Two reviews of an Alice Munro adaptation, interviews with Leslie Jamison and Lucy Knisley, Karen Russell on her new novella, and more.
A visit to Eudora Welty’s house, the latest album from Luna & Galaxie 500’s Dean Wareham, an Edward Hopper-inspired novella, an adaptation of a beloved Alice Munro short story, and more.
Alice Munro’s Nobel acceptance speech, an interview with James McBride, reading recommendations from Adelle Waldman and Paul Harding, new music from The Fall, and more.
Over dinner after drinks, my friend and I eavesdrop and happen to hear two women talking about books. One of them summarizes The Love Affairs of Nathaniel P. as “all set in Brooklyn.” My friend and I make faces at each other and keep listening. Other books are brought up, but none of their selling points seem to us as crushing as the first. “All set in Brooklyn.” “I have to read that” was the response, in case you didn’t […]
A look at the books of Orange is the New Black, Black Flag lawsuits, writers’ retirements, ways to preserve endangered media, and much more.
Visiting the home of a 19th-century children’s book author, reading about dogs demonic and sacred, new music from Destruction Unit, and the birthdays of two beloved authors.
Art of the 1920s hits the Cleveland Museum, and Huffington Post has a slideshow for it. The Millions has put together a great Alice Munro primer for beginners. Rosie Schaap talks pepper vodka. Fifty years of James Bond style. Some great photos of Brooklyn gangs of the 1950s at Flavorwire. Jason on the latest record in the long Ian Svenonius discography. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.
In honor of Valentine’s Day, Vol. 1 today presents a special Monday edition of Indexing, in which our editors talk about their favorite examples of literary love, sex, and romances doomed and enduring from a variety of great books. Tobias Carroll Coming of age, I took many a life lesson from the books, music, and movies around me — everything from punk records to Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of The Age of Innocence. More recently, I’ve learned that most of these […]