Brian Evenson – Page 13 – Vol. 1 Brooklyn

Amphetamine Reptile Lit: A Discussion of Brian Evenson

January 15, 2013 No Comments

Over the course of several months, Tobias Carroll and R. Stephen Shodin discussed the work of Brian Evenson. It’s not really a surprise why; Evenson occupies a particular sweet spot between the visceral and the intellectual. He seems equally at home discussing literary theory as he is writing a novel about mutilation-based cults; he’s a writer, editor, translator, and educator whose work is often brutally compelling. His work has the ability to spring to life after laying dormant in a […]

Indexing

Indexing: Pulphead Whirlwind, Kris D’Agostino Love, Flatscreen On An Ipad, John Leonard, And More

March 24, 2012 1 Comment

A roundup of things consumed by our contributors.

Bites

Afternoon Bites: The Early Years Of The Paris Review, Brian Evenson On Evil, Epitaph Records, And More

March 20, 2012 No Comments

“For a villain to be effective in literature, there must exist for readers the potential for a complex combination of recognition and repulsion. An ability for us both to see ourselves within them and also a desire not to see ourselves in them, to resist this identification.” Brian Evenson on the role of evil in his own work, and that of Cormac McCarthy. Robert Silvers, interviewed at The Paris Review about said magazine’s early days. Michael Czyzniejewski, interviewed at The Collagist. Edward Champion […]

Bites

Afternoon Bites: Nick Antosca on Satire, Rosie Schaap on Soccer Bars, Brian Evenson and Rob Zombie Team Up, And More

March 7, 2012 No Comments

Adam Wilson made Electric Literature a mixtape. Also, he weighs in on the eternal Klosterman/tUnE-yArDs debate: “I like Chuck Klosterman a lot, but he’s totally wrong.” (In case you missed it, Joe Winkler reviewed Wilson’s Flatscreen earlier this week.) Roxane Gay puts in her two cents on the whole Franzen/Twitter kerfuffle. The Collagist catches up with Nick Antosca, author of Midnight Picnic and The Obese. Mike Pace, singer/guitarist of the sorely missed Oxford Collapse, is back with a new project, […]

Bites

Afternoon Bites: Henry Rollins, Roxane Gay, Brian Evenson, and more

December 12, 2011 No Comments

Have you been wondering about what Henry Rollins has been reading lately? If so, Ron Hogan might be able to help find an answer to that very question. Brian Evenson will be reading in Brooklyn next month. J.A. Tyler reviewed Vincent Standley’s novel A Mortal Affect. (Our review of the novel in question can be found here.) Roxane Gay is interviewed over at Full Stop. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, and our Tumblr.

Books, reviews

Reviewed: Brian Evenson’s “Contagion and Other Stories”

November 29, 2011 No Comments

Review by Tobias Carroll Contagion and Other Stories by Brian Evenson Astrophil Press; 137 p. Read the fiction of Brian Evenson and you’ll quickly find yourself enmeshed in religious fanaticism, inquiries into the nature of reality, and an abundance of violence. Evenson’s fiction occupies a rare place: he’s a prose stylist and occasional translator whose fondness for the raw joys of pulp fiction is undeniable. Some of his work veers into outright horror, while other stories adopt aspects of crime […]