This month brings with it the release of Clarice Lispector’s The Complete Stories. In her review of the book for the Los Angeles Review of Books, Stephanie La Cava wrote, “Lispector uses her words carefully, endeavoring to find something close to ‘reality,’ all the time knowing she will not.” We’re pleased to present an evening centered around this collection of work from an essential writer. Discussing Lispector’s work and influence will be Porochista Khakpour and Benjamin Moser. This event will take […]
Vol.1 Brooklyn Presents the Greatest 3-Minute Midwestern Stories
Flyover states or the heart of America? The Rust Belt, cities with big shoulders, lakes on fire, God’s Country; miles of corn, cows, tall buildings, bodies of water, big sprawling cities, and bucolic tiny towns. Cities that work, and others that don’t; political corruption, small minded people and really big thinkers. The Midwest is America, and on September 17th at Housing Works, these readers will explore why that is. Alexander Chee Leigh Stein Kashana Cauley Ashley Ford Abraham Riesman Meredith […]
Announcing New Jersey Stories at WORD Jersey City
As part of this year’s Chilltown Literary Festival, we’ll be hosting several of our favorite writers to tell stories of the Garden State. Featuring: A. N. Devers on Asbury Park’s hauntedness Nicole Haroutunian on Six Flags Maggie Serota on Danzig Jon Solomon on City Gardens
Announcing the Greatest 3-Minute Touring Stories at Pitchfork Music Festival
We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be taking part in this year’s Pitchfork Music Festival. We’ll be holding a 3-Minute Stories event at the Book Fort; the topic this time out will be touring, in all of its shapes, sizes, and permutations. Reading will be: Maura Johnston Jes Skolnik Jill Mapes Lindsay Hunter Aaron Burch Katy Henriksen Paul de Revere Dmitry Samarov
Announcing Helen McClory and Susan Rukeyser at WORD
Last year, we published a short story by Helen McClory titled “Pink Glitter.” We’ve been fans of her work ever since, and we’re eagerly anticipating her collection On the Edges of Vision (and her follow-up, due out from Civil Coping Mechanisms next year.) We’re pleased to announce that we’ll be hosting Helen, along with Susan Rukeyser, author of Not On Fire, Only Dying (which has a glowing blurb from James Ellroy, among others) at WORD on Thursday, September 3rd, at […]
Vol.1 Brooklyn Presents: Slice Harvester at WORD Brooklyn
Colin Atrophy Hagendorf turned a great idea into a zine, and now he’s turned that zine into a memoir. Slice Harvester is probably the greatest pizza zine that you will ever read, and now it’s the best memoir about pizza, punk rock, and trying to eat every slice in New York City while just trying to get by. Vol. 1 is excited to host Colin, along with five other readers who will all tell stories about one of our favorite […]
Announcing Alexis Coe and Margaret Eby In Conversation at Community Bookstore
In Alice + Freda Forever, Alexis Coe recounts a tragic, true-life love story that shocked America in 1892. To marry 17-year-old Freda Ward, 19-year-old Alice Mitchell attempted to pass as a man, but their forbidden love ended not in bliss but in bloodshed. Coe uses over 100 love letters, maps, artifacts, and other historical material to document a teenage murder that shocked the nation. Alexis will be in conversation with journalist and critic Margaret Eby.
Two July Events: Sandwich Stories and 20 Years of Being Clueless
This July, Vol. 1 is proud to present two very unique 3-Minute Story events. The first celebrates the release of our first zine for our Julius Singer imprint, and the other celebrates the greatest teen movie ever with our friends at Refinery 29.