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Thoughts on books and culture, plus original fiction and essays.
In our afternoon reading: thoughts on novels by Barbara Pym and Susannah Felts, revisiting Norman Mailer, and more.
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Afternoon Bites: Revisiting Barbara Pym, Susanna Felts’s Novel, Scott Adlerberg on Norman Mailer, and More
In our afternoon reading: thoughts on novels by Barbara Pym and Susannah Felts, revisiting Norman Mailer, and more.
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/06/16/afternoon-bites-revisiting-barbara-pym-susanna-feltss-novel-scott-adlerberg-on-norman-mailer-and-more/
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LySandra Vuong on Bookmarking a New Volume of “Covenant”
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LySandra Vuong on Bookmarking a New Volume of “Covenant”
In recent years, LySandra Vuong’s fantasy series Covenant has found a dedicated audience with its take on fantasy adventures, musings on religion, and romance. A crowdfunding/preorder campaig…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/06/16/lysandra-vuong-on-bookmarking-a-new-volume-of-covenant/
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Saving the One You Couldn’t Save: On “Surviving Derrida: A Politics of Friendship with Avital Ronell in Six Parts”
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Saving the One You Couldn’t Save: On “Surviving Derrida: A Politics of Friendship with Avital Ronell in Six Parts”
In recollections of her friendship with Kathy Acker, Avital Ronell writes, “Derrida locates in surviving the origin and essence of friendship. Not empirically or chronologically clocked but fundame…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/06/16/saving-the-one-you-couldnt-save-on-surviving-derrida-a-politics-of-friendship-with-avital-ronell-in-six-parts/
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Announcing the Cover of Matthew Wong Foreman’s “Sunset at Lion Rock”
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Announcing the Cover of Matthew Wong Foreman’s “Sunset at Lion Rock”
We’re pleased to debut the cover art for Matthew Wong Foreman’s forthcoming novel Sunset at Lion Rock, set to be published by 7.13 Books on September 15, 2026. The novel, set in Hong Ko…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/06/15/announcing-the-cover-of-matthew-wong-foremans-sunset-at-lion-rock/
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"My favorite place to find them was on the tram during the evening rush. The mornings were just as busy, but I found their expressiveness to be muted by sleep."
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Sunday Stories: “After You”
After Youby Alex Treuber I was nineteen years old when I started following people. The first was a young man holding a bouquet of flowers with tears running down his cheeks. I followed him down to …
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/06/14/sunday-stories-after-you/
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"This question gets me thinking about consciousness and whether we actually have any defining characteristics or whether we are a compendium of the objects we have experienced or choose to think about."
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Everyday Nightmares: Charlene Elsby on “Poor Damned Souls”
So I sat down with Charlene Elsby’s Poor Damned Souls one evening and found myself reading a book about a relationship about to collapse. That quickly turned into something much bleaker, whic…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/06/09/everyday-nightmares-charlene-elsby-on-poor-damned-souls/
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"Can you lift the lid and smell? Do you think it smells bad? Like, unusually? Did you notice weird smells on me?"
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Sunday Stories: “Cat Rituals”
Cat Ritualsby Alex Behr Please empty the litter box. He pees a lot. Play the game called “Find the prize” every day with the scooper thing. There are lots of prizes!
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/06/07/sunday-stories-cat-rituals/
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We’d Like to Recommend Some June 2026 Books
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We’d Like to Recommend Some June 2026 Books
Hello and welcome to the month of June. We hope that you started out the month with the traditional utterance of “rabbit rabbit.” We are currently immersing ourselves in Ibrahim Alfa Jn…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/06/05/wed-like-to-recommend-some-june-2026-books/
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"It’s been said that zillennials, the micro-generation generally defined as those born in the mid to late 1990s, have a particular affinity for nostalgia, coming of age during the denouement of physical media."
