Poetry in Motion: What to Read Based on Who You’re Rooting For in the NBA Playoffs (Eastern Conference Round-Up)

Another day, another half of America’s finest sports league. In the conclusion of V1’s two-part preview of this year’s NBA playoffs, we turn to the readily-dismissed Eastern Conference, whose top seeds have emerged as contenders amidst a field of lower-hanging fruit and also-rans. Yet devoted fans of all eight squads will be pleased to know that we’ve got great reading recommendations custom-made for each crew. Whether your team of choice is one and done or going all the way, you’ll […]

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Afternoon Bites: David Bowie’s Latest, Cinematic Bars, Tim Horvath’s Short Fiction Tips, New Waxhatchee, and More

“It’s a sound rooted in a history that includes early Rilo Kiley, the Mountain Goats, Barsuk Records, and Saddle Creek: small-town, big-hearted indie-rock realism. Through unpolished sounds come intimate, unpolished scenes.” Mike Powell on Waxahatchee’s Cerulean Salt. Waxahatchee also played last week’s Indie Pop Prom, which was covered by the likes of the Times’s Jon Caramanica and Impose. Rosie Schaap recommends her favorite cinematic bar scenes. “…from song one, he sounds like he’s working hard, short of the times when he’s […]

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Afternoon Bites: A “Bored to Death” Movie, Cinematic Patrick Somerville, Talking Clarice Lispector, and More

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 […]

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Afternoon Bites: Seattle Zines, Best Post-Velvet Underground Albums, Soundsuit Horses in Grand Central, and More

The Stranger has details on the APRIL Festival, which sounds utterly fantastic, and makes at least one of us seriously consider booking a plane ticket to Seattle for late in the month of March. Rosie Schaap on Robert Burns and scotch. Nick Cave — the American artist, not the Australian musician – will be filling Grand Central with soundsuit horses in March. Come’s Eleven: Eleven is getting a deluxe reissue later this year. The best post-VU albums by members of the Velvet […]

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