This afternoon: a review of Sonny Smith’s new compilation, Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin’s life in photos, thoughts on Nick Cave’s live album, authors on literary self-loathing, and more.
In our afternoon reading: checking in with Nick Cave, talking couscous with Leda, Lore Segal is interviewed, the Queens Museum is discussed, and much more.
Shani Boianjiu discusses fiction and translation, Alan Sepinwall talks with Difficult Men author Brett Martin, a Nick Cave documentary is made, and much more.
Stuart Nadler and Emma Straub discussed their recent novels. “As much as Eddy Current is sort of a modern day Don Quixote, it’s definitely a superhero origin story, even if it mocks its own forebears.” On Ted McKeever’s Eddy Current. Jess Row on Jamaica Kincaid’s See Now Then. Kevin Sampsell’s “Three Kisses” is up now at Tin House. Policymic has some recommended reading for Black History Month. “There’s a sense of the Bad Seeds expanding their sound and unlearning it at the same time.” Stuart Berman […]
The Stranger has details on the APRIL Festival, which sounds utterly fantastic, and makes at least one of us seriously consider booking a plane ticket to Seattle for late in the month of March. Rosie Schaap on Robert Burns and scotch. Nick Cave — the American artist, not the Australian musician – will be filling Grand Central with soundsuit horses in March. Come’s Eleven: Eleven is getting a deluxe reissue later this year. The best post-VU albums by members of the Velvet […]
Your tax dollars at work: the State Department is sending Andrew W.K. to the Middle East to promote peace. We’re entirely behind this idea, for what it’s worth. (Update: apparently, the trip is off.) Mara Tatar on Philip Pullman’s retold fairy tales. Ta-Nehisi Coates examines Raymond Chandler, Alfred Hitchcock, and misogyny. Dylan Nice chatted with The Collagist. Gabrielle Gantz on Sina Grace’s Not My Bag. Pete Astor is interviewed about his forthcoming Richard Hell-centric 33 1/3. Juliana Nash’s murder ballad playlist. […]
Robert Longo chatted with Richard Price at The Strand. Nick Cave was interviewed over at The AV Club. Rachel Fershleiser shares her story from Tuesday’s 3-Minute Book Stories event, with a look at Judy Blume’s Forever and first love. The American Reader checked out Victor LaValle’s appearance at the Center for Fiction. Our own Jason Diamond (along with folks from WORD, Greenlight, the Fireside Follies series, and Electric Literature) is interviewed by Brooklyn Magazine. Grantland went drinking with Junot Díaz. Aaron Leitko […]
The Monster Magnet/Norman Mailer connection you never expected: revealed by Tom Scharpling. Maura Johnston on music discovery and SXSW. The Last Repatriate author Mathew Salesses has a good essay on The Rumpus about racism and perceptions of race. Questlove is curating an impressive-looking festival at BAM next month. Nick Cave covering Jeffrey Lee Pierce? We’ll listen to that. Joe McCulloch on Moebius. (This link contains some possibly-work-unsafe images, for what it’s worth.) Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.