Posted by Jason Diamond There’s a site dedicated to vintage library postcards that has been going strong since 2007, and I had absolutely no clue about it: Library Postcards. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, and our Tumblr.
Morning Bites: Václav Havel and the Velvet Underground, OWS Party, best historical fiction, shoegaze archives, and more
“How the Velvet Underground and Václav Havel built a blueprint for toppling totalitarians and other censors.” – Matt Welch & Nick Gillespie at Reason.com David Remnick put together a Václav Havel reading list. Daniel Pinchbeck, Lenny Kravitz’s daughter, and a Gossip Girl star throw a posh Occupy Wall Street party. The best historical fiction of 2011 from NPR Books. The Chicago Tribune picks its favorite Windy City works from 2011. Captured Tracks has a new Shoegaze Archives series they’re working on. […]
Christopher Hitchens died for your free drinks
Posted by Jason Diamond I’m willing to guess that if Hitchens was wrong about the not believing in God stuff, the last thing he wants to see is a drink you placed outside of his apartment to commemorate his passing. (Via Imgur) Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, and our Tumblr.
Pledge your support to Best Music Writing
Posted by Jason Diamond As Toby mentioned a little over a week ago, Best Music Writing is going indie and could use your support. The best way to do that: be the person to donate $5,000 dollars to the cause at their Kickstarter*. *If you can’t afford 5K, they will gladly take one dollar. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, and our Tumblr.
Your dose of The Fugs
Posted by Jason Diamond Fug You: An Informal History of the Peace Eye Bookstore, the Fuck You Press, The Fugs, and Counterculture in the Lower East Side is out, and while I have not had a chance to read it (I’m guessing it would have maybe ended up on my Best Of list), there’s a whole lot of good press going on for it, including Royal Young talking to chief Fug Ed Sanders at Interview: The Vietnam War was like a […]
Morning Bites: Christopher Hitchens, Bronte bidding wars, Man Ray’s datebooks, Pitchfork’s faves of 2011, and more
“May his 62 years of living, well, so livingly console the many of us who will miss him dearly.” – Vanity Fair’s tribute to the late Christopher Hitchens. Dashiell Bennett at The Atlantic also pays tribute to Hitchens. The Charlotte Bronte bidding wars. At The Rumpus: Peter Orner on the stories of Isaac Babel. Man Ray’s datebooks. Pitchfork names its top 50 albums of the year. And #1 is… The folks at Capital New York round up everything that makes them happy this week. […]
A year of favorites: Jason’s 2011 Best Of list
Posted by Jason Diamond I’ve written and read my share of year-end lists, and I’m at the point now where I’m not totally sure what sort of purpose they serve, but I continue to read and write them anyway. I’m not trying to sound jaded about peoples roundups of the year that was, in fact I rather like them and really enjoy doing my own. I guess my issue tends to be more of the way you’ve got to dig […]
Morning Bites: Cocker talks poetry, letters from Orwell, Marissa Nadler video, very short stories, and more
Quintron’s Magic House in New Orleans. It would seem that the writer who wrote the Slate article “Don’t Support Your Local Bookseller,” and called indie bookstores being “cultish,” isn’t too popular. Send Electric Literature your short story of 30 to 300 words. Marcel the Shell makes it onto NBC. Jarvis Cocker talks a little bit of poetry. Letters from George Orwell. A new video for Marissa Nadler’s “In Your Lair, Bear.” Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, and our Tumblr.