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Nostalgia, A Cautionary Tale
Nostalgia, A Cautionary Taleby Emma Davey I have an excellent memory. If I close my eyes, I can drop myself into a favorite kindergarten field trip or the way I would always eat Grandma’s-bra…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/06/03/nostalgia-a-cautionary-tale/
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Cuisine With a Dash of History: A Review of “The Swedish Cookbook”
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Cuisine With a Dash of History: A Review of “The Swedish Cookbook”
The Swedish Cookbook by Niklas Ekstedt is a beautifully crafted celebration of Nordic simplicity, balance and flavor — a book that feels both timeless and refreshingly modern. Ekstedt brings his si…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/06/02/cuisine-with-a-dash-of-history-a-review-of-the-swedish-cookbook/
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"Was there pre-kiss discussion or did the kiss come ex nihilo? Was there tongue initially, or did tongue happen later? Was the first kiss a pure and self-contained act, or was it a gateway move?"
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Sunday Stories: “Righteous Kiss”
Righteous Kissby Joe Aguilar I’m standing in a musty side room beside the cafeteria at my five-year high school reunion, looking at our friend the goldfish, when I start to wonder about kissing.&nb…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/05/31/sunday-stories-righteous-kiss/
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“A Literary Event”: A Review of Nicholas Boggs’s “Baldwin: A Love Story”
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“A Literary Event”: A Review of Nicholas Boggs’s “Baldwin: A Love Story”
For more than three decades, the literary world has waited for a definitive, fresh examination of one of the 20th century’s most vital voices. In Baldwin: A Love Story, Nicholas Boggs delivers not …
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/05/26/a-literary-event-a-review-of-nicholas-boggss-baldwin-a-love-story/
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Weekend Bites: Jimin Han Interviewed, Jesmyn Ward’s Essays, Seefeel’s Latest, and More
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Weekend Bites: Jimin Han Interviewed, Jesmyn Ward’s Essays, Seefeel’s Latest, and More
In our weekend reading: an interview with Jimin Han, thoughts on Jesmyn Ward’s essay collection, and more.We’re taking the holiday weekend off; normal posting will resume Tuesday.
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/05/23/weekend-bites-jimin-han-interviewed-jesmyn-wards-essays-seefeels-latest-and-more/
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Music For Fictional Bookstores: An Interview with Real Estate’s Martin Courtney
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Music For Fictional Bookstores: An Interview with Real Estate’s Martin Courtney
Following an East Coast screening tour at independent bookstores, the pilot episode of new comedy sitcom Broadway Books was released in conjunction with National Bookseller Day last month. A charmi…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/05/21/music-for-fictional-bookstores-an-interview-with-real-estates-martin-courtney/
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Mark Russell on Unearthing “The Forgotten Divine”
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Mark Russell on Unearthing “The Forgotten Divine”
You might know writer Mark Russell’s comics work through his Second Coming, which riffs on both divinity and superheroes; or through his reimagining of The Flintstones for DC Comics. His late…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/05/18/mark-russell-on-unearthing-the-forgotten-divine/
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Stone Cold Jane Austen
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Tobias Carroll
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is the GOAT of book knowledge (particularly translation) and I ALWAYS heed what he has to recommend over at Vol 1 Brooklyn
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We’d Like to Recommend Some May 2026 Books
Hello. You know the drill. It’s May; we have some books we’d like to recommend. Some fiction, some nonfiction, some poetry. In other words, here’s what we’re excited about t…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/05/13/wed-like-to-recommend-some-may-2026-books/
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"The piano plays something beautiful and tragic and an antique chandelier swings gently over my head."
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Sunday Stories: “I Went to Paris Because I’m a Writer Now”
I Went to Paris Because I’m a Writer Nowby Kobi Ansong My phone buzzes. A text from the homie: Ay bruh, you in Paris reading books? lmao I wander over footbridges and cobblestone streets.There’s pe…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/05/17/sunday-stories-i-went-to-paris-because-im-a-writer-now/
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I had the pleasure of interviewing
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on her narration - this weekend! - of “Enoch Arden” at Baltimore Theatre Project. The show runs: Tonight, tomorrow - and join me Sunday for the matinee!
