Talking with Marc Ribot and Stacey D’Erasmo, Ta-Nehisi Coates on reparations, writers recommend short stories, and more.
Afternoon Bites: Marc Ribot, Recommended Short Stories, Ta-Nehisi Coates on Reparations, Stacey D’Erasmo Interviewed, and More
Almost Live at Mellow Pages: Natalie Eilbert and Dolan Morgan of The Atlas Review
This episode, we sat down with Natalie Eilbert and Dolan Morgan from The Atlas Review. We covered a lot in the conversation—the origins and future of their magazine, blind submissions, the kind of work they’re looking for, Dolan’s hair, Natalie’s forthcoming work, and Dolan indulged us and took the first shot at a new part of the show Eric really wanted to see happen—and we really hope you have as much fun listening to it as we obviously had participating […]
Dolan Morgan’s Book Trailer Has Knives, Goats, and a Diagrammed Dog’s Head
Dolan Morgan’s writing has appeared on Vol.1 Brooklyn multiple times. He’s also a poet, one of the editors of The Atlas Review, and one of the most entertaining readers you’re likely to hear. His collection That’s When the Knives Come Down is due out later this year; there’s a presale up for it now that offers a deeply wealthy patron the opportunity to destroy a large portion of its print run. There is also, as the title of this post might […]
The Zinophile: Collages Visual and Literary
Last weekend, I went to a reading in celebration of Atlas Review editor/Sunday Stories alumnus Dolan Morgan’s birthday. Also there was a pile of newspapers — specifically, one called New York City Fires, in which Morgan’s poetry rests beside the artwork of Tom Oristalgio. The poems in here take a lot of found material, juxtaposing 19th-century news articles with contemporary Yelp reviews of spaces at the same location. It sounds jarring, but it’s surprisingly effective, the gulf between the hyperbole […]
The Zinophile: Fragments, Arrivals, and Debates
I have few regrets from my recent trip to the Pacific Northwest, but atop the list was my inability to make it to the new location of the long-running indie bookstore Reading Frenzy. I was happy to hear of their successful fundraising campaign (to which I contributed, leading to a print with illustrations of a number of zines that now hangs in my living room), and hoped to make it up to their new space. An abbreviated stay, though, impeded […]
Morning Bites: Rushdie pulls out, Padgett Powell, Downton lit zombies, Alice Bag reviewed, and more
Salman Rushdie has pulled out of Jaipur literature festival, saying he fears assassination Muslim clerics protested against his participation. Cannonball Blog reviews Alice Bag’s Violence Girl. How Padgett Powell has written his way out of conventional storytelling. Is Downton Abbey reviving the careers of long dead authors? Dolan Morgan on the mythology of hijacking at Fortnight. (Also, read Dolan’s Sunday Story while you’re at it.) Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr. Got tips for Bites? Info@Vol1brooklyn.com