Zadie Smith on defending libraries at the New York Review of Books blog. Stephen Elliott talks to Dave Eggers at The Rumpus. Laurent Binet talks to Critical Mob about HHhH. Did you catch Hemingway & Gellhorn on HBO? Brad Listi talks to Jery Stahl about it at the Other People podcast. Book perfume is finally a thing. A documentary on New Zealand punks circa 1982 at WFMU. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google + and our Tumblr.
Morning Bites: Literary Paint Chips, Bon Iver Erotica, Three 6 Cormac McCarthy, and More
Zadie Smith and Colm Tóibín hung out at Symphony Space and a few Vol. 1 people were there. The Paris Review rounds up some beautiful literary paint chips. “I’m lying in bed right now, and Bon Iver is chopping up heirloom tomatoes for our frittata.” – Bon Iver Erotica is the best Tumblr we saw this week. Filmmaker Magazine caught Jonathan Lethem doing a little talking. Blake Butler compares the histories of Three 6 Mafia and Cormac McCarthy at Vice. Gertrude Stein, a […]
Afternoon Bites: Cinematic Zadie Smith, Magnetic Fields In The Paris Review, Harvey Pekar, And More
Zadie Smith’s On Beauty is getting adapted for film, courtesy of director Kasi Lemmons. Teju Cole: currently making his way through the Tournament of Books brackets; currently writing astute things about direct speech and international politics. Emma Straub is sharing her experiences of the current Magnetic Fields tour with The Paris Review. Harvey Pekar’s final memoir will be titled Not the Israel My Parents Promised Me. Aaron Burch eulogizes the now-shuttered Barnes & Noble where he worked in college. The […]
Morning Bites: Alice Bag’s “Violence Girl,” DeLillo talks, Gingrich as Ahab, V.C. Andrews talk, Mike Patton scores with Ryan Gosling, and more
Alice Bag, the frontwoman of the seminal LA punk band The Bags, has a new book out called Violence Girl. She talks to SF Weekly about it. How Newt Gingrich is like Captain Ahab. Don DeLillo talks to Granta. Zadie Smith, Howard Jacobson, and some other famous writers are putting out new books this year. Tonight: Edith Zimmerman, Rachel Shukert, and Emily Nussbaum reading and discussing the works of V.C. Andrews live in Brooklyn. In the event you need a Ryan Gosling fix, […]
Morning Bites: Plagiarizing Zadie Smith, Gay Talese’s Backseat, Girl Crush Zine, Henry Rollins, and more
Did a Turkish writer rip off Zadie Smith? Also, Sesame Street characters will not get married, Girl Crush Zine, and much more.
Bites: David Foster Wallace Living on, Zadie Smith & Nathan Englander, Chabon Essay and More
At The Chronicle: The afterlife of David Foster Walace. At Guernica Mag: A video of Nathan Englander and Zadie Smith in conversation. At 3:AM Magazine: A poetry generator which “defines a space of language populated by a number of stanzas comparable to the number of fish in the sea,” using stanzas from Emily Dickinson’s poems and Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. At The Atlantic: Michael Chabon writes a new essay.
Weekend Bites: 21st Century Sherlock, Paul Auster Reviewed, Franco as Bruce Nauman and More
At The Daily Beast: The 21st Century Sherlock on Masterpiece Mystery. At The New York Times: The Paris Review opens up it’s archives. At Telegraph: Paul Auster’s Sunset park is reviewed: “While there are moments of intensity, beauty even, these are fleeting, bright flashes, like silver fish in a grey and weltering sea.” At Flavorwire: Citing that James Franco’s “Cultural Ubiquity Tour must roll on,” a video of the actor, writer, student in sixteen MFA programs, as Bruce Nauman. At […]
Tuesday Morning Stuff: Vassar Girls Making Noise, Zadie Smith, Misfits Covers, and More
Ever heard of The Vassar G-Stringers? Me neither, until now. Hey Zadie! Zadie Smith has a new book column at Harpers. People (like myself) are psyched. Inferno by Eileen Myles is reviewed at 3:AM Magazine. Superchunk + Todd Barry =s Misfits cover.