In our morning reading: checking in with Laura van den Berg, Blake Butler interviews Sarah Gerard, a new issue of Midnight Breakfast, an interview with Ned Beauman, and more.
We’ve considerably enjoyed Laura Van Den Berg‘s pair of collections, The Isle of Youth and What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us. Van Den Berg has a knack for creating memorable characters and unpredictable plots, and the sense of place conveyed by her fiction is excellent. So we’re very excited to hear that her debut novel, Find Me, is due out next year. From the description, it sounds surreal and neatly cataclysmic; needless to say, our interest […]
This morning: Victor LaValle on an underrated Shirley Jackson novel, interviews with Laura van den Berg and Teju Cole, Bret Easton Ellis scripts a Dum Dum Girls video, a look at the Wes Anderson-Stefan Zweig connection, and more.
This afternoon: interviews with Laura van den Berg and Daniel Alarcón, a new Neil Young live album gets reviewed, Kurt Weill in California, and more.
This afternoon: revisiting “Krapp’s Last Tape,” interviews with Laura van den Berg and Jeff Jackson, a new Noveller album, and more.
This weekend: Laura van den Berg’s latest gets a rave review in the Times, Warren Ellis delves into “weird crime” and comics, the films of Ed Ruscha are discussed, and much more.
Vol.1 Brooklyn and Community Bookstore are proud to welcome Laura van den Berg to Brooklyn to help celebrate the release of her new collection of short stories, The Isle of Youth. Her first collection, 2009’s What the World Will Look Like When All the Water Leaves Us was longlisted for The Story Prize and shortlisted for the Frank O’Connor International Award. Karen Russell is also a fan of the collection.
Laura van den Berg talks Nancy Drew, notes on the Loftus reissue, Califone’s Tumblr music video, new Warren Ellis fiction, and much more.