Afternoon Bites: Ryan Boudinot, Jonathan Lethem, Tim Kinsella, and more

At the Portland Mercury, Alison Hallett looks at Ryan Boudinot’s Blueprints of the Afterlife, which looks increasingly inescapable: “calls to mind Jonathan Lethem’s recent Chronic City and the work of screenwriter Charlie Kaufman, as much as it does sci-fi predecessors like Philip K. Dick or even Cory Doctorow.” At The Lit Pub, Greg Stahl looks at Tim Kinsella’s The Karaoke Singer’s Guide to Self-Defense. (We reviewed it earlier this month.) Hey, it’s Jonathan Lethem’s book on Fear of Music. At Reading in LA: Amanda Briggs considered. […]

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Afternoon Bites: Ryan Boudinot, Lookout! Records, Joshua Cohen, and more

“If books become mere art objects, do e-books become conceptual art? ” Joshua Cohen writes about taking copies of Triple Canopy to Germany. Warren Ellis shares his thoughts on Christopher Hitchens’s Arguably. Paul Di Fillippo reviews Ryan Boudinot’s Blueprints of the Afterlife. Spencer Ackerman pays tribute to the late Lookout! Records. New Yorkers: Nerd Jeopardy’s happening on Wednesday. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, and our Tumblr. Got tips for Bites?  Info@Vol1brooklyn.com

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Afternoon Bites: “Retromania” discussed, Matt Fraction, Julianna Barwick, and more

At Bookforum, Ann Powers, Carl Wilson, and Daphne Carr discuss Simon Reynolds’s Retromania and the issues it raises. Tonight’s panel at McNally Jackson on zines and DIY culture gone digital sounds mightily interesting. Conversational Reading has a guide to interesting books set to be released in the months to come. Matt Fraction: interviewed about comics and metal. (“I bet Thor would go see Mastodon play live. And Clutch. Emma Frost would be a X-Ray Spex/new wave girl…”) The first installment […]

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