Columns, tobyreads

#tobyreads: Poems & Essays from Ackerson-Kiely & Myles & Dubus & Beard

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Last summer, Vol.1 took part in a day-long literary event in Prospect Heights, called Popsickle, which brought together readers chosen by a number of literary outlets. Among those reading for us was the Vermont-based poet Paige Ackerson-Kiely. Impressed by what I’d heard her read, I ended up picking up her collection My Love is a Dead Arctic Explorer. Reading it, I found myself saying, “Oh my God” in the middle of many a poem; it’s resonated with me in a way […]

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Books

We See An Eileen Myles Chapbook In Your Future

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Eileen Myles: we’re going to go out on a limb here and guess you might be a fan of her work, whether her poetry, her more autobiographical writings, or her art criticism. And so you might find it interesting that she’s contributed a chapbook, Vernacular Scholarship, to New Herring Press.  Maybe you’ll even be tempted to order a copy. (We don’t want to be presumptuous.) It’s probably also worth mentioning that Justin Torres, Amanda Davidson, Sara Veglahn, or Jacob Magraw, have […]

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Bites

Afternoon Bites: Kathleen Hanna Interviewed, Barbara Bloom’s Art, Revisiting Eileen Myles’s “Chelsea Girls,” and More

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On Frank O’Hara and Alfred Leslie’s lamp. Rachel Hurn recalls her first encounter with Eileen Myles’s Chelsea Girls. Kathleen Hanna talked with The Daily Beast. Paper has some zine recommendations for you… …which shares some points of reference with Hyperallergic’s piece on female adolescence. Barbara Bloom was interviewed about her exhibit at the Jewish Museum. Mary Ruefle’s “Lectures I Will Never Give” appears at The Rumpus. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google +, our Tumblr, and sign up for our mailing list.

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Events, Featured

Power Music, Electric Revival: “Free Pussy Riot!” Live at the Ace Hotel

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Russian feminist punk act Pussy Riot today received a sentence of two years in prison, on the old-timey charge of hooliganism, for this. The news came on the same day in which Moscow banned the staging of gay pride parades for the next one hundred years, and in which one of the nation’s favorite sons, chess icon Gary Kasparov, was arrested and allegedly beaten by police while attending a protest of Pussy Riot’s trial.

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Bites

Morning Bites: Sontag’s Journals, James Bond’s Beer, Newsies Musical, Google Glasses, and More

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Imprint on the early 1960s German design magazine Die Mappe (above) and HTML Giant on Fuck You, A Magazine of the Arts. Adam Kirsch at Tablet on Susan Sontag’s second volume of journals.  Also, there’s that time Sontag wore a bear suit. Edith Zimmerman talks to Eileen Myles at The Hairpin. James Bond drinking beer?  What is this world coming to??? Rex Reed likes the Newsies musical.  Anybody up for a field trip? Is anybody going to be caught dead wearing […]

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Morning Bites: Shawn & Gregory Return, Reading Eileen Myles While Watching Her Cats, Depression Novels, Thoreau Paintball, and More

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Wallace Shawn and André Gregory next project will be a filmed version of Ibsen’s “Master Builder,” adapted by Mr. Shawn and directed for the screen by Jonathan Demme.  No word if Shawn will somehow involve Deborah Eisenberg in the process, but we can hold out hope. “When I first read Inferno, I was cat-sitting for you, and I was up all night reading it.” – CA Conrad talks to Eileen Myles for BOMB,  and discusses the best possible situation for […]

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