Sara Marcus reviewed Masha Gessen’s book on Pussy Riot, new fiction from Shane Jones, recommending some long novels, literature’s best punctuation, and more.
Our afternoon reading includes a look at dining in Brighton Beach; J. Hoberman on Liberace; Deafheaven’s fondness for Czech literature; a discussion of historical fiction; and much more.
Adam Rathe has done a great service to the world by rounding up folks like Dennis Cooper, Sara Marcus, Bob Mould, Martin Sorrendguy, and many others for what currently stands as the definitive oral history of the punk movement known as Queercore. Read it: “Queer to the Core” by Adam Rathe Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, and our Tumblr.
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Sasha Frere-Jones, Emily Gould, and Sara Marcus talk Ellen Willis in a roundtable discussion at Bookforum. Ruth Franklin at The New Republic wonders if Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein was really about childbirth. Will John Carter be a huge bomb? If it is, what will Michael Chabon do? The violin maker of Brooklyn. Woody’s getting back in front of the camera. The five best quotes from the Bradford Cox interview at Pitchfork. Alexei Navalny, part of the Yale World Fellows Class of 2010, […]
Posted by Jason Diamond Is it a coincidence that Sara Marcus (above) did our Civic Pride: Washington, DC event in May, and now she has a piece up on n+1 titled “Civic Pride” about her hometown? We won’t take any credit here, but if we are at all responsible for sparking a hint of hometown pride in one of our favorite writers that led to her writing a wonderful piece, and that piece ended up on n+1, we feel like […]
Above: Fanbase, pre-moshing. Or post-moshing… hard to tell. When does an event not only live up to its hype, but actually exceeds it? Bowie collaborating with Eno? The last episode of Alf? John Madden’s turducken? We can now add Vol. 1’s “Civic Pride: Washington D.C.” to that distinguished list. Held last Thursday at Greenpoint mecca WORD Brooklyn, Civic Pride’s latest edition was the end-all tribute to the District of Columbia, featuring a stellar line-up of authors and at an atmosphere […]
Nick Curley My house was robbed moments after last week’s Indexing was published, and my, what an amusing week of not-reading things on my not-laptop! It’s incredible how much non-reading you can get done in the information age when you’re stuck in the appreciated but still woeful bunker that is borrowing someone else’s Powerbook. First world problems y’all!