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Love, Loss, and Legal Loopholes: Tennyson’s “Enoch Arden” Gets a Modern Musical Revival
Alfred, Lord Tennyson once wrote a poem so moving, so poignant in its depiction of grief and loss of love that the piece’s eventual impact would ripple far beyond the Victorian literary world of it…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/05/15/love-loss-and-legal-loopholes-tennysons-enoch-arden-gets-a-modern-musical-revival/
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Love, Loss, and Legal Loopholes: Tennyson’s “Enoch Arden” Gets a Modern Musical Revival
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Love, Loss, and Legal Loopholes: Tennyson’s “Enoch Arden” Gets a Modern Musical Revival
Alfred, Lord Tennyson once wrote a poem so moving, so poignant in its depiction of grief and loss of love that the piece’s eventual impact would ripple far beyond the Victorian literary world of it…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/05/15/love-loss-and-legal-loopholes-tennysons-enoch-arden-gets-a-modern-musical-revival/
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The Final Nightingale (Farewell to Nedra Talley)
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The Final Nightingale (Farewell to Nedra Talley)
The downside of an enchanting revelry comes at waking to realize it was all a dream. This was the feeling on learning Nedra Talley, the final nightingale of that inimitable trio, The Ronettes, had …
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/05/14/the-final-nightingale-farewell-to-nedra-talley/
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We’d Like to Recommend Some May 2026 Books
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We’d Like to Recommend Some May 2026 Books
Hello. You know the drill. It’s May; we have some books we’d like to recommend. Some fiction, some nonfiction, some poetry. In other words, here’s what we’re excited about t…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/05/13/wed-like-to-recommend-some-may-2026-books/
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"And so against their better judgement, Gretchen and Hans went down — down — down — into the subway system."
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Sunday Stories: “Hans and Gretchen”
Hans and Gretchenby Terena Elizabeth Bell Once upon a time, there was a set of twins named Hans and Gretchen who lived on New York’s Upper East Side. Not the Yorkville part of the Upper East Side w…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/05/10/sunday-stories-hans-and-gretchen/
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Weekend Bites: Stephanie LaCava's Novel, Revisiting Robert Coover, Kraftwerk Reissued, and More
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Weekend Bites: Stephanie LaCava’s Novel, Revisiting Robert Coover, Kraftwerk Reissued, and More
In our weekend reading: thoughts on novels by Stephanie LaCava and Antoine Volodine, thoughts on a Kraftwerk reissue, and more.
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/05/09/weekend-bites-stephanie-lacavas-novel-revisiting-robert-coover-kraftwerk-reissued-and-more/
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In our afternoon reading: fiction by Jeff VanderMeer and John Langan, a Spring book preview, and more.
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Afternoon Bites: A Jeff VanderMeer Story, Revisiting Les Rallizes Dénudés, John Langan’s Fiction and More
In our afternoon reading: fiction by Jeff VanderMeer and John Langan, a Spring book preview, and more.
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/05/07/afternoon-bites-a-jeff-vandermeer-story-revisiting-les-rallizes-denudes-john-langans-fiction-and-more/
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"Before arriving at the game component, I found myself in an outer room that the gallery had set up, in which hung a few large-scale blurry paintings. I looked at them, and they didn’t seem to be about anything in particular."
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Sorel Syndrome
Sorel Syndromeby Sai Pradhan Twice this past year, I experienced a racing heart, confusion, and a general loss for words at art shows. If only it had been an abundance of awe-inspiring beauty and m…
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"He was older than us and a mystery. Even though he was technically a member of the church, too, no one had seen him at services or events for a few years."
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Sunday Stories: “Gunsmith”
Gunsmithby Henry Luzzatto When I was six years old, I got suspended from school for pretending a stick was a gun. I remember pointing it at Ms. Gore, that reedy, perm-wearing teacher with too-large…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/05/03/sunday-stories-gunsmith/
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Weekend Bites: Xochitl Gonzalez on Books, Nick Antosca on Todd Grimson, Jess Hagemann's Latest, and More
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Weekend Bites: Xochitl Gonzalez on Books, Nick Antosca on Todd Grimson, Jess Hagemann’s Latest, and More
In our weekend reading: talking books with Xochitl Gonzalez, revisiting the work of Todd Grimson, and more.
