That’s Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln for the Dec. 2012 film “Lincoln,” which is based on Doris Kearns Goodwin’s book Team of Rivals. (Via) “It was the weekly meeting of The New Inquiry, a scrappy online journal and roving clubhouse that functions as an Intellectuals Anonymous of sorts for desperate members of the city’s literary underclass barred from the publishing establishment.” – The New Inquiry gets a big writeup at the New York Times. Tired of signing every hot contemporary author up for […]
In the event you didn’t click the link about 300 years of British newspapers going digital…
Here’s a handy video. Now go read about Jack the Ripper.
This is not a punk shirt
Posted by Jason Diamond Once upon a time it was a punk shirt. Kurt Cobain made one with a marker and wore it on Saturday Night Live in 1992. Now it’s considered retro and being sold at Forever 21. The only good that can come out of this shirt is that it has given me reason to post this video of Flipper doing “Sex Bomb” in the 80s. Update: Also to note from the Forever 21 Wikipedia: “Forever 21 has […]
Morning Bites: Mark Twain and Bo Jackson eating birthday cake, Morrissey Gets a Job, British newspapers, and more
Jonathan Swift, Mark Twain, Winston Churchill, and Bo Jackson were all born on this day. Only Twain got a Google Doodle, proving that Bo don’t know Google Doodles. Morrissey Gets a Job is probably our favorite thing of the week. 300 years of British newspapers are now available online at The British Newspaper Archive. More on the fate of the OWS library by Emily Witt at The Observer. N+1 on Occupy LSX. Royal Young talks to Nancy Milford about Zelda […]
Quarterly Co. and the shortcut to gift giving greatness
Posted by Emily Goldsher While everyone else keeps themselves up at night over what gifts to give friends and family this holiday season, you can sleep easy, because Quarterly Co. has rendered the problem moot. Last year, you gave your girlfriend sweatpants, and she never forgave you. Your mom made a weird face when you got her yet another cookbook, and your dad still has no clue how to work his Kindle. Let’s not even talk about what you gave your boss, […]
Morning Bites: Charlotte Brontë Lady, Miranda July’s Craigslist stuff, Stalin’s Daughter, Lydia Lunch, and more
Our new hero is this lady who lives her life dressed like Charlotte Brontë. Do you want to buy stuff Miranda July bought off Craigslist? Lydia Lunch meets Dominique Strauss Kahn in a purely fictional way at 3: AM Magazine. Julie Klausner talks about the most Jewish episodes of her How Was Your Week? podcast. Barack Obama: fan of indie bookstores. Joseph Stalin’s daughter passed away at the age of 85. Scott Walker is doing a bang up job in Wisconsin. (No […]
L.L. Cool S: Ladies Love Salman Rushdie
Posted by Jason Diamond It seems that Salman Rushdie has passed up the chance to make a go of it with Courtney Love, and instead is now a “thing” with Social Life Magazine editor-in-chief Devorah Rose. We only care because Page Six told us. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, and our Tumblr.
Conversations: Emily Gould
Tonight at Housing Works, people will gather to celebrate the official launch of Emily Books, the ebookstore started by Emily Gould and Ruth Curry. We figured it was no better time to talk to Gould about the last year-and-a-half of her life which included putting out her first book, bringing a popular web series to a close, and becoming a business owner.