E Is For Edward Gorey Born On This Day

My first recollection of experiencing Edward Gorey’s work came when I was a kid, when I kept watching PBS long after my block of Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers was up.  There was a man in a suit that talked for a few moments about becoming a member of the station, then all of a sudden this odd cartoon came on and I was transfixed until it was over and some people with English accents started talking.  After that I vainly tried […]

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Morning Bites: Marc Maron Meets Bret Easton Ellis (On Twitter), Saul Bass For Kids, Abbey Talk, And More

That tweet by Marc Maron to Bret Easton Ellis is a perfect example of why it is perfectly alright to stay on Twitter past midnight.  We are also hopeful that this is Maron’s invite to Ellis to appear on his WTF podcast. Meredith Blake at The Paris Review meets Lady Fiona Herbert, the eighth Countess of Carnarvon, and talks about her book Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey. Rob Horning at The New Inquiry on Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey. A Wisława Szymborska […]

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A David Foster Wallace Roundup

There’s a pretty good chance you’ve noticed that today would have been David Foster Wallace’s birthday.  Here’s a roundup of some DFW news and pieces that we think you should probably read in case you haven’t already.

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Vol. 1 Brooklyn Presents: The Greatest 3-Minute Movie Stories On March 7th

On Wednesday March 7th, Vol. 1 Brooklyn will bring our Greatest 3-Minute Story Series to Manhattan for the first time, and our readers are telling stories about movies. Each of our readers gets 180 seconds each to tell a story (fiction, non, personal essay, top ten list, whatever…), and we’ve got a pretty impressive lineup to bring to the Le Poisson Rouge stage. The event is totally free, starts at 6 PM, and is hosted by Vol. 1’s Jason Diamond.

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Morning Bites: David Foster Wallace At 50, Pen/Faulker Finalists, Bushwick Writers, Maya Rudolph As Her Mom, And More

Today would have been David Foster Wallace’s 50th birthday.  Daniel B. Roberts at Salon makes the case for giving more credit to Wallace’s work as a journalist.  If you want more Wallace, join in on the #dfw50 conversation on Twitter. Russell Banks, Don DeLillo, Anita Desai, Steven Millhauser, and Julie Otsuka are the finalists for the 2012 Pen/Faulkner Award for Fiction. Today also marks the anniversary of the 1925 debut of The New Yorker. Five Bushwick writers talk about how to get […]

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