Reviews of Atticus Lish’s new novel and Cult of Youth’s new album; an excerpt from Sarah Gerard’s forthcoming Binary Star; Sean Michaels and Sofia Samatar on winning awards; and more.
In our morning reading: Joseph Heller’s foray into writing a musical, Maud Newton interviewed Celeste Ng, Pitchfork on the reissue of Afghan Whigs’ Gentlemen, reviews of books by Atticus Lish and Richard Ford, and more.
In our morning reading: thoughts on books by Claudia Rankine and Atticus Lish, a Joan Didion documentary is on the way, indie publishing in Minneapolis, horror fiction with sinister children, and more.
You might not expect a book abounding with illustrations of grotesque, sometimes terrifying, figures to open with a warm personal statement explaining the artist’s search for friendship. And yet that’s how Atticus Lish’s Life Is With People begins — which in turn provided Vol.1 Brooklyn editors Jason Diamond and Tobias Carroll a fine starting point for their own discussion of Lish’s book, just released by Tyrant Books.
The Paul Smith designed cover for Granta’s latest issue is quite nice looking, isn’t it? (Via Galley Cat) What happened to Emily Gould’s $200,000 book advance? Electric Lit. goes to KGB Bar to party with Atticus Lish and friends. Carole King talks to NPR about her memoir, A Natural Woman. Can a nearly all-white horse win the Kentucky Derby? Open Culture found Quentin Tarantino’s 1987 debut film. Rough Trade Records comes to Brooklyn. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.
Carl Wilson — who knows a thing or two about Celine Dion — looks at “My Heart Will Go On” for The Atlantic. Jac Jemc’s novel My Only Wife is out now on Dzanc, and Good Men Project has an excerpt up. If you live in Portland, Oregon and like both literary magazines and science, you might be happy to know that Tin House is holding a science fair to celebrate the release of their latest issue. At New York, Jessica Grose gives us a guide […]
Maybe spend 13-minutes listening to people talk about Guy Debord’s “Society of the Spectacle” to start your morning? Former Vice editor Jesse Pearson is teaming up with Sam McPheeters to Exploded View, which Capital New York says will “fall somewhere in the center of the lit-mag spectrum.” Our own Tobias Carroll talks to Kris D’Agostino for L Magazine. Lincoln Michel at The Paris Review on a chess hoax. Atticus Lish will be reading from his book, Life Is with People, at KGB […]