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/05/02/weekend-bites-xochitl-gonzalez-on-books-nick-antosca-on-todd-grimson-jess-hagemanns-latest-and-more/
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Adrian Nathan West on Translating Mario Vargas Llosa
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Adrian Nathan West on Translating Mario Vargas Llosa
What does it mean to translate the work of a Nobel laureate? That’s a task that writer and translator Adrian Nathan West has had to consider: among his body of work are translations of two no…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/04/30/adrian-nathan-west-on-translating-mario-vargas-llosa/
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Exploring the World of Xiaoyu’s Graphic Novel “Twin Lotuses”
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Exploring the World of Xiaoyu’s Graphic Novel “Twin Lotuses”
This week brings with it the release of Twin Lotuses, a graphic novel from Xiaoyu. In their review, Publishers Weekly had plenty of good things to say: “The sweeping English-language debut fr…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/04/28/exploring-the-world-of-xiaoyus-graphic-novel-twin-lotuses/
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"I’d been near blackout, running around with her that night, doing anything I could to forget, not feel, feel something else, escape from the windmill of my mind for any time available."
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Sunday Stories: “Selfies”
Selfiesby X.C. Atkins When I woke up, I reached for my phone. I really hated this about myself. This gross reflex.
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/04/26/sunday-stories-selfies/
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Inside the Culinary Archives: On Luke Barr’s “The Secret History of French Cooking”
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Inside the Culinary Archives: On Luke Barr’s “The Secret History of French Cooking”
Luke Barr’s The Secret History of French Cooking is an absolute feast—an irresistible blend of culinary archaeology, cultural storytelling, and pure gastronomic joy. Barr has a gift for takin…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/04/24/inside-the-culinary-archives-on-luke-barrs-the-secret-history-of-french-cooking/
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"As modern readers of Austen, we find ourselves suddenly bequeathed with all the time and money we need to focus on what matters, which is, of course, rich people going to each other’s houses."
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I Am Quite at My Leisure
I Am Quite at My Leisure: A Journey Through Jane Austen, Stardew Valley, and the Romanticization of Spare Timeby Ireland Headrick Donald Sutherland sinks back in his chair, tears gated, eyebrows wi…
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A Glimpse Inside Stephan Franck’s “Palomino”
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A Glimpse Inside Stephan Franck’s “Palomino”
We’re happy to present a preview of the sixth and concluding volume of Stephan Franck’s noir comic series Palomino, for which a Kickstarter campaign is now live. Previous volumes in the…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/04/22/a-glimpse-inside-stephan-francks-palomino/
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Saturday thread of stuff I've published so far this year! For your reading pleasure (or displeasure if you do not like it): First up: a creepy story in
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Sunday Stories: “We Buy Houses”
We Buy Housesby Chloe N. Clark My parents had been planning to move for as long as I could remember. They were always talking about picking everything up and speeding across the state, across the c…
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"She looks up from her phone smiling. But it seems like a grimace. She uses her left hand to massage the right shoulder. She rolls it in the socket."
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Sunday Stories: “Those Days Are Over”
Those Days Are Overby Steve Anwyll Drivers treat rue Saint-Jacques like a race track. Waiting at the corner S hoists a bag meant for camping on his shoulders. The weight is meant for a younger man.…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/04/19/sunday-stories-those-days-are-over/
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Weekend Bites: Nora Lange’s Latest, Time Loop Fiction, Revisiting Spacemen 3, and More
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Weekend Bites: Nora Lange’s Latest, Time Loop Fiction, Revisiting Spacemen 3, and More
In our weekend reading: thoughts on Nora Lange’s new collection, revisiting Lena Dunham’s work, and more.
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/04/18/weekend-bites-nora-langes-latest-time-loop-fiction-revisiting-spacemen-3-and-more/
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“A Curated Gallery of Ghosts”: On Colm Toibin’s “The News From Dublin”
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“A Curated Gallery of Ghosts”: On Colm Toibin’s “The News From Dublin”
Colm TĂłibĂn has long been a master of the silences that hum beneath the surface of domestic life, and his latest collection, The News from Dublin, finds him operating at the peak of his understated…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/04/16/a-curated-gallery-of-ghosts-on-colm-toibins-the-news-from-dublin/
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An LA Vampire Detour: On Todd Grimson’s “Stainless”
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An LA Vampire Detour: On Todd Grimson’s “Stainless”
Until earlier this year, the only novel I’d read by the late Todd Grimson was Brand New Cherry Flavor. That book was an absolute headrush, one part bizarre tale of the supernatural, one part cuttin…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/04/15/an-la-vampire-detour-on-todd-grimsons-stainless/
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Sunday Stories: “A Midnight Trip to Matamoros”
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Sunday Stories: “A Midnight Trip to Matamoros”
A Midnight Trip to Matamorosby Elliott Turner You turned on the local Fox station for a weather update as you put your espresso maker on the stove. You forgot to turn off the television or change c…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/04/12/sunday-stories-a-midnight-trip-to-matamoros/
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We’d Like to Recommend Some April 2026 Books
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We’d Like to Recommend Some April 2026 Books
Hello, friends. Are you looking for some book recommendations for this month? Because we have some of those. We’ve got novels, we’ve got nonfiction, we’ve got poetry. Dig in!
