Amy Brill takes us into whaling history, Matthew Specktor and Nick Antosca are interviewed, Adelle Waldman shares her favorite sad young literary men, and more.
Last week, my thoughts were with literary works of the South; this week, I’ve got an eye on three books that channel particularly northern spaces. Matthew Simmons’s collection Happy Rock takes as its setting the Upper Peninsula of Michigan; John Gardner’s Mickelsson’s Ghosts is set in western New York; and, while the stories in Nick Antosca’s The Girlfriend Game take place in a variety of settings, he does have a knack for chronicling bad behavior of New York residents — whether up-and-coming artists […]
Talking storytelling with Nick Antosca and Ken Baumann, Kevin Sampsell interviews Alissa Nutting, Byron Coley makes a record, Oneida offshoot People of the North release a new album, and more.
Kelefa Sanneh on David Graeber? We will read that, yes. Francine Prose on dreams in fiction. Martin Scorsese’s long-in-the-works adaptation of Shusaku Endo’s Silence may have found its lead. Hanging out with Patti Smith in New Orleans. Nick Antosca’s story “Rat Beast” gets the Rap Genius treatment. Dani Shapiro’s “My Avatar, My Self” is good reading. Chicago art and vampire bats. Fiona Maazel was on the Other People Podcast. James Greer was interviewed by Joyland. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google +, our Tumblr, […]
“When the nostalgia train hits a time when you were actually an adult, you palpably experience the constructedness of history.” At Artforum, Rhonda Lieberman looks at the New Museum’s “NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star.” Nick Antosca makes the case for Universal Soldier: Day of Reckoning: “a movie Werner Herzog, David Lynch, and Shivers-era David Cronenberg might make if they teamed up to shoot a Bourne knockoff in Louisiana on a shoestring budget.” THE2NDHAND‘s Todd Dills on his novel […]
“Singer Mish Way is a punk poet in a lineage that extends from Exene Cervenka to Kat Bjelland to Kathleen Hanna…” Tobi Vale interviewed the excellent Vancouver punk band White Lung. 3-Minute Metal Stories alumnus Laina Dawes talked about her new book What Are You Doing Here?: A Black Woman’s Life and Liberation in Heavy Metal with NPR. Chickfactor asks the likes of Stephin Merritt, Jennifer O’Connor, and Daniel Handler about their experiences with stage fright. Two Nick Antosca books in […]
At The Daily Beast, Lauren Elkin looks at Stephanie LaCava’s An Extraordinary Theory of Objects. At the New Criterion: “The Armory Show at 100.” Here’s a trailer for DJ Dolack’s chapbook No Ser No. Melville House’s Claire Kelley pays tribute to Shakespeare & Company’s George Whitman. Nick Antosca has a new collection coming out on Word Riot next year, and you can pre-order it now. At Pitchfork, Mike Powell talks Parquet Courts. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.
Greenpoint metal bar St. Vitus turned one in April, and Linda Leseman reported on the festivities. “…all I could think was, Best. Jackal. Ever. ” Jerry Saltz talks about pre-dynastic Egyptian art. Blake Butler and Nick Antosca chat at Beatrice; Butler also has an essay up at Fanzine. Stan Lee wrote a comic about Elvis. Josh Kurp reports on the first night of the National-curated Crossing Brooklyn Ferry festival at BAM. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.