Alan Moore at the BBC, Factory Floor’s new album gets a rave at Pitchfork, Japanther releases a book, Peter Murphy makes a playlist, and more.
Lou Reed wrote about Kanye West, Jerry Saltz reports from Venice, Julia Wertz shares some unreleased comics, Alan Moore talks Kickstarter, and more.
“I try to create parasitic works, building on others’ creations—not just acknowledging the reader’s life outside of the book but (so I hope) pointing in fruitful directions for his or her distraction.” Gabriel Blackwell talked with The Lit Pub about his books Shadow Man and Critique of Pure Reason. Novelists on their first drafts. “And I loved spooky books about witches, or where a girl’s house is haunted by antique dead twins trying to inhabit their bodies. Shit like that was my jam. […]
The Grant Morrison/Alan Moore feud is rapidly becoming the stuff of legend. The New Yorker officially launched Double Take, a blog dedicated to unearthing treasures from the magazine’s archives. If these picks from the staff are any indication, we welcome the addition to our RSS feed. (As an aside: John McPhee’s articles always have the best keywords.) Jon Cotner talked family recipes. Emerging Writers Network on the latest issue of New York Tyrant. The first images have surfaced from Eli […]
Glen David Gold on Charles Portis and Flannery O’Connor. That time 43 authors showed up at a Park Slope coffee shop at 6 a.m.… Amber Sparks on Michael Kimball’s Big Ray. This weekend’s Moby-Dick marathon reading: recapped. There’s a new issue of Shabby Doll House. Alan Moore and TV On the Radio’s Tunde Adebimpe teamed up. Dennis Lim covered the Vienalle film festival for Artforum. McSweeney’s and the Flaming Lips are teaming up. Warren Ellis on Colm Toibin’s The Testament of Mary. John Calvert on Swans […]
At Dusted, Marc Medwin looks at the new edition of William Basinski’s The Disintegration Loops. Edward Albee talks with Jesse Green for New York. Dustin Kurtz takes us through Banned Books Week. Warren Ellis on politics and blasphemy. The Los Angeles Review of Books: now with 100% more Supreme Court Justice interviews. Design Observer has announced the winners of the 50 Books / 50 Covers competition. Tim Callahan revisits Alan Moore’s Promethea. Maura Johnston looks at Miguel’s Kaleidoscope Dream. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google […]
Matt Bell and Jac Jemc wrote two of our favorite books of 2012. And now Word Riot has an interview with both of them. Sean Howe has unearthed a 1983 essay about Stan Lee by Alan Moore. New Neurosis, everybody. Michael Connelly on James M. Cain’s lost novel. Michael Kimball made Largehearted Boy a playlist, and also chatted with Blake Butler at Vice. Julie McArthur’s story “Rivals” is highly recommended. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.
Posted by Tobias Carroll Over at Techland, a quartet of smart writers takes a look at Inside Man, the second collection of Mike Carey and Peter Gross’s comic book The Unwritten. The first collection, Tommy Taylor and the Bogus Identity, suggested that the series would be something resembling a metafictional take on the Harry Potter phenomenon. This volume suggests that Carey and Gross’s concerns are far more ambitious — and, as Techland’s roundtable suggests, this has benefits and drawbacks. (One […]