over to talk Tasteful Nudes. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.

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