A roundup of things consumed by our contributors.
Afternoon Bites: Michael Chabon On Prog, Sheila Heti’s View, Inside “Bucko,” and More
Curt Pires, writer of the graphic novel LP, talks formats and comics with Tim O’Shea. Cynthia Nixon will play Emily Dickinson in a Terence Davies-directed film. Jac Jemc on Thomas Jefferson. Jeff Parker and Erika Moen are interviewed about their excellent comic Bucko. Michael Chabon dishes on his love for prog. Skylight Books’ Megan Wade is interviewed. Sheila Heti on the view from her window. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.
Afternoon Bites: Coates on Chabon, Liturgy on Shellac, Hope Larson on “A Wrinkle In Time,” and More
Hope Larson adapted Madeleine L’Engle’s A Wrinkle In Time as a graphic novel. Ta-Nehisi Coates on Michael Chabon’s prose. Jason Santa Maria has some things to say about typefaces. Victor LaValle was interviewed at NPR. Perhaps the only time you’ll see “Liturgy” and “a capella Shellac cover” in the same sentence. Gabrielle Gantz on Nick Hornby’s More Baths Less Talking. Indie booksellers in NYC recommend their preferred fall books. Madeleine Miller’s essay “Writing at Six Miles an Hour” is quite good. […]
Morning Bites: Updike and the Universe, Early Chabon, Fitzgerald’s Love, Shirley MacLaine Talks Downton and More
At The Paris Review: Our own Jason Diamond discusses the influence F. Scott Fitzgerald’s first love (and the town she came from) had on him. John Updike: Lover of the universe. An early look at Michael Chabon’s Telegraph Avenue at The Atlantic Wire. Michele Filgate talks to Karolina Waclawiak at Capital New York. Brooklyn Based has a report from the Amor Towles reading underneath the Brooklyn Bridge. Rachel Syme looks into why Dawn Powell’s diaries won’t sell. Shirley MacLaine talks Downton […]
Morning Bites: Ellen Willis Roundtable, Frankenstein, Woody On Camera, John Carter Bomb, And More
Sasha Frere-Jones, Emily Gould, and Sara Marcus talk Ellen Willis in a roundtable discussion at Bookforum. Ruth Franklin at The New Republic wonders if Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was really about childbirth. Will John Carter be a huge bomb? If it is, what will Michael Chabon do? The violin maker of Brooklyn. Woody’s getting back in front of the camera. The five best quotes from the Bradford Cox interview at Pitchfork. Alexei Navalny, part of the Yale World Fellows Class of 2010, […]
Morning Bites: Chabon cover, Columbia College lays off fiction, “Animal Farm” hope, Israeli author protection program, and more
That’s the Stax Records/60s bubblegum/Soul Train inspired cover of Michael Chabon’s forthcoming Telegraph Avenue. (Via Sarah Weinman’s Twitter) While you’re at AWP in Chicago, you should stop by Columbia College and see why they’re laying off the Chair of the Fiction Writing Department. Seems worth checking out. Your Longread suggestion of the day is at The Atlantic: “How ‘Animal Farm’ Gave Hope to Stalin’s Refugees.” Then move on to this Los Angeles Review of Books essay on Bruno Schulz. They’re […]
This Is What Happens When You Mess With Michael Chabon
Yesterday we made mention of a piece written by Jacob Silverman for Tablet, where Silverman made the point that sometimes great novelists get into the world of writing screenplays for television or movies, and they don’t always have the easiest time getting back into the groove of writing great books.
Michael Chabon In Hollywood
It’s funny how things changes when you learn one of your favorite writers is behind a project you were initially skeptical of. In this case it’s finding out about Michael Chabon’s involvement with the upcoming Disney film, John Carter, has made me quite curious after seeing commercials for the film and muttering an “Ehhhh…” Chabon co-wrote the screenplay for the film, and coupled with his upcoming work with HBO, it would seem he’s finally getting on the right track when it comes to getting […]