In our morning reading: the National Book Critics Circle Award finalists are announced, an interview with Sir Richard Bishop, Michael Almereyda has made another unorthodox cinematic Shakespeare adaptation, and more.
Celebrating Philip K. Dick’s birthday, delving into the year in essays, Jami Attenberg on the time she pretended to be a psychic, an interview with Meredith Graves, and more.
An interview with David Gilbert, Philip K. Dick-inspired rock, ambient jazz, crimes of the Gilded Age, David Cronenberg’s films, and more.
Notes on Gothic novels; Jerry Saltz gives a lesson on art; a look at Jack Handey’s work for The New Yorker; thoughts on Lionel Ziprin’s artwork; and more.
Elliott Holt talked with The Rumpus; Brandon Stosuy wrote about Deafheaven’s latest; Blake Schwarzenbach was interviewed at The Low Times; Rob Spillman wrote about David Markson; and much more.
Attention Philip K. Dick fans: these articles on his sweet, sweet crazy are not to be missed. “But that’s the way shit goes when you sell millions of records but you’re dying inside.” Jessica Hopper interviews Heart’s Ann Wilson and it’s too real. A possibly intoxicated Bill Murray makes our hearts flutter by walking us through the set of Moonrise Kingdom. How to become a literary translator, according to the guy who put Laurent Binet into English. (Our review of […]
A 1959 recording of Flannery O’Connor reading “A Good Man is Hard to Find.” Jeffrey Eugenides hangs out in England and makes a video. Wayne Koestenbaum is interviewed on The Bat Segundo Show. The Nervous Breakdown gives us their 2011 Nobbies, and it’s a fine list. Cyberpunk writer Neal Stephenson is profiled in the New York Times. Jonathan Lethem on Philip K. Dick. Forever 21 has pulled the Flipper shirt. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, and our Tumblr.
At Largehearted Boy: Paul Murray (Skippy Dies) picks Nation of Ulysses and Nick Cave for his Book Notes entry. Largehearted Boy calls the book “one of the funniest novels of the year.” At Vice: James Ellory interviewed. At NPR: Nick Hornby on Fresh Air. At Thought Catalog: Putting a ton of thought into the Tao Lin/Jonathan Franzen Stranger/Time cover At Dangerous Minds: A letter from the Philip K. Dick auction. At Huffington Post: 9 bad jobs in literature. At The […]