The Detroit News on Julia Reyes Taubman’s photobook Detroit: 138 Square Miles If you’re looking to read one piece on skateboarding that has a Don DeLillo quote, The Classical has got you covered. Two of our favorites, Deborah Eisenberg and Emma Straub, tell us about their year in reading at The Millions. Vogue picks their best books of 2011. Annie Proulx’s The Shipping News: Meh or pretty okay? The books that Lev Grossman is looking forward to in 2012. Pictures from a Pop Up Flea. Singer […]
Give some money to New Amsterdam Presents
New Amsterdam Presents is a brand new, non-profit presenting organization that carries the mission and spirit of New Amsterdam Records into the live performance realm. For nearly five years, New Amsterdam Records, operating as a non-profit-model record label that distributed 80% of album revenues directly to artists, has released albums of sophisticated, viscerally-engaging, all-original music, made by musicians who bring the breadth of their musical experience into the playing, writing, and producing on their albums. New Amsterdam Presents was formed to bring that music […]
Morning Bites: Birthdays for Larry Bird and Willa Cather, Bolaño’s Nazis, Victoria Legrand on Air, and more
Willa Cather, Tom Waits, and Larry Bird all celebrate birthdays today. Who had the better jump shot? We’re going to go with Cather. At Tablet: Nazis and the work of Roberto Bolaño. Levi Asher on Vonnegut and Vonnegut biographies. Don’t want your mind wandering? A Yale study says to meditate. Jonny Greenwood to score P.T. Anderson’s The Master. Air teams up with Victoria Legrand of Beach House for the ultimate indie baby making collaboration. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, and […]
Morning Bites: Flannery in ’59, Eugenides in England, Neal Stephenson in the Times, Wayne Koestenbaum, and more
A 1959 recording of Flannery O’Connor reading “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” Jeffrey Eugenides hangs out in England and makes a video. Wayne Koestenbaum is interviewed on The Bat Segundo Show. The Nervous Breakdown gives us their 2011 Nobbies, and it’s a fine list. Cyberpunk writer Neal Stephenson is profiled in the New York Times. Jonathan Lethem on Philip K. Dick. Forever 21 has pulled the Flipper shirt. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, and our Tumblr.
Morning Bites: Balzac’s food, literary personal ads, Dennis Cooper, notes from a talk, and more
Vintage Moby-Dick fabric courtesy of Etsy. The foods of Honoré de Balzac. Dennis Cooper talks with Brad Listi at the Other People podcast. N+1 and The New York Review of Books team up for some personal ad action. Ed Park’s notes from a Nicholson Baker talk. PopMatters reviews Ersatz G.B., the latest album by The Fall. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, and our Tumblr.
Philip Glass speaks to OWS demonstrators
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Morning Bites: Ghost signs, Kio Stark, Ian MacKaye talks archive, Quintron, and more
A new book chronicles the fading “ghost signs” of New York City. Jeffrey Eugenides is Michael Silverblatt’s latest guest on Bookworm. Kio Stark thinks you to learn anything without going back to school. Salon does a roundup of great indie bookstores. Mayor Michael Blooberg sucks more and more every day. At Pitchfork, Brandon Stosuy talks to Ian MacKaye about the Fugazi live show archive. Quintron and Miss Pussycat are back. Daniel Blumberg from Yuck has some artwork he’d like to […]
Two young intellectual dudes talking about Guy Debord
Posted by Jason Diamond I take back every single time made fun of the New York Times in the past. I take it all back because of one single quote from the piece on The New Inquiry: “Tim Barker, a junior at Columbia, awkwardly admitted that he, too, had chosen a reading from Debord. (What are the odds?)” What are the odds that two dudes hanging out in a secret bookstore would both be looking to read a little Guy […]