Today is Lee “Scratch” Perry’s birthday. Jacob Silverman reviewed Laszlo Krasznahorkai’s Satantango for The New York Times Book Review, and then provided a handy roundup of Krasznahorkai around the web. Edith Zimmerman talks to Kate Zambreno over at The Hairpin. Connecting a Blue Velvet frame to a Bolaño story. Ted Gioia’s “Year of Magical Reading” brings him to Like Water For Chocolate. Miles Klee give Electric Literature a mixtape. Here’s a Flickr page full of post-punk flyers. Arcade Fire hung around Austin after […]
Afternoon Bites: Eugenides Vs. Zambreno, John K. Samson, Dystopian Volleyball, And More
Lookout! Records founder and P.G. Wodehouse aficionado Larry Livermore wrote a long essay on John K. Samson, wherein he suggests that Samson be named Poet Laureate of Canada. We’re cool with that. Admittedly, we are not Canadian, so that opinion might not count for much. Today at the Tournament of Books: The Marriage Plot vs. Green Girl. (And hey, if you’d like to read our review of the latter…) Science fiction comics about dystopian volleyball? We will read that, and gladly. […]
A Night At the Franklin Park Reading Series
On February 13th, five writers gathered at Brooklyn’s Franklin Park as part of the bar’s monthly reading series. This month, the lineup encompassed Will Snider, Chiara Barzini, Kate Zambreno, Martha Southgate, and Ben Marcus. Host Penina Roth introduced the theme as being loosely related to Valentine’s Day, albeit “twisted love stories.”
Indexing: Books with numbers, back to “Treasure Island!!!,” a Joy Williams quest, Nathan Englander, Norman Lock, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, and much more
A roundup of things consumed by our contributors. Jen Vafdis I read Joy Williams’ Honored Guest for the first of probably a few times this week. Some stories I loved unconditionally, others might reveal themselves to me later. You know how it is when one character jumps out at you in a story, and you immediately cast the role of that character in your mind? Perhaps other Joy Williams fans will agree, maybe not, but I think James Urbaniak (of […]
Afternoon Bites: Kate Zambreno, Alina Simone, Caketrain, and more
At The Lit Pub, Tim Jones-Yelvington looks at Kate Zambreno’s Green Girl. (Our review of it? Right here.) New Alina Simone short fiction, at BOMB. HiLoBooks is launching, and will be reissuing assorted “Radium Age science fiction” novels. The editors of Caketrain are interviewed by Nin Andrews at The Best American Poetry. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, and our Tumblr. Got tips for Bites? Info@Vol1brooklyn.com
Reviewed: Green Girl by Kate Zambreno
Reviewed by Jen Vafidis Green Girl by Kate Zambreno Emergency Press, 268 P. You know that Rolling Stones song, “Cool, Calm, Collected”? It’s one of many vaguely misogynistic songs in the Stones back catalog, and it features the following lyrics: In public the strain’s hard to bear / She exudes such a confident air / But behind she is not without care / She sweeps it right under her hair. That’s basically Green Girl if Kate Zambreno didn’t have the […]