Colin Dickey discusses Virginia Woolf; interviews with Mary Timony, Barbara Browning, and Sarah Lipstate; smart writers debate Amazon; Teju Cole-inspired clothing; and more.
Virginia Woolf on characters, Benjamin Kunkel talks politics, a House of Cardsreading list, an interview with Errol Morris, and 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 […]
Four words: Numero Group reissues Unwound. No big deal; just Patti Smith reading from Virginia Woolf’s The Waves. HTML Giant interviewed Lars Iyer, whose Exodus is out now from Melville House. So, about that contentious New York Public Library renovation? Michael Kimmelman has some questions about that. The New Yorker on polite graffiti. Chris Mautner on unjustly forgotten comics anthologies. A look back on Neil Gaiman’s The Books of Magic. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + our Tumblr, and sign up for our mailing list.
A few months ago, we posted a picture of a t-shirt with an image of Virginia Woolf in a pair of wayfarer sunglasses, and received a lot of comments and e-mails asking where the shirt was available for purchase.
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Did Virginia Woolf and her Bloomsbury chums have a rabbi friend? (Also: That’s Lytton Strachey, not a rabbi.) Read three chapters from Sam McPheeters forthcoming book, Loom of the Room. There’s a new issue of n+1 available. Alan Lomax gets the complete digital treatment. Whet Moser on the GOP’s use of Saul Alinsky’s name to conjure up fear of Satanists. Dylan Carlson of Earth tries to go solo. Hopefully it will have some sort of Cormac McCarthy influence. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn […]
Virginia Woolf was born on this day in 1882. And since yesterday was Edith Wharton’s birthday, the New York Times takes at great social climbers, and makes the Wharton-Downton Abbey connection. The Guardian on Occupy!: Scenes from Occupied America. Electric Literature unveils the latest in their Single Sentence Animation series. Chuck Klosterman goes to Wikipedia for clues on tUnE-yArDs personality, then writes an article about her for Grantland. A Stephen Colbert cocktail. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr. Got tips for […]