Amelia Gray – Page 6 – Vol. 1 Brooklyn

Afternoon Bites: “Seinfeld” Art, Janet Malcolm, Tim Harrington’s Children’s Book, and More

May 1, 2013 No Comments

“As a critic, Malcolm owns her biases, and allows the reader to join her as she interrogates what these predilections reveal about gender, race, class, and the other thorny issues.” At The New Republic, Cara Parks on the career of Janet Malcolm. MobyLives interviewed J.A. Tyler about the end of Mud Luscious Press. Richard Prince’s Seinfeld-inspired composite. Would you like to hear a song from Tim Harrington’s upcoming children’s book? Claire Messud: interviewed. (And here’s some commentary from David Daley.) Amelia Gray: also interviewed! […]

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Afternoon Bites: Postal Service Auditions, PEN/Faulkner Nominees, Matt Bell Interviewed, Illuminati Girl Gang, and More

March 6, 2013 No Comments

“We live in a world that for the most part does not value what we do as writers and in response we waste our time complaining about degrees and pedigrees instead of making the big art that might actually silence our critics—or at least bring new readers back into the fold.” Matt Bell says smart things at Nineteen Questions. There is a comprehensive look at the writing of Ta-Nehisi Coates at the Observer. Also, both of these make us very excited: […]

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Afternoon Bites: Elverum’s Playlist, Fake Art, Amelia Gray’s Fiction, and More

January 16, 2013 No Comments

Phil Elverum made a playlist for K Records. The Brooklyn Museum has a fake art problem. New fiction from Amelia Gray at The American Reader. The time The Zombies visited Abbey Road… Blake Butler was interviewed at Willow Springs. Ben Donnelly on the Loop reissues at Dusted. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + our Tumblr, and sign up for our mailing list.

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Afternoon Bites: New Amelia Gray & Kathleen Alcott Stories, Sasquatch Lit, Califone’s Reissue, and More

November 7, 2012 No Comments

New Kathleen Alcott fiction is up at Five Stories. If you liked that, might we also interest you in her Sunday Story? New Amelia Gray fiction is up at Joyland. Tim Rutili of Califone talked with Brooklyn Vegan about their just-reissued first album. Cherie Priest on her new novel The Inexplicables, which may feature a sasquatch. We’re totally sold. The James Bond/Abraham Lincoln comparison you didn’t know you were waiting for. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.

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Afternoon Bites: A Love Letter to Joan, Armistead Maupin Leaves, That One Guy Shot Himself, and more

June 20, 2012 No Comments

Jessica Hopper wrote a love letter to Joan Didion for Rookie. Armistead Maupin is leaving San Francisco for Santa Fe, but not before he and his husband go to Burning Man this summer. We learned more than expected from this announcement, needless to say. Amelia Gray has a new story up at Vice. Remember that guy who went hitchhiking for a memoir and then got shot by an anonymous driver? Yeah, he made that up. Two strippers with somewhat uninspired […]

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Afternoon Bites: The Adam Wilson/Don Draper Letters, John Zorn, Val Kilmer As Mark Twain, And More

March 29, 2012 No Comments

“I am drawn to confusion: how we try to make sense of things, relationships, work, our family history, and how we cope, both in healthy and unhealthy ways, as well as compulsions, how we get stuck, and our desire to be unstuck, mostly, but not entirely, because those compulsions are part of our worldview.” Chicago’s Ben Tanzer is interviewed at Big Other. (We reviewed his Hold Steady-inspired novel You Can Make Him Like You last year.) A John Zorn-directed film […]

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Afternoon Bites: Songs About Steinbeck, Rules From Kerouac, Heidi Julavits Interviewed, And More

March 23, 2012 2 Comments

“Be crazy dumbsaint of the mind” Hey, it’s the Jack Kerouac guide to life (and also to prose). At Capital New York, Jacob Silverman talks to Heidi Julavits. “What I was coming to understand, though, was that my mother did not come into the world fully formed in 1981, when I was born, that there was a complicated and somehow painful life that predated me.” Elisabeth Donnelly on watching Mad Men with her mother. Anthology Film Archives is hosting a […]

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Morning Bites: Feedback Press, Vonnegut Novella, Amelia Gray On Water, Hunger Games, And More

March 23, 2012 No Comments

Have you checked out Feedback Press? Obviously we’re excited because our own Tobias Carroll is involved (figured that needed to be mentioned), but chapbooks by Maura Johnston, Mike McGonigal, and other great people is something we’d mention anyway. An unreleased Kurt Vonnegut novella from the late 1940s will be released today. Amelia Gray on the water in Los Angeles at GOOD. Hunger Games fever is upon us. We should probably mention the Wes Anderson commercial. Ancient Egypt making a comeback […]