Morning Bites: Goodbye Seersucker, Ted Sanders, Infograph Time, Book It! and More

Edward Champion reads Augie March. Fact: You can’t have Ben Greenman involved with your book and not expect at least one infograph at McSweeney’s Internet Tendency. Karen Russell inspires some Pizza Hut Book It! talk at Galley Cat. Ted Sanders contributes to this week’s Recommended Reading. The days of bipartisan seersucker are now a thing of the past. Ever wonder how the term “Can of worms” originated? Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.

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Morning Bites: Robert Caro Talking, Willy Loman’s Inability to Pay for Tickets, Screaming Females, and More

Willy Loman would have a difficult time affording the 2012 revival of the play Arthur Miller wrote about him. When Robert Caro met the Bat Segundo Show. Emily St. John Mandel gives Largehearted Boy her Book Notes for The Lola Quartet. Levi Asher on Laurent Binet’s HHhH. James Ladsun at The Guardian also reviewed the book. For good measure, here’s our own Joe Winkler’s review of the book. Screaming Females covering Sheryl Crow. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.

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Bites: Hemon and McCann Talk, Jack London’s 134th Birthday, Because Paul Auster Says so, Yummy Fur, and More

Aleksandar Hemon talks with with Colum McCann nin the new issue of The Believer.  I love both writers, but I put this at the top so I could post the Tony Millionaire illustration. People care that it’s the 134th anniversary of Jack London’s birth. If Paul Auster says that Paul Auster is putting out a new novel, it must be true. Steve Almond weighs in on Katie Roiphe’s males writers and sex fiction piece. Weird writer rituals. Dave Eggers talks […]

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