Chris Kraus and Sheila Heti talked at The Believer, Rutger Hauer starred in a Roberto Bolaño adaptation, Califone’s latest was reviewed at Dusted, and more.
Sheila Heti has taken over the Powell’s blog for the week. For her first column, she asked Tao Lin and Heidi Julavits for advice. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google +, our Tumblr, and sign up for our mailing list.
Ngugi wa Thiong’o talked about language, political unrest, and his new memoir with NPR. Sheila Heti gives us “A New Canadian Myth for New Canadian Times.” “In the album, it’s possible to hear the kaleidoscopic ambition and bruised optimism of What’s Going On and Innervisions, hints of Miles Davis’ prolific funk-fusion period and Bob Marley’s ascendant good vibrations, the lingering specter of Love’s death-of-innocence opus Forever Changes, and the drawn-out, spaced-out folk-rock sigh emanating from Laurel Canyon.” Eric Harvey on Shuggie Otis, at Pitchfork. The […]
“To understand what makes António “Mia” Emílio Leite Couto special — even extraordinary — we have to loosen our grip on the binary that distinguishes between “the West” and “Africa.”” Aaron Bady on the novels of Mia Coutu. Want to read Sheila Heti’s 90s-era feminist zine? Benjamin Lytal talks about geography and fiction. Marissa Nadler covered the Game of Thrones theme song. Michael Robbins on his unread books. Roxane Gay interviewed Ben Schrank for Tin House. Michael H. Miller on Julian Schnabel. […]
As if The Millions Year in Reading series couldn’t get any better, Sheila Heti shares her initial thoughts about publishing a list of fifteen books until she came to the conclusion that talking about that many would be “almost like showing one’s naked body.” Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.
An anthology collecting the zine The Minus Times has been released by featherproof and Drag City. David Berman interviewed editor Hunter Kennedy about the project for BOMB. Sheila Heti chatted with Tin House. Christopher Weingarten looks back at the weekend’s NYC debut of the All Tomorrow’s Parties festival. The Quietus revisits Orson Welles’s adaptation of Kafka’s The Trial. The Los Angeles Times on reader recommendations. Sam Prekop took Pitchfork through his listening history. Conversational Reading is doing a group read of William Gass’s novel […]
Several pages of John Jeremiah Sullivan talking about William Faulkner and the South? We might as well make that our entire focus of Weekend Bites. James Parker at the Slate Book Review on Raymond Kennedy’s that predicted the rise of Sarah Palin. Also at Slate Book Review: Michelle Dean on why smart men seem to have misunderstood Sheila Heti’s book. Daniel Roberts on Dave Eggers A Hologram for the King at Fortune. Ten Stephen King novels that should be video games. […]
Via Capital New York Conversations post bee-line to the free beer line at the launch of Sheila Heti’s latest novel, How Should a Person Be?, tended to be some variation of the following: Is Sheila here yet? Do you think Lena Dunham coming? Did you read the New Yorker review? For the most part, the responses were: I don’t know, I haven’t seen her yet. I heard she’s coming too. Do you think she’s really coming? No, it just came […]