In our morning reading: Patrick Leigh Fermor, Carl Wilson on the reissued Let’s Talk About Love, a discussion of realism in fiction, and more,
This afternoon: Tobi Vale interviews Meredith Graves, new Alison Espach fiction, Carl Wilson on tragedies and folk songs, Bill Cotter gets interviewed, and more.
Talking soccer with Eduardo Galeano; Carl Wilson interviewed Jonathan Lethem; Elizabeth Ellen reviewed Scott McClanahan’s latest book; Tim Hecker gets profiled; and more.
Carl Wilson’s Celine Dion book gets a deluxe edition; new music from Tim Hecker and White Lung; Andrew Wylie talks with The New Republic; and more reading to start out your day.
A meeting with one of the writers featured in Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives, recapping Neil Gaiman’s book tour, a look at Alina Simone’s latest, Carl Wilson on reunion tours, and more,
Books about polar bear obsessives (kind of), Lena Dunham’s favorite Criterion Collection films, a new Kevin Sampsell essay, cinematic sportscasters, and more.
“By now it should be obvious that Jackie Shane wasn’t bringing his act to Toronto so it could be better understood. Instead he was taking it out of context, to someplace where it seemed more alien and strange. Maybe he liked it better that way.” Carl Wilson explores the life of Jackie Shane. Margaret Atwood was interviewed at the Los Angeles Festival of Books. Ron Hogan looked at the first few episodes of Hemlock Grove. (Our review of the novel on which […]
The New York Times on how political reporters read. Michael Robbins on David Foster Wallace. Carl Wilson on Leonard Cohen. The story behind New York‘s amazing blackout cover. New Janet Malcolm nonfiction in the New York Review of Books. Clearly I Didn’t Think This Through author Anna Goldfarb is profiled in Metro today. Joe Winkler looks at Christopher Hitchens’s Mortality. Proceeds from Dan Deacon’s New York shows later this month will go towards Hurricane Sandy relief. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.