Morning Bites: Etgar Keret, Tanlines Guy Archiving, Jazz Age Ladies, Molly Ringwald’s Boots, and More

We’d like to remind you that this Sunday, April 29th, we’re teaming up with Bomb, FSG, and Tumblr to bring you an evening with Etgar Keret who will be in conversation with Lorin Stein of The Paris Review at PowerHouse Arena.  RSVP at Facebook. Cynthia Ozick is interviewed at The Guardian. Rebellious ladies of Fitzgerald’s Jazz Age. The Millions talk to Lauren Groff. LitKicks on Ed McClanahan’s I Just Hitched in From the Coast. The guy from Tanlines archives old Jewish […]

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Afternoon Bites: Cinematic Burroughs, Tanlines, NaNoWriMo, and more

Via Vulture, we hear that Steve Buscemi will be directing an adaptation of William Burroughs’s novel Queer. Promising news regarding the rent issues befalling St. Marks Bookshop. At the Matador Records blog, a look at the state of indie record stores. Nick Harkaway on NaNoWriMo. (h/t WORD) Maura Johnston talks Twitter with Jesse Cohen of the fine group Tanlines. Ron Hogan on Stephen King’s 11/22/63: “revitalizes the [alternate history] concept and gives it a renewed emotional power…” Follow Vol. 1 Brooklyn on Twitter, Facebook, […]

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