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Afternoon Bites: Unwound Reissues, Patti Smith Reads Virginia Woolf, Conversing With Lars Iyer, and More

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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.

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Afternoon Bites: Paula Fox Book Club, Converge’s Latest, Cinematic “Just Kids,” and More

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The New York Times is discussing the novel Desperate Characters with its author, Paula Fox. (Which is as good a time as any to suggest that you read Desperate Characters if you haven’t already.) Brandon Stosuy on the latest album from Converge. Rosie Schaap on female bartenders. Gilbert and Jaime Hernandez made an appearance on The Bat Segundo Show. News on the progress of the film adaptation of Just Kids. Maria Sherman on hanging out in western Massachusetts with the band Psychic Blood. […]

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Weekend Bites: Vamps, Good Neckwear, Henkin Talks, Patti Smith Videos and More

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“Progressive, liberated women were clearly so frightening one hundred years ago that equating them to undead, bloodthirsty creatures borne of Satan didn’t seem so unusual.” – The Bowery Boys on Theda Bara and other early 1900s “vampire” women. We really hope the Patti Smith Golden Age we’re living in lasts a hundred years.  Dangerous Minds dug up two new videos of her that you’re going to like. Love songs from around Brooklyn. Levi Asher at Lit Kicks talks Robert Caro. Joshua […]

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Afternoon Bites: Patti Smith & Jessica Hopper, George Pelecanos’s Culture Diary, Miles Klee on “Cotton Eyed Joe,” and More

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Jessica Hopper talks with Patti Smith about her new album Banga at The Daily. The awesome Tobi Vail interviews the equally awesome Grass Widow. At Sound of the City, Miles Klee on “Cotton Eyed Joe.” Vulture has the skinny on what George Pelecanos’s week in culture has been like. Ted Sanders is interviewed over at Hobart. Book Riot presents The Loner’s Guide to Book Expo America. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.

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Morning Bites: BEA Parties, Updike’s Duds, Patti Smith, OWS Sues NYC, and More

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Ernest Hemingway’s reporting for the Toronto Star.  (Via The Rumpus) John Updike: great dresser. Have you had a chance to check out Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading? Will interviews with Patti Smith ever get old?  The answer is a big NOPE.  That obviously includes this interview between Smith and Melissa Giannini of Spin. EvilReads has your official BEA party guide (including the Bookrageous party we’re co-sponsoring along with some other fantastic folks). OWS sues NYC. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.

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Morning Bites: Brideshead vs. Downton, n+1 Personals profiled, Stephen Elliott’s “Cherry,” and more

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Brideshead Revisited Vs. Downton Abbey in a really bloody battle at Page Views. N+1 Personals gets profiled by New York magazine. Have you seen the preview for Stephen Elliott’s Cherry? Now Salman Rushdie thinks the whole assassination attempt on his life thing was B.S. Luc Sante on Patti Smith.  Again, we repeat: Luc Sante on Patti Smith at the New York Review of Books. Cooking with Sonic Youth (before Kim and Thurston broke up) and Evan Dando at Flavorwire. Follow Vol. 1 […]

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Afternoon Bites: Patti Smith, Judge Dredd, Clarice Lispector, and more

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Via Alexander Chee, Sven Birkerts on writer’s block: “Mood is relevant, certainly, but it is not sufficient. Mood, the vibration of one’s psychological state — the momentary expression of the felt relation to the world. It is as all-determining and elusive as weather.” New fiction from Adam Wilson, at The Paris Review. Patti Smith wrote music inspired by the letters of Alfred Stieglitz and Georgia O’Keeffe. At Flavorwire, Emily Temple looks at 2011’s most overlooked books. Alyssa Rosenberg on Judge […]

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