This Thursday, November 17th at 7 p.m., Vol.1 will be presenting the third edition of our Civic Pride series. The fine people at WORD in Greenpoint (126 Franklin St.) will be hosting; the area focused on this time will be the always-popular New Jersey. And it will feature (in alphabetical order): * Barbara Browning (author of The Correspondence Artist and the forthcoming I’m Trying to Reach You); * Jackie Corley (author of The Suburban Swindle and editor/publisher of Word Riot); […]
Vol. 1 Presents: Civic Pride: New Jersey
“Jersey’s where America’s at!” – Some guy in Todd Solondz’s Storytelling. What’s the deal with New Jersey? On one hand it’s the great state that has given us talents from Philip Roth to Patti Smith, and on the other it’s the ongoing punchline for a thousand snobbish jokes told by New Yorkers who seem obvious as to the true greatness of the Garden State. It’s the state that hosted the first recorded baseball game, the home of Thomas Edison, the […]
V1’s “Civic Pride: Washington D.C.”: Awesomeness in Action
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 […]
Vol. 1 Presents: Civic Pride “Best of Chicago” with Adam Levin, Jami Attenberg and Free Beer
On November 5th, we will be hosting the first of our newest series called Civic Pride, and the idea is to have a few readers who are from, or have stories from a particular city, state or country, and couple their stories with free beer and/or food from the particular place we’re highlighting. For the first installment, Chicago is the city we will focus on, and we have 2 readers who have put out books this year that will surely […]