Poetry in Motion: Mike Tyson’s Bad Dreams

By age 20, Mike Tyson was not only boxing’s heavyweight champion, but the most dominant athlete of the 1980s.  Not even the massive egos and grand stamina of Michael Jordan, Carl Lewis, or Rickey Henderson could deliver such a claim. He made his modest fighting height of 5’10” into a net positive, by employing a “peek-a-boo” technique of ducking extremely low in order to block opponents’ punches, and in his prime delivered his blows the way a typhoon delivers hydration: […]

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Michiko Kakutani does Twitter?

Posted by Jason Diamond The literary Twitter world waits with baited breath to find out just who the person behind the Michiko Kakutani account is.  Some people don’t believe it’s truly her, but until we hear otherwise, we’re going to hold out and hope that it’s the real deal.   Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, and our Tumblr.

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Bites: Book Review Highlights, Kakutani Two-Step, Required Reading, the Millennials, and Why Our Media is Getting Scolded

Celebrated artist of the female form, Peter Paul Rubens, was “a man of controlled appetites, with a modest disposition and a reputation for tact and discretion.” He was also a diplomat, spy, and peace-maker, according to Mark Lamster’s new book “Master of Shadows.” Other Book Review Highlights: A history, slightly obsessive, of Strunk & White’s little style book.(NYT) Michael Chabon’s new essays: “First Person Masculine”?(NYT) Has anyone else noticed that James Joyce has been tryin’ to change a lot of […]

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