Blake Butler interviewed Alissa Nutting, Richard Melo’s new novel gets reviewed, new music from William Basinski, A.S. Byatt on Neil Gaiman’s new novel, and more.
Sometime in the past year, I started thinking of myself as a year older than I actually am. Whereas before — say, at the age of 35 — I’d end up hesitating, considering 34, and then realizing that, no, I needed to go up a year, I now keep wanting to refer to myself as 37, whereas I’ve still got a few months to go until that birthday comes around. It’s a minor thing, sure, but it’s getting under my […]
Start out your week with news of Neil Gaiman’s BEA appearance; the return of Comics Alliance; the latest album from Chicago’s ONO; and much more.
Notes on the minimalist composer Dennis Johnson — no relation to the writer or to Melville House’s publisher — whose November sees release this year. Ad Hoc has more. A selection of covers to past editions of Kingsley Amis’s The Green Man — some evoking terror, some evoking ’80s Cinemax. Alexander Nazaryan on celebrity publishers. New fiction from Gabriel Blackwell. Neil Gaiman wrote the episode of Doctor Who that’s airing this weekend. News on forthcoming books from Matt Bell. Birdsong‘s Tommy Pico: interviewed. Jayson Greene […]
Frank Bill’s Donnybrook playlist is up. Iggy Pop digs Iceage and Jazuzzi Boys. We can relate. “I think London’s iconography is really interesting because it’s so removed from the experience of the city. In places like New York or Paris you always have the feeling that you’re participating in the filmic experience of the place you have logged in your memory. London’s pop images feel like a flaky concession to that.” Paul Kneale talked with Rhizome. Ed Champion made his way to the […]
Four words: Numero Group reissues Unwound. No big deal; just Patti Smith reading from Virginia Woolf’s The Waves. HTML Giant interviewed Lars Iyer, whose Exodus is out now from Melville House. So, about that contentious New York Public Library renovation? Michael Kimmelman has some questions about that. The New Yorker on polite graffiti. Chris Mautner on unjustly forgotten comics anthologies. A look back on Neil Gaiman’s The Books of Magic. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + our Tumblr, and sign up for our mailing list.
Christopher R. Weingarten talks about the aesthetic influence of Twin Peaks on contemporary music. Spencer Ackerman on the psychoanalysis of superheroes. Kathe Koja has written a number of terrific and weird novels over the years; here’s an interview in which she talks about the strange and uncanny in fiction. Neil Gaiman shares his reading list with the Times. Michaelangelo Matos talks about Chicago house. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.
Have you submitted to L Magazine’s Literary Upstart competition? You’ve got till May 28th. That time Henry James took down Charles Dickens. The most famous Jewish poet in India. Neil Gaiman posts the raw copy of his interview with Stephen King. Speaking of Stephen King: The guy just wants to be taxed! Eric Copeland (of Black Dice) has a new solo album coming out. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.