Posted by Jason Diamond I will hopefully do many great things in my life, and if I can somehow do enough to earn such a fantastic obituary as the late travel writer Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor had written for him by the BBC, then I will smile down from heaven and say, “You know what? I lived a damn good life.” Sir Patrick Leigh Fermor, who has died aged 96, was both a man of action and an intellectual. That’s […]
Vol. 1 Managing Editor one of New York’s hottest bachelors
Our own Tobias Carroll is one of Time Out New York’s most eligible singles. He bakes bread, he writes, he’s a HTML GIANT tag, and he can be yours.
Morning Bites: Open City, Rudolph Herzog, Kurt Cobain’s member, and more
Pop Candy on Open City ceasing publication of their magazine, and the release of They’re at it Again: An Open City Reader. They’re reading a lot in Miami: The 20 most “well-read cities in America.” Rudolph Herzog talks about the book he wrote, Dead Funny: Humor in Hitler’s Germany, as a way to confront his grandparents’ Nazi past. Howard Jacobson is on the latest episode of Bookworm. Aren’t you glad to know that Kurt Cobain had a great penis?
Happy Birthday, Stevie Nicks
Posted by Jason Diamond You know what would be a great new genre I’d welcome? Stevie Nicks Fan Fiction. Think about it: Take some of her lyrics, her onstage banter, and maybe throw in some of her true personal stories about her time in Fleetwood Mac and after, and you might have some of the craziest, raunchiest books ever. Anyways, happy birthday Stevie. May you live to be a million years old.
TOMORROW: Vol. 1 Presents “CIVIC PRIDE: Washington D.C.” with Nathan Larson, Sara Marcus, Michael Kimball, and Zack Barocas!
Posted by Nick Curley Vol. 1 Brooklyn‘s obscenely popular quarterly series CIVIC PRIDE, focusing on writers from a specific city or state, returns to WORD Brooklyn tomorrow night! The editors of the V1 mothership are joined by an outstanding quartet of DC natives: Nathan Larson (Shudder to Think, The Dewey Decimal System), Michael Kimball (Us), Sara Marcus (Girls to the Front), and Zach Barocas (Jawbox, Bells)! Need we even add that the festivities will also include tons of free beer? […]
Random: That Time Tony Danza met Arthur Miller
Posted by Jason Diamond There was a time when Who’s the Boss met Death of a Salesman.
Leonard Cohen Reading Poetry, 1966
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Hunter S. Thompson, John Cusack and Johnny Depp Cruising Around with a Blow-Up Doll
Because you need to see a picture of Hunter S. Thompson, John Cusack and Johnny Depp riding around with a blow-up doll. (Via I Heart Chaos)