For your Friday reading: a pair of reviews of Emma Straub’s The Vacationers, Jami Attenberg on love letters, Maura Johnston on radio, Lorin Stein interviewed, and much more.
Delving into musical history with John Jeremiah Sullivan, Jen Doll interviewed Leah Umansky, notes on cosmic horror, discussing the new Alex Chilton biography, and more.
A look back at NYC loft spaces in the 70s and 80s, new writing from Emily Gould and Jamie Iredell, news on the film of Kevin Wilson’s The Family Fang, and more.
The Best Books I Read in 2013 My fellow passengers on a flight to LA last month must have thought I was insane. Reading Meaty, Samantha Irby’s TMI-filled collection of essays (a recent Emily Books selection), I found myself one minute crying over a young Irby being smacked by her alcoholic dad because she’d washed a cast iron pan with soap; the next I was laughing out loud at her mediations on the indignities of sex between real, flawed humans […]
In our Monday morning reading: Toby Barlow on George Plimpton, thoughts on small books, a review of the new Oblivians album, some excellent band t-shirts, tributes to the work of Iain M. Banks, and more.
Jami Attenberg’s The Middlesteins, a book we loved a whole heck of a lot last year (which will be celebrating its paperback release on June 6th at Housing Works), gets the cinematic treatment thanks to a bunch of high school boys. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google +, our Tumblr, and sign up for our mailing list.
Rachel Kushner on Clarice Lispector. Electric Literature‘s roundup of what numerous smart literary folks are anticipating in 2013 is doing a fine job of making our to-read lists increase. Jami Attenberg interviewed Rosie Schaap for The Rumpus. Edward Champion’s new broadcasting venture is Follow Your Ears; the first episode is up now. Bored to Death: the movie? We’re totally okay with that idea. The L Magazine has a look at last week’s Fireside Follies reading. Patrick Somerville will be adapting […]
This Sunday’s New York Times Book Review features on its cover a fine review of Jami Attenberg’s excellent The Middlesteins. Which is, we feel pretty confident saying, a terrific and well-deserved piece of news.