The Rumpus interviews Merrill Garbus of Tune-Yards. A ridiculously deluxe edition (hint: chessboard!) of GZA’s Liquid Swords is coming soon. Kyle Minor would like to recommend some novellas. Maria Sherman has a report from Chaos in Tejas. Capital New York on Narratively, a new site devoted to longform journalism. Heather Muse chats with Old 97s guy Rhett Miller. The Atlantic Wire visited Book Expo America, and chatted with a couple of booksellers while they were there. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, Google […]
Morning Bites: Borders Bankruptcy, Jon Glasser’s Dad, Kyle Minor Talks New Yorker and More
Borders files for bankruptcy. The Borders Twitter says: Gatsby gets the 8-bit treatment, but don’t forget about the video game for Waiting for Godot. The Guardian has an exclusive trailer for the film adaptation of Haruki Murakami’s Norwegian Wood. Kyle Minor shares (more than) a few words about the most recent issue of The New Yorker. Seriously, is this the best issue to come out in the last few years? Everybody loves it. Jon Glaser’s talks about his dead dad […]
Bites: Patton Oswalt gets an Essay, Lethem in California, Dog Poetry, David Markson Marginalia and More
Patton Oswalt earns The Millions essay treatment. Does Jonathan Lethem miss the cold New York winter? (Which is actually quite warm today.) Matt Bell & Kyle Minor talking electronic editions and self-publishing. The accidental poetry of American Kennel Club. A Tumblr of David Markson marginalia.
Indexing: Adam Ross, Emily St. John Mandel, the Ace Hotel, Symbiopsychotaxiplasm, and so much more!
Our weekly series where Vol. 1 editors talk about what they’re reading, listening to and watching. Juliet Linderman I was lucky enough to scam a galley of Justin Taylor’s forthcoming book and first novel The Gospel of Anarchy a few weeks ago after our Vol. 1 November reading, and I read it in a flash. Yeah yeah yeah, Justin Taylor is a good friend of Vol. 1, but even if he wasn’t I’d still have to say: Damn. Dude can […]
Friends of Barry Hannah
A few days after Kyle Minor’s epic reading of Barry Hannah’s posthumous Long, Last, Happy: New and Selected Stories at HTML GIANT, Bryan Charles blogs about his correspondence with the late writer at Powell’s. Also, over at Bookforum, Nathaniel Rich’s piece on Hannah is up on the net as well as the cover story for the print mag.