In our afternoon reading: a Nobel Prize for Louise Glück, an interview with Edward P Jones, and more.
E Is For Edward Gorey Born On This Day
My first recollection of experiencing Edward Gorey’s work came when I was a kid, when I kept watching PBS long after my block of Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers was up. There was a man in a suit that talked for a few moments about becoming a member of the station, then all of a sudden this odd cartoon came on and I was transfixed until it was over and some people with English accents started talking. After that I vainly tried […]
Morning Bites: Shel Silverstein archive, The Royal Foers, Crystal Stilts, and more
So many treasures from the Shel Silverstein archive. New idea for a Wes Anderson movie: The Royal Foers, starring Jonathan, Joshua, Franklin, and their monopoly fighting father. Jonathan Ames writes about his life as a bachelor. Marc Maron talks to Conan. Keegan Cooke of Crystal Stilts makes a pretty fine soul mixtape for Magnet. The classical Christmas music you should be listening to. Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, and our Tumblr. Got tips for Bites? Info@Vol1brooklyn.com
Morning Bites: MacArthur Grants, Live…Suburbia, Salman Rushdie’s tweets, Emma Straub’s tags, and more
A little preview of the very cool book Live… Suburbia!, coming out on Powerhouse Books at the end of the month. Emma Straub wrote something for Rookie that has the tags, 90210, first time, Friday Night Lights, sex, and TV. Upton Sinclair was born on this day in 1887, and so was Jelly Roll Morton, two years earlier, in 1885. Salman Rushdie is on Twitter. No word if he’s following @Qwikster or not. The 2011 MacArthur Genius Grants have been […]
Indexing, Special Edition: V1 Editors on Their Favorite Literary Romances
In honor of Valentine’s Day, Vol. 1 today presents a special Monday edition of Indexing, in which our editors talk about their favorite examples of literary love, sex, and romances doomed and enduring from a variety of great books. Tobias Carroll Coming of age, I took many a life lesson from the books, music, and movies around me — everything from punk records to Martin Scorsese’s adaptation of The Age of Innocence. More recently, I’ve learned that most of these […]
Youtubing for Shel
You can shoot me for saying this, but aside from the fact that he was a die-hard Chicago White Sox fan, Shel Silverstein was possibly one of the top five dudes of the twentieth century. He wrote one of Johnny Cash’s (another of the top dudes) most well-loved songs, Hugh Hefner sent him all over the world to draw pictures, was a playwright, and he wrote and illustrated some of the most best-loved children books ever. I fished around Youtube, […]
Bites: New Princeton song, bad children books, fiction issues, the growing influence of Kindle, and more
Last year when we conversed with Princeton (pictured above), they were just getting over the heaps of critical praise after six months promoting their phenomenal four song Bloomsbury EP, we hardly had any ideas about their future. Now, nearly five months after that conversation, the group gets set to release their first album on Kanine Records, Cocoon of Love, and have given us the first single, “Calypso Gold“. I now predict that the world is six months away from being […]