July 2012
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The How-To Issue: How to Read in Public →
The first contributions to The How-To Issue have arrived, including Leigh Stein on reading in public…
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“Dickens is a much misunderstood and mis-approached writer, in that he tends to...”
– Vulture chats with Martin Amis about Dickens (and a lot more).
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“However much I enjoyed trying to get the world into words, the rejections were...”
– Tim Parks’s essay “Does Money Make Us Write Better?” at The New York Review of Books makes for interesting reading.
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BookStalked: Jason Diamond
Our own Jason Diamond chats with bookstalker, and in the process talks about some upcoming events.
Jason Diamond is a true powerhouse in the NY lit scene. He founded culture site Vol. 1 Brooklyn, hosts its related reading series, works at Flavorpill as the New York deputy editor, and writes for pubs like The New York Times, The Paris Review, and The Rumpus. This past May, Jason used his handy...
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“With live comedy, I’m more interested in absurdity and entertaining myself first...”
– A Relatively Brief, and Only Somewhat Timely, Interview With Author, Comedian, Style Icon Dave Hill | Vol. 1 Brooklyn
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Write Place, Write Time: Karolina Waclawiak →
writeplacewritetime gives us a look inside Karolina Waclawiak’s writing space.
On my particular writing wall I have framed temporary tattoos by Jenny Holzer from her show at the Guggenheim a few years ago, a photo still from our favorite movie “Bill and Coo” featuring an all-bird cast from 1948, photos of my mother as a kid in Catholic school in Poland, my young grandmother holding a black...
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“When I was in my twenties, I made a lot of bad, amateurish things. I made a ton...”
– Conversation: Talking “Office Girl,” Chicago, and Art Movements with Joe Meno | Vol. 1 Brooklyn
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