New writing from Sheila Heti, excerpts from books from Michael Kimball and Jeffrey Renard Allen, interviews with James Yeh and Edan Lepucki, and much more for your weekend reading.
In Making Progress, writers talk about their work by way of a project they’re in the middle of finishing. Materials include: scratch paper notes and very rough drafts, abandoned opening sentences and weird internet searches. The point is to get a glimpse into how they put their stories together. The idea is to say, sure, let’s pull back the curtain. I first met James in Seattle some years ago, while attending a reading of his at Pilot Books. I remember […]
Tomorrow night at 8:30, upstart lit journal Gigantic celebrates the release of its fourth issue at Public Assembly in Williamsburg. This esteemed affair will ring in the revelry with readings from Michael Kimball, Joe Wenderoth, Kimberly King Parsons, and Robert Lopez, and music from Jonas Reinhardt and Lingerie. Be there or be oblong. Gigantic’s enormously busy and talented editors James Yeh and Lincoln Michel sat down to answer a few queries about their new issue, the trials of running a […]
Joseph Conrad’s Heart of Darkness to debut as an opera. Happy National Novel Writing Month. Here are six works that were written in under 31 days to serve as inspiration for you. Groucho Marx and T.S. Eliot were were penpals. Emma Straub writes about the death of River Phoenix and the effect it had on her for Rookie. Vol. 1’s Jason Diamond hangs out with Gigantic Mag’s James Yeh to listen to the new Real Estate album over at Impose. Stream the Beach Boys SMiLE […]
Of course Charlie Sheen put out a book of poetry. Of course he did. Jamie Iredell gives Largehearted Boy a playlist for his latest book, The Book of Freaks. James Yeh takes a look at some of his favorite highlights from Open City Magazine. Stephen King’s going to write a novel about the JFK assassination. Aldous Huxley’s children’s book is re-published. Blade Runner 2. This sounds like a really awful idea.
We really like Mr. Yeh. He’s a pal of ours, and we want to give away a copy of his chapbook, 9/16/10, out on Swill Children. Deb Olin Unferth said of Yeh that his “quiet meditation on death will sneak in and throw up a window in your soul with its intensity.” You want it? RT this on Twitter: “Hey @Vol1Brooklyn, I Love James Yeh” and we will pick a winner at random.
Posted by Jason Diamond James Yeh and Swill Children getting together and putting out a chapbook is sort of like Jesus and Santa getting together to collaborate on an art project. This pairing is very welcome to us, and we think buying “9/16/10” is a very smart idea that will make you wildly popular, and also impress people when Mr. Yeh’s no bullshit prose is being talked about by people “in the know.”