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The Perfect Prescription
I don’t do drugs, but I really like music that sounds like it would be even better to listen to if I decided to pick up a substance to slow things down a bit.
That Definitely Sounds Like A Movie Bret Easton Ellis Would Write
The Canyons “will follow a small group of Los Angeles twenty-somethings, in a psycho-sexual thriller that will have both crime and redemption elements” — and a note that the earlier established requisite of a male lead being “full-frontal naked banging girls and guys” won’t be “employed salaciously.” (Via Vulture)
We Endorse The Brooklyn Band Known As Jane Eyre
We’ve already got Thoreau black metal, Orwellian death metal, one garage band that utilized a clever play on Poe’s name, and one band that took the post-war angst of The Catcher in the Rye, channeled it through fuzzed out 60s rock, and named it after Salinger’s most famous character.
The Dream of Dystopia 1985 is Alive in a Back to the Future 2 DVD
The Detroit City Council hasn’t built a half-man/half-robot to patrol the streets (if there was, I’m sure it would be voiced by Clint Eastwood), we aren’t yet at a Road Warrior level of totally fucked with our fuel supplies, and New York isn’t one big maximum security prison like John Carpenter imagined*. We also don’t have hoverboards, something promised to us in one of the most overlooked dystopian films of its time, Back to the Future 2.
Booze, Bollywood, And Dutch Football: A Conversation With Rosie Schaap
If you talk to Rosie Schaap for less than five minutes, you will realize that she is both an incredibly interesting conversationalist, and somebody with a massive amount of knowledge floating around inside her head. According to her bio, she’s been a bartender, a fortuneteller, a librarian at a paranormal society, an English teacher, an editor, a preacher, a community organizer, a manager of homeless shelters, a ghostwriter for an inspirational magazine, and soon she’ll add another notch to that list when her […]
We Had No Shot At Getting The Truman Capote House
The dream of having the Vol. 1 Brooklyn office located in the single-family home where Truman Capote wrote Breakfast at Tiffany’s is dead. The eighteen-room home with eleven fireplaces, parking for four cars, crystal chandeliers, Greek Revival columns, and a stairwell mural copied from the Kennedy White House days fetched about $6 million bellow the May 2010 asking price of $18 million dollars, reported the New York Daily News.
Martin Amis, Dennis Cooper and Salman Rushdie get haute
Martin Amis (above) decked out in Louis Vuitton, Dennis Cooper in a Bottega Veneta shirt, and Salman Rushdie giving you bedroom eyes. All this and more over at T Magazine. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.