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…

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 @vol1brooklyn.bsky.social about how you can't go home again

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.…

"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." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/04/19/s...

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.

Weekend Bites: Nora Lange’s 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” Colm Tóibín 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…

“A Curated Gallery of Ghosts”: On Colm Toibin’s “The News From Dublin” www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/04/16/a...

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…

An LA Vampire Detour: On Todd Grimson’s “Stainless”
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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…

Sunday Stories: “A Midnight Trip to Matamoros”
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We’d Like to Recommend Some April 2026 Books
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"Making comics, for me, wasn’t a pastime. It was a religious calling." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/04/09/h...

Scenes From Portland Life: On Willy Vlautin’s “The Left and the Lucky”
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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,&#…

Presenting the Cover of Mathieu Bablet’s Graphic Novel “Silent Jenny”
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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…

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…

The Sky is an Illusion, After All: A Conversation with Elizabeth Hazen www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/04/03/t...

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…

"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." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/04/02/c...

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.

Afternoon Bites: Constance Debré’s Latest, Sara Levine on Writing, William Lessard on Poetry, and More
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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…

"The flesh and fabric fought against each other, and my hands hurt, by the time I pulled it into place." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/03/29/s...

Weekend Bites: Nancy Lemann Interviewed, NBCC Award Winners, Revisiting Robert Coover, and More
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Forget the Guidebook: A Review of Meghan Lamb’s “Mirror Translation” Weird shit can happen when you’re far from home. To be clear, similar phenomena can also be experienced in your own backyard; still, there’s a long tradition of vacationers and expatriates making b…

"This book is divided into three parts; you can read it as a story collection, but there’s a shared atmosphere throughout the book that lends itself well to the argument that this is actually an unconventionally-structured novel." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/03/25/f...

Sunday Stories: “The Warehouse Disaster” The Warehouse Disasterby Patrick W. Gallagher My Dear Sister, I admit this much: I should never have left my nephew, your son, alone in our family’s warehouse. That fact is not in dispute, by me le…

"You would have both recognized him and also not. You know the front door to our warehouse—our family’s biggest warehouse!—how it creaks." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/03/22/s...

No Self and Other but Only Oneness: A Review of Marc Vincenz’s “No More Animal Poems” www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/03/19/n...

Sunday Stories: “How Everything In This World Works” How Everything in This World Worksby Claire W. Zhang I’m a dealer now. From $10 disposable e-cigs to $12,000 Hermès handbags, I deal everything. I’m technically a broker-dealer – a piece of informa…

"She gave me a one-hundred-dollar bill that night. Somehow, I did not question the authenticity of the bill at the time and was glad it turned out to be real." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/03/15/s...

Epigraph Reveal: Candice Wuehle’s “Ultranatural” On April 14, the University of Iowa Press is set to publish Candice Wuehle’s novel Ultranatural. Today, we’re pleased to share the book’s epigraph, which combines two unlikely tex…

Epigraph Reveal: Candice Wuehle's "Ultranatural" www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/03/13/e...

Jeff Jackson on the Evolution of Julien Calendar I’ve known writer Jeff Jackson for quite a while now, and one of the pleasures of that has been seeing his creative endeavors expand. To wit: the work that he and his collaborators in the ban…

Jeff Jackson on the Evolution of Julien Calendar www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/03/12/j...

“Something Is Being Colonized Out Here”: An Interview With Nick Mamatas To read a Nick Mamatas novel is to encounter literary references and pulp storytelling smashed headlong into one another, then recombined in eminently compelling ways. His latest book is the novel …

"...I’ve always been interested in experimental/innovative literature, and I like genre literature best when it does something that violates typical narratives." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/03/10/s...

The Return of “Weird Tales” — In Graphic Novel Form If you’ve ever enmeshed yourself in the history of uncanny fiction, you’re probably familiar with the name Weird Tales. This magazine has a special place in the annals of fantasy and ho…

The Return of "Weird Tales" — In Graphic Novel Form www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/03/11/t...

Morning Bites: Shabaka Returns, Sarah Sherman on Comedy, Revisiting Abel Ferrera, and More In our morning reading: reviews of albums by Shabaka and Bill Frisell, an interview with Sarah Sherman, and more.

Morning Bites: Shabaka Returns, Sarah Sherman on Comedy, Revisiting Abel Ferrera, and More www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/03/10/m...

Six Ridiculous Questions: Erika Swyler The guiding principle of Six Ridiculous Questions is that life is filled with ridiculousness. And questions. That only by giving in to these truths may we hope to slip the surly bonds of reality an…

"We do have morning yoga. Zebra prison is ironically, pretty humane. Well, for me especially, because the guards are on the take." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/03/09/s...

Sunday Stories: “Welcome to Greenville” Welcome to Greenvilleby Lisa Marie Zapata I had the choice between a booty call or a literary salon. Carnal desire being a much more urgent calling than lively debate with university intelligesia, …

"I faced the full length mirror propped up against the closet door. I wore a black spandex mini dress. I turned and looked at myself from every angle. I fluffed my hair and made sure there was no lipstick on my teeth." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/03/08/s...

A Look Inside the Folio Society’s New Edition of “Masters of the Air” When Donald L. Miller’s Masters of the Air: How the Bomber Boys Broke Down the Nazi War Machine was first published, it was to plenty of critical acclaim. Writing in the New York Times, Willi…

A Look Inside the Folio Society’s New Edition of “Masters of the Air”
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Recommended Books: March 2026 Hello, it’s March, and we’re in Baltimore for AWP. But just because we’re in the city that brought us Double Dagger and Lungfish doesn’t mean we’re not keeping an eye …

Recommended Books: March 2026
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A Look Inside Jonathan Djob Nkondo’s “Wandering” You might recognize Jonathan Djob Nkondo’s name from his comics work; you might also know him from his work on the acclaimed animated series Scavengers Reign. In 2020, SOLRAD’s Daniel E…

A Look Inside Jonathan Djob Nkondo’s “Wandering” www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/03/04/a...