Larry Bird vs. Magic Johnson: The Musical? Cormac McCarthy doing Yelp reviews. (We really want this to be real.) Lorin Stein of The Paris Review is a stylish dude. The NYPL president gets caught driving drunk. From typeface to Bob Dylan’s book, Slate picks some new classics. A.O. Scott revisits Sam Peckinpah’s 1969 Western The Wild Bunch. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, and our Tumblr.
Afternoon Bites: OWS panel, Woody Allen as a Master, new Lutz, mustache buttons,and more
Woody Allen gets the American Masters treatment from PBS. Too bad they didn’t get Ken Burns to direct it. That would have been pretty hilarious. Tonight: n+1 and Housing Works present a panel on Occupy Wall Street. More info here. The Rumpus discusses divorcer, the new collection by Gary Lutz. At The Paris Review: Adam Wilson discusses his obsession with Owen Wilson. (No relation.) Buttons featuring every mustache worn by a Daniel Day-Lewis character. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, and our Tumblr.
Keith Gessen as a pop culture reference on Gossip Girl
Posted by Jason Diamond Keith Gessen getting name-dropped on Gossip Girl is cool, but with all due respect, it’s no Norman Mailer on the Gilmore Girls… Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, and our Tumblr.
Morning Bites: Camus the (almost) Jew, Marriage Plot movie, Lethem’s week, new Walkmen, and more
Scott Rudin bought the rights to Jeffrey Eugenides’ bestselling novel The Marriage Plot. Remember back in the day (3 weeks ago) when HBO was buying every book that ever came out? Albert Camus: almost a Jew. Giancarlo DiTrapano (New York Tyrant) is interviewed at Dark Sky Magazine. Writer and organizer of literary events in Hudson, NY, Chloe Caldwell, is interviewed by Electric Literature. Jonathan Lethem’s book of essays, The Ecstasy of Influence, is reviewed. Lethem is visiting the People’s Library at Occupy […]
Get hooked on Fame Juice
Posted by Jason Diamond Royal Young has been responsible for a lot of the great literary coverage in Interview as of late (his talk with Blake Butler is worth another read), and his unpublished memoir Fame Shark has already caused quite a bit of discussion. Hopefully this beautifully shot mini-film will help give you some insight into what the book is all about.
Morning Bites: Moby-Dick illustrations, Wilde Boys, Helena Bonham Havisham, old book smell, and more
Josh Spilker at Impose on the Moby-Dick illustrations of Matt Kish. We talked to Mr. Kish in 2009. Speaking of drawing literary giants… “I invited the cute gay poets right away,” Mr. Dimitrov said. “I sort of had a list of gays that I wanted to come, and some of them that I wanted to sleep with.” – Wilde Boys Poetry Salon founder Alex Dimitrov to the New York Times. On the smell of old books. Pictures surface of Helena […]
Dealing with the homeless guy who stole the galley I needed
Posted by Jason Diamond I have this sneaking suspicion that there’s a homeless guy who is stealing my mail. I don’t have much evidence, except for the fact that a record I bough on eBay, and a galley copy of Mike Edison’s Dirty! Dirty! Dirty! (watch the 3-D trailer for the book) have found their way to the guy’s sidewalk bazaar a block away from my house. The record I can just listen to on Spotify, but I needed to give that book to a […]
Morning Bites: Joshua Cohen, The Corrections on HBO, new Atlas Sound, comedy albums, and more
“Describing Joshua Cohen’s wonderful and elliptical novel A Heaven of Others is a bit like attempting to rehash an acid trip—no analysis can quite do justice to the feel of the experience.” – Adam Wilson reviews Joshua Cohen’s A Heaven of Others at Bookforum. Somewhere in the world there is a collaboration between Blur and poet Michael Horovitz. Jonathan Franzen’s The Corrections is officially a thing on HBO. The new Atlas Sound album Parallax is streaming at the New York Times. It is very much […]