In our morning reading: interviews with Teju Cole and Stephen Graham Jones, notes on Michael DeForge’s new comic, a new Philip Roth adaptation is reviewed, Jenn Pelly on Sleater-Kinney’s latest, and more.
Cross-country flights often give me a chance to work through the larger side of my to-read pile. That’s how I came to read John Berger’s Selected Essays and T.J. Binyon’s Pushkin in the last week and change. Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Confessions ended up on my radar through WORD’s Classics book group. Initially, this was going to be what this week’s column would be about: Weighty Tomes, door-stoppers; books with a size suitable for comment. Instead, I’m going with novels. Weird, idiosyncratic […]
A look at Claudia Roth Pierpont’s new Philip Roth biography; talking cleanses and visions with Alexander Chee; Norman Lock’s next book; the music videos of Spike Lee; and more.
A look at the books of Orange is the New Black, Black Flag lawsuits, writers’ retirements, ways to preserve endangered media, and much more.
“There is some Darkness on the Edge of Town within Miracle Temple; dreams too big for a small town, highways beckoning getaway from all that conspires to keep you there. In lieu of Jersey, high school sweethearts, and Carter-era gloom, it’s the Outer Banks, straight girls’ drunken flirting, and cruel summers.” Jessica Hopper on Mount Moriah’s new album Miracle Temple. Literary notables — including Jennifer Gilmore, Keith Gessen, and Salman Rushdie — assess the career of Philip Roth. John Scalzi on why libraries matter. Anne […]
Matthew Specktor explains why you should read Philip Roth’s Sabbath’s Theater. Maris Kreizman’s best books of 2012. Vol.1 Brooklyn’s Tobias Carroll has an in-depth look at the fiction of Laird Hunt at the Los Angeles Review of Books. The Millions’ A Year in Reading has begun. Hyperallergic has a look at the paintings of Pieter Schoolwerth. Molly Ringwald is developing a television series described as “John Hughes-esque.” Anne Swan talks about her story “Emote Control” with Joyland. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn […]
To prep for November 6th – when Brooklynites and whoever else lives in America will cast their votes for state and national candidates – Vol. 1 Brooklyn today premieres Frontrunners: a weekly series examining novels about elections and their entrants. May these profiles both rally citizens, and celebrate the sensual art of civics itself. With any luck, the “absentee ballads” vetted here might even find their way to President Obama and Governor Sideburns, and offer both men solace and inspiration […]
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