In our morning reading: an interview with Jesse Ball, nonfiction from Mairead Case, the birth of a new bookstore in New Jersey, and more.
Vol.1 Brooklyn’s August 2016 Book Preview
This month brings with a host of bold nonfiction, including books in which talented writers shine a light on the creative works that have impressed them over the years, incisive memoirs, and a new collection of writing on race in America. There’s also plenty of innovative fiction due out this month, along with a few works that defy easy description. What follows is a look at several of the books for which we’re excited that are due out in the […]
Tonight: Chicago vs. Brooklyn at BookThugNation
Tobias Carroll lives in Brooklyn, and has covered music and books for a number of publications, and his fiction has appeared in THE2NDHAND, 3:AM, Word Riot, and as part of Featherproof Books’ “Light Reading” series. He is presently working on multiple projects of varying lengths. Mairead Case writes, edits, and clerks in Chicago. She’s managed publications like Proximity Magazine, The Journal of Ordinary Thought, and Literago.org, and published in places like featherproof, the2NDHAND, Pitchfork, Punk Planet, The Stranger, and Vice. […]
Bites: Twilight, The Beets, Leonard Michaels, and asking what really matters anymore?
Hipster Runoff “tries to understand Twilight, without actually reading it.” And in doing so, writes just about the only thing on the movie/book that I’ve ever cared enough to read about. Vol. 1 Story Series reader, and contributor to the site, Tobias Carroll went to go see The Beets, Golden Triangle, and Thee Oh Sees (maybe the best lineup of the summer), and this is what he thought. Tablet discusses the essays of the late Leonard Michaels Carrie Brownstein asks […]
Dulcimers Played, Strings Played By Tobias Carroll
This is the first contribution to Vol. 1 Brooklyn by Tobias Carroll, who does the site The Scowl. He will be telling a story at our upcoming Vol. 1 Story Series this Friday, June 19th A year before, Byron had received a letter from Nathan recounting the circumstances of Gordon’s death. Along with it were photographs of the event that followed: the ritualized destruction of four half-scale effigies of Byron. One had been drawn and quartered; one, burned; one, dropped […]
Vol. 1 Story Series: June, 2009
Great moments in summer vacation history: 1. Around 1070 A.D. William the Conqueror institutes a summer break for all courts of law 2. In one year between 1982-1983, The Go-Go’s release the hit single “Vacation” and Clark Griswold goes takes the family to see the U.S. in “National Lampoon’s Vacation.” 3. June 19th, 2009 Chris Leo (writer/musician in The Van Pelt) Tom Shillue (comedian) Tobias Carroll (writer) Maggie Serota (freelance writer/A.V Club) Justin Maurer (Writer/singer in The Clorox Girls) Isaac […]
Vol. 1 Brooklyn Story Series, Feb. 2009
Hexedjournal.com and Sadie Magazine Co-present Vol. 1 Feb 20th, 2009“Ex-Lovers” Five dollar suggested donation. All profits go to 826NYC Kimberlee Auerbach is a performer, teacher and author of The Devil, The Lovers & Me: My Life In Tarot (Dutton 8/07). Her one-woman show, which inspired her memoir, played to sold-out houses in NYC. She teaches memoir writing at Mediabistro, creative writing at Gotham Writers Workshop and counsels 8th grade girls at Liberty LEADS at Bank Street College of Education.John Wray […]