Revisiting Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark, Zadie Smith and Elif Batuman (among many others) contributed to an exquisite corpse short story, thoughts on Aphex Twin, and more.
Thoughts on new fiction from Meg Wolitzer and a new album from Ex Hex, short stories from some excellent NYC-based writers, Elif Batuman on marriage and Gone Girl, and more.
Etgar Keret writes about going on a book tour just weeks after the passing of his father at Tablet. Elif Batuman visits Orhan Pamuk’s museum in Turkey. Our own Jon Reiss checks out eight coworking spaces in Brooklyn. HiLobrow has been serializing Rudyard Kipling’s With the Night Mail. They’re up to #11. “Klein speaks with a quiet yet assured voice, often staring at the ground as she carefully expresses genuine solace with anyone who has felt alienated in his or her life.” […]
The Rumpus talks to Elif Batuman about Mike Daisey. The Harvard Library will make 12 million records available to the public ncluding books, images, videos, and manuscripts. Huffington Post Books on the poetry of Tao Lin. Impose talks to author Chris Lehmann. Occupy Student Debt. Wine straight from the barrel. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.
A roundup of things consumed by our editors. Jason Diamond Right now the pile of books on my desk includes The Common issue no. 2, Divorcer by Gary Lutz, and Matthew Henriksen’s Ordinary Sun. They’re all slimmer in size, so I’m hoping to finish them all this week (Lutz’s especially so Toby I and I can discuss it), and also start putting together my vacation reading list. My yearly time off is coming up, and the stress trying to pick a handful of […]
Today is the shared birthday of Charlotte Brontë, Iggy Pop, and Robert Smith. We think that should make this day a national holiday of some sort. “Sense and Sensibility: The Musical.” No, this isn’t a Mel Brooks gag. We are still not sick of Elif Batuman. She writes about life after the success of The Possessed, and the time she asked Jonathan Franzen for pot. Top 5 conversations I’d like to sit in on: Tina Fey hanging out with Steve […]
Not that we’re complaining, but Elif Batuman is really running circles around just about everybody else in the awards department. She recently picked up a Whiting Award, and now via The Paris Review comes more news that makes all of us feel like we’re all slacking way too hard. On Tuesday, April 12, The Paris Review will single out two young writers at its Spring Revel. April Ayers Lawson will receive the Review’s Plimpton Prize for “Virgin,” which appeared in our […]
Posted by Jason Diamond Things I picked up and though about while reading the NY Times Sunday Book Review series of essays, “Why Criticism Matter” this morning.