A look at the works of Jo Ann Beard, the fate of Gabriel García Márquez’s final novel, a look at Muriel Spark’s Loitering With Intent, Masha Gessen on exiles, and more.
This afternoon: a Pulp album turns twenty, Saul Bellow on film, Salman Rushdie’s tribute to Gabriel García Márquez, new fiction from Nicola Griffith, a Juliet Escoria interview, poetry from Tommy Pico, and more.
Daniel José Older’s incisive essay on race and publishing; a look at a reissued postpunk classic, talking with W. Kamau Bell, David Grand’s new novel gets a rave review, and more.
Remembering Gabriel García Márquez; political art groups on the Lower East Side, reports from the APRIL Festival and Downtown Literary Festival, examinations of work by Grant Morrison and Helen Oyeyemi, and more.
The Paris Review might have published the best essay on early 1970s English folk of the year with Brian Cullman’s “Things Behind the Sun.” (Okay, who are we kidding: it is the best.) “Jacques Chambrun was a New York-based literary agent in the nineteen-forties and fifties with a penchant for pinstripe suits and stealing his clients’ money.” – Jessica Weisberg at Page Turner on Mavis Gallant’s double-dealing agent. Jacob Silverman on Gabriel García Márquez and the slow fade of memory at Jewcy. Joe […]
Three Guys One Book take a look at why rock novels rarely work, then list a few that do (Great Jones Street by Delillo, The Gospel Singer by Harry Crews, etc.) Gabriel García Márquez’s Twitter death hoax. Julia Jackson talks to Mike Doughty at The Outlet. Today is Brian Eno’s birthday. Hugh Laurie and Stephen Fry plan to team up again. GOOD asks if we can we save the Potomac and America’s other polluted rivers? Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and […]
At The Paris Review: Michael Dirda reflects on a childhood love of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Gabriel García Márquez is big in Tehran. “I have never before come upon a book at once as loving and as devastating as The Mirador by Élisabeth Gille, the daughter of Irène Némirovsky.” – Ruth Franklin at The New Republic. The preview for the J. Edgar Hoover film starring Leonardo DiCaprio (directed by Clint Eastwood) is up. We’re officially psyched. (Anybody know who’s doing […]
At The New York Times: Peruvian Nobel laureate, Mario Vargas Llosa, discusses teaching Borges at an Ivy, investing his money, and the killer commute from Jersey to Manhattan: ““It’s very nice. But not if you take the train at 5 or 6 o’clock. It can be a Kafkaesque commute.” At Vice: Blake Butler and NY Tyrant take HTML GIANT’S “Mean Week” on the road, and trash Jonathan Franzen over at Vice. Hilarity ensues. At Boing Boing: Star Trak characters reading […]