Thoughts on teaching the writings of Flannery O’Connor, Jon Ronson and Frank, Jan Elizabeth Watson discusses endings in fiction, new music from Total Control, and more.
Thoughts on teaching the writings of Flannery O’Connor, Jon Ronson and Frank, Jan Elizabeth Watson discusses endings in fiction, new music from Total Control, and more.
Adam Wilson on badly remembered NYC films, talking indie rock and sexism with Alanna McArdle, poetry from Wayne Koestenbaum, an interview with Nicholas Rombes, and more.
This morning: Flannery O’Connor’s birthday, Chelsea Hodson on her Inventory project, new writing from Kate Christensen, authors illustrated as their classical counterparts, and more.
Raymond Pettibon was interviewed by Kim Gordon, Steve Albini shares his memories of working with Jason Molina, Masha Gessen on a post-Pussy Riot protest movement, and more.
In our afternoon reading: an excerpt from Kevin Sampsell’s latest, thoughts on Flannery O’Connor, a Nicola Griffith playlist, musical subway turnstiles, the excess of album launch parties, and more.
I told many people the story of the suitcase lady. After I met her, I wrote the story out in an email, and I copied and pasted that into other emails, to others who find themselves saddled with my daily correspondence. Weeks later I was still talking about it. On a train leaving San Francisco on Christmas Eve, my hand held up to shield the mid-day sun, I heard myself ask my dad, as a rhetorical ending to the […]
Joyland’s co-founder, Brian Joseph Davis, draws police sketches of some of the most famous characters in literature. Oddly enough, the least creepy one is the murderous Misfit from Flannery O’Connor’s “A Good Man Is Hard To Find.” Preview Adam Levin’s Hot Pink over at the McSweeney’s site. It will get you set for when we host Levin at PowerHouse Arena on April 4th. J.C. Gabel, the man behind the great magazine Stop Smiling, is now spearheading the resurrection of The Chicagoan. […]
A 1959 recording of Flannery O’Connor reading “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” Jeffrey Eugenides hangs out in England and makes a video. Wayne Koestenbaum is interviewed on The Bat Segundo Show. The Nervous Breakdown gives us their 2011 Nobbies, and it’s a fine list. Cyberpunk writer Neal Stephenson is profiled in the New York Times. Jonathan Lethem on Philip K. Dick. Forever 21 has pulled the Flipper shirt. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, and our Tumblr.