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/04/11/wed-like-to-recommend-some-april-2026-books/
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"Making comics, for me, wasn’t a pastime. It was a religious calling."
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How Art School Is A Scam (And Also Totally Necessary)
How Art School Is A Scam (And Also Totally Necessary)by Dave Baker When I graduated high school I was a bit lost. Shocking, I know. I didn’t know what direction to take my life other than to go to …
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/04/09/how-art-school-is-a-scam-and-also-totally-necessary/
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Scenes From Portland Life: On Willy Vlautin’s “The Left and the Lucky”
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Scenes From Portland Life: On Willy Vlautin’s “The Left and the Lucky”
Anytime I crack open a fresh Willy Vlautin novel, I brace myself to flip through a rolodex of misfortune. Most reviews of his work dutifully hit the same set of keywords to describe his worlds: dow…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/04/08/scenes-from-portland-life-on-willy-vlautins-the-left-and-the-lucky/
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Presenting the Cover of Mathieu Bablet’s Graphic Novel “Silent Jenny”
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Presenting the Cover of Mathieu Bablet’s Graphic Novel “Silent Jenny”
In a 2019 review of Mathiew Bablet’s graphic novel Shangri-La, Augie De Blieck Jr. had plenty of great things to say about the book. “It’s beautifully drawn with a very cinematic eye,&#…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/04/06/presenting-the-cover-of-mathieu-bablets-graphic-novel-silent-jenny/
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I interviewed the incomparable poet Elizabeth Hazen
@vol1brooklyn.bsky.social
on what’s it like to write through memories you’re stuck with… How do you write through memories you’re stuck with???
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The Sky is an Illusion, After All: A Conversation with Elizabeth Hazen
In her third poetry collection The Sky Will Hold, poet Elizabeth Hazen reexamines the gap between youthful dreams and middle-aged reality, exploring what it means to belong: to a family, a communit…
https://www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/04/03/the-sky-is-an-illusion-after-all-a-conversation-with-elizabeth-hazen/
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The Sky is an Illusion, After All: A Conversation with Elizabeth Hazen
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The Sky is an Illusion, After All: A Conversation with Elizabeth Hazen
In her third poetry collection The Sky Will Hold, poet Elizabeth Hazen reexamines the gap between youthful dreams and middle-aged reality, exploring what it means to belong: to a family, a communit…
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"Their work is prenatal with meaning and subtext. That’s something that makes them worthy of critical analysis. You want to write about these films because they are positively heaving with symbolism."
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Chris Kelso on “Possession” as Muse
I’ve known Chris Kelso for a while now, and we’ve discussed everything from horror fiction to the ups and downs of the Scottish Premier League. This time out, our conversation was about…
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Afternoon Bites: Constance Debré’s Latest, Sara Levine on Writing, William Lessard on Poetry, and More
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Afternoon Bites: Constance Debré’s Latest, Sara Levine on Writing, William Lessard on Poetry, and More
In our afternoon reading: thoughts on Constance Debré’s new book, an interview with Sara Levine, and more.
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"The flesh and fabric fought against each other, and my hands hurt, by the time I pulled it into place."
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Sunday Stories: “Three Articles of Clothing I Decided to Keep”
Three Articles of Clothing I Decided to Keepby Meghan Lamb Full-Length Binder I bought this on a bad day, on a crowded train. I was pushed up against a steel pole, and shifting in pair of pointed h…
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