In our morning reading: Roxane Gay has written a powerful essay on Ferguson; information on donating to Ferguson’s library; news on Gabriel García Márquez’s archive; interviews with Atticus Lish and Lidia Yuknavitch; and more.
Afternoon Bites: Petula Clark Returns, Digital Public Library, Lidia Yuknavitch and Elizabeth Scarboro on Memoir, and More
Roxane Gay talking memoirs with Lidia Yuknavitch and Elizabeth Scarboro? We will read that, yes. Joanna Scutts on the NYPL’s “Future of Publishing” panel. Tim Carmody on the Digital Public Library of America. New Mudhoney album! Quoth Steven Hyden at Pitchfork: “Mark Arm’s primary influence is no longer Iggy Pop, it’s Larry David.” Jon Cotner’s “Dental Date” is up now at The Hairpin. Douglas Wolk talks Petula Clark. David Brothers on The Bulletproof Coffin, sequential art, and cut-up techniques. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google […]
Afternoon Bites: Djuna Barnes at the Brooklyn Museum, Steve Erickson on the Oscars, Warren Ellis on Geoff Dyer on Andrei Tarkovsky, and more
Afternoon Links for Februrary 14, 2012, featuring Djuna Barnes, Geoff Dyer, Steve Erickson, and more.
Indexing: How much Wodehouse can you take(?), Cannery Row, Lispector, L.A. Review of Books podcast, and much more
A roundup of things consumed by our contributors. Tobias Carroll We’ve got two weeks of reading here. This….might take a while. Though it’s a strange cosmic joke that I made my way through the 850-page novel on the list to follow faster than nearly everything else on it.