Our James Joyce logo

Posted by Jason Diamond I think we’ve mentioned how pretty much anything Jimmy Chen  posts will probably be your best experience on that given day. Last week he tweeted at us that he made us a logo for 6/16/12 (Bloomsday), but we figured it’s worth posting since today is James Joyce’s birthday and all… Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr. Got tips for Bites?  Info@Vol1brooklyn.com

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Teenage surf rock will never die

Posted by Jason Diamond I will get older and I will probably get more jaded.  Hopefully when I reach that point of the seen it all/done it all 40-something (like this guy), I will still love music that incorporates teenage angst and/or surf rock into its formula. Sauna are from Denver, so I’m not quite sure what they know about surfing.  That doesn’t mean they can’t put out a great release called The Teen Angst Tape, that sounds like they’ve listened to […]

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On the ladies and their blogs

Posted by Jason Diamond Last week I was curious as to why nearly everybody on my Twitter feed was talking about Richard Beck’s n+1 article about Pitchfork, considering the article was included in the previous issue a few months earlier. Then I realized, “Ah yes, it has just now been released on the internet.  Got it.” Next up on the n+1 internet essay list: smart websites for women on the internet (The Hairpin, Rookie, Jezebel, etc.).  And this time they […]

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Morning Bites: Watchmen prequels, S.J. Perelman, fiction faith struggles, Mailer, The Shining 2 (by Franzen), and more

Prequels for Watchmen?  Alan Moore calls it “shameless.” S.J. Perelman was born on this day in 1904.  Director John Ford and Clark Gable also would be celebrating birthdays if they weren’t dead. Great fictional characters struggling with faith. Somehow we missed that yesterday was Norman Mailer’s birthday.  PageViews did not make such an egregious error. “The Shining 2 By Jonathan Franzen by Stephen King” by Blake Butler at Vice. At McSweeney’s: “Your dreamcatcher is clogged again.” Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google […]

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Morning Bites: The Bloomsbury Rabbi, Alan Lomax, looking for the Cormac McCarthy influence, new n+1, and more

Did Virginia Woolf and her Bloomsbury chums have a rabbi friend?  (Also: That’s Lytton Strachey, not a rabbi.) Read three chapters from Sam McPheeters forthcoming book, Loom of the Room. There’s a new issue of n+1 available. Alan Lomax gets the complete digital treatment. Whet Moser on the GOP’s use of Saul Alinsky’s name to conjure up fear of Satanists. Dylan Carlson of Earth tries to go solo. Hopefully it will have some sort of Cormac McCarthy influence. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn […]

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Literary Ephemera: When Budd Schulberg chilled

Posted by Jason Diamond I was reading about Budd Schulberg over the weekend and a few things occurred to me: 1. The above picture of Schulberg at his typewriter with his cat standing next to him is possibly one of the top five most writerly writer pictures I’ve ever seen.  Budd Schulberg is now like a God for a million Tumblrs that include pictures of writers, cats, and/or things you type on. 2.  This 1989 People profile on the late Schulberg is […]

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