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#tobyreads: Cities Gone Idiosyncratic

March 7, 2014 No Comments

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 […]

Bites

Afternoon Bites: Alexander Chee, New Norman Lock, Spike Lee’s Music Videos, The Blow Returns, and More

October 21, 2013 No Comments

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.

Bites

Afternoon Bites: Writers’ Retirements, Black Flag Lawsuit, Shakespeare in Prison, Endangered Media, and More

August 5, 2013 No Comments

A look at the books of Orange is the New Black, Black Flag lawsuits, writers’ retirements, ways to preserve endangered media, and much more.

Bites

Afternoon Bites: Assessing Philip Roth, Mount Moriah’s Latest, David Goodwillie Interviewed, and More

February 25, 2013 No Comments

“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 […]

Bites

Afternoon Bites: On “Sabbath’s Theater,” The Novels of Laird Hunt, Pieter Schoolwerth, and More

December 3, 2012 No Comments

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 […]

Book Review, Politics

Frontrunners: What Obama and Romney Can Learn from Philip Roth’s “Our Gang”

October 23, 2012 1 Comment

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 […]

Indexing

Indexing: Election Fiction and Nonfiction, Watching Antonioni, Inside Marvel Comics, Books Trapped in the Closet, Grace Paley, and More

October 20, 2012 No Comments

A roundup of things consumed by our contributors.

Books

Philip Roth Can’t Win

October 15, 2012 No Comments

Sometimes we wonder whether Philip Roth gets more annoyed with all the Nobel Prizes he doesn’t win year after year, or all the chatter about said lack of prizes. Whatever the case, Juli Weiner at Vanity Fair does point out one bit of hilarious coincidence having to do with another Roth who did win a Nobel for economics this year: “Alvin Roth is the name of a character in a book by the Nobel-less Philip Roth. What book? Literally—literally—literally: The […]