Almost Live at Mellow Pages: Leigh Stein

In this episode we sit down with Leigh Stein, author of the novel The Fallback Plan, a book of poems, Dispatch From The Future, and co-host of the reading series[with Sasha Fletcher] The Book Report. We talked with Leigh about writing memoir, dealing with trauma/grief and how that affects the process of writing, her new venture called BinderCon, standing up to online misogyny in the literary community, and a gang of other things–including Civil War reenactments. We can safely say […]

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Bachelorette Recaps as Poetry: Leigh Stein

Leigh Stein writes recaps of The Bachelorette (Team Arie!) in the forms of poems. What began as an ironic way to attenuate the guilt and shame in obsessing over a vapid quest for a partner morphed into a clever running commentary on a beloved show that reinforces a classic Romantic conception of Love at the same time that it makes a highly profitable commodity. Somehow, the show tricks us every times into watching two hour episodes, eliciting tears and joy, […]

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Morning Bites: Sketchy Literary Characters, The Chicagoan Returns, Dog Name Or Ginsberg Line, Good Comebacks, And More

  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. […]

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Morning Bites: SST Records, Bolaño’s Reich, Leigh Stein’s soundtrack, Jewish American writer isolation, and more

Largehearted Boy talks to Leigh Stein about the music listened to in the time she moved from Illinois to Albuquerque to write The Fallback Plan. Adam Mars-Jones at The Guardian on Roberto Bolaño’s The Third Reich. A Jewish-American writer feels isolated because of her views on Israel. There was Pauline Kael, and there was the other film reviewer at The New Yorker. At A.V. Club: Geeking out over SST Records. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, and our Tumblr. Got tips for Bites?  Info@Vol1brooklyn.com

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Morning Bites: Downton to dollars, hatchet jobs, Jack London, SMITH’s “Moment,” Leigh Stein, and more

Kim Gordon riding the NYC subway sometime in the 1970s via Bryan Waterman. The best hatchet jobs of 2011. An interview with Leigh Stein (The Fallback Plan) at HTML Giant. The SMITH “Moment” party is recapped. “We’re just riding that ‘Downton Abbey’ wave,” – the publishing industry sees dollar signs thanks everyones favorite Edwardian clan. Here’s a single off Craig Finn’s forthcoming solo debut, Clear Heart Full Eyes. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, and our Tumblr. Got tips for Bites?  Info@Vol1brooklyn.com

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