We’d like to congratulate our friend Bob Powers (above) for getting his book The Werewolf’s Guide to Life mentioned in a Gawker post titled “Satanic Sex Ritual Threesome Not as Awesome as It Sounds.” Jonathan Franzen talks The Corrections on HBO, and Edith Wharton with Vulture. Stephen King is donating $70,000 to help keep low-income Maine residents warm this winter. On Megan Boyle’s Selected Unpublished Blog Posts of a Mexican Panda Express Employee. Just a heavy metal legend hanging out in Greenpoint, signing copies of his […]
Tonight: Our Bodies, Our Junk Fights Sam Lipsyte to the Death (in Our Heads)
Our Bodies, Our Junk, is pretty much the funniest book off the year. Authored by The Association for the Betterment of Sex, aka a group of comedy writers with an incredibly sick comedy writing pedigree (Google the names of Mike Sacks, Scott Jacobson, Todd Levin, Ted Travelstead, and Jason Roeder. See what comes up). Those guys will be up on stage tonight at Bob Powers, Jason Reich, and Scott Jacobson’s always fun (and funny) Steamboat series at Greenlight Bookstore. I […]
Quick Questions for Bob Powers
Bob Powers: The man, the myth, the guy who makes us nearly pee ourselves with delight every time he gets up on a stage, who has written adult choose your own adventure books, and survival guides for werewolves. Forget all that. Bob also hosts (along former Daily Show writers Jason Reich and Scott Jacobson) the monthly funny literary series called Steamboat, at the always awesome Greenlight Bookstore. The next one, on March 18th, Steamboat brings you Julie Klausner, Mike Albo, […]
Abraham Lincoln the Vampire Slayer
We have said all we could about zombies. In fact, we were really counting on Bob Powers to be right with his claim that werewolves are the right monster for these times, and maybe put the undead back in their graves. But no, Seth Grahame-Smith had to go and screw everything up again by announcing that in March, 2010, he is putting out Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter. So now instead of zombies we get a dead president killing blood suckers. […]
Happening: Our Launch Party/Storytelling 1 Year Anniversary!!!
On Thursday, October 29th, Vol. 1 Brooklyn will celebrate an anniversary and a birth. Join us in celebrating the official launch of our website, Vol1Brooklyn.com. Born out of a passion for news, opinions, observations and conversations, Vol1Brooklyn.com is the literary-minded culture blog of your dreams. The same evening marks the first birthday of our reading series, Vol. 1 Brooklyn Storytelling. With the simple conviction that everyone has a story to tell–and those stories should be told–Vol. 1 Storytelling has over […]