…specifically, the cover for the forthcoming Who Can That Be At This Hour?, which looks excellent and smart and pulpy. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.
Nerd Porn: When Jazz Age Chicago had a New Yorker
Posted by Jason Diamond If it wasn’t for New York, Chicago would never be the Second City; or to be more precise: if it wasn’t for famed New Yorker writer A. J. Liebling, Chicago might not have ever been known as the Second City. The Chicagoan was a magazine that lived and died before Liebling’s famous nickname caught on. It was a counterpart to the New York institution, which got the anthology treatment a few years ago from the University […]
Nerd Porn: Crime and Punishment on the A train
Posted by Margarita Korol I watched a girl begin a crisp Crime and Punishment today on the A train. I’m sure she picked it up because the cover matched her post-Memorial Day outfit. I silently wished her luck through the utter suffering she would experience if her attention to aesthetics transferred to the 565 pages of angst she got herself into.