Vol. 1 Brooklyn

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…

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A Bracing Short Story Collection: On Alfred Corn’s “Hosts” Alfred Corn, the esteemed poet and man of letters, brings his considerable gifts to Hosts, a radiant collection of short stories. Across ten pieces, his unmistakable poetic sensibility and the imme…

"Corn’s stories are irresistibly propulsive; one finishes and you immediately want the next, as if devouring a luxurious box of Godiva chocolates." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/03/02/a...

Morning Bites: Vigdis Hjorth’s Fiction, Judy Blume’s Biography, Revisiting “Burden of Dreams,” and More In our morning reading: reviews of books by Vigdis Hjorth and Helen Garner, a look back at a landmark documentary, and more.

In our morning reading: reviews of books by Vigdis Hjorth and Helen Garner, a look back at a landmark documentary, and more.
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A Very Particular Nightmare: On Aoife Josie Clements’s “Persona” The more horror I read, the more I’m convinced of an inalienable truth: for a horror story to work, it has to reflect something that terrifies the author. That might be something as simple as an ev…

A VERY PARTICULAR NIGHTMARE

“A novel to keep you up nights … universally chilling … Persona goes to an unsettling place few of its peers can approach."

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Sunday Stories: “Pink” Pinkby Gareth Fitzgerald She awoke on her stomach, wearing only his boxers, and before she opened her eyes, Cassie felt there was something in his boxers.

"Pink, stained from blood, an egg, fell onto the bed." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/03/01/s...

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A Very Particular Nightmare: On Aoife Josie Clements’s “Persona” The more horror I read, the more I’m convinced of an inalienable truth: for a horror story to work, it has to reflect something that terrifies the author. That might be something as simple as an ev…

"This is a novel to keep you up nights, but not for the reasons you might expect." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/02/26/a...

Morning Bites: Iris Murdoch’s Poems, Remembering Michael Silverblatt, Maria BC on Music, and More In our morning reading: thoughts on Iris Murdoch’s poetry, an interview with Maria BC, and more.

In our morning reading: thoughts on Iris Murdoch’s poetry, an interview with Maria BC, and more.
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Fraught Connections: A Review of Mike Powell’s “New Paltz, New Paltz” Early in Mike Powell’s slender debut novel, New Paltz, New Paltz, the protagonist establishes his affinity for escalators. “That feeling of moving without moving,” he remarks, “Like how an angel migh…

"Powell presents us with a character who is genuinely trying (in his hyper-fixated mode) to figure it out..."
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Morning Bites: Revisiting The Raincoats, Toni Morrison’s Legacy, Stephen Graham Jones Talks Horror, and More In our morning reading: revisiting the lives of The Raincoats, an interview with Stephen Graham Jones, and more.

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Sunday Stories: “We’ve Got A Pill For That” We’ve Got A Pill For Thatby Mallory Smart I called my doctor because my brain kept lagging in the middle of conversations. Buffering like it has bad WiFi connection. She nodded and called it …

"The new pill gave me energy and focus but only for things that didn’t matter, like rearranging old Dropbox files and making presentations of old regrets." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/02/22/s...

Revisiting Pulp Comics History With a “Savage Tales of the 1980s” Excerpt This month, Fantagraphics is continuing their ongoing project of revisiting some of the more unpredictable corners of Marvel Comics’ archives with Lost Marvels No. 3: Savage Tales of the 1980…

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Morning Bites: Namwali Serpell on Toni Morrison, Luke O’Neil Fiction, T Kira Madden’s Novel, and More In our morning reading: Namwali Serpell on Toni Morrison, thoughts on a James Sallis collection, and more.

In our morning reading: Namwali Serpell on Toni Morrison, thoughts on a James Sallis collection, and more.
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More Questions than Answers in Christopher Beha’s “Why I Am not an Atheist” I don’t know why, as a secular Jew, I am fascinated with crises of faith, and with Catholicism in particular, but the topic is a lifelong preoccupation. In this light, I was eager to dive into Chri…

"To find his path to living, Beha focuses on epistemology—the theory of knowledge. To sharpen his focus, he explores the philosophical canon. His is a disciplined, intellectual pursuit." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/02/18/m...

Morning Bites: “Wuthering Heights” on Screen, Namwali Serpell on Toni Morrison, Revisiting Talk Talk, and More In our morning reading: onscreen adaptations of “Wuthering Heights,” a Talk Talk album turns 40, and more.

In our morning reading: onscreen adaptations of “Wuthering Heights,” a Talk Talk album turns 40, and more.
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Sunday Stories: “The Quiet Fire” The Quiet Fireby L.F. Graubard Eva left without a goodbye. That’s how the Narco Farm did it—people vanished between counts. One day you’re brushing your teeth together, next day her bunk’s stripped…

"I kept my opinions under the tongue. No sense lecturing a man with a funeral parlor on his CV about hypocrisy." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/02/15/s...

Notes on Darius Jones’s “Legend of e’Boi (The Hypervigilant Eye)” Darius Jones sits alone on stage minutes before tonight’s show at the Cunneen-Hackett Arts Center in Poughkeepsie, calmly detonating blasts from his alto saxophone, two-to-three second streaks boom…

"Jones keeps the burners on high coming down the home stretch. He repeats the main theme a dozen times, takes a momentary break, and repeats it 21 times, each building on the last. Or maybe it’s 13 and 22." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/02/12/n...

Six Ridiculous Questions: J.T. Price 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…

“What lasts? To whom and by what means are our deepest commitments made? And why and to what end? And may that end just be beauty? And if all of our pain serves our art does that mean it was for the best?”

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Six Ridiculous Questions: J.T. Price 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…

"I’m reminded, too, about all the discourse around slop, which mainly has to do with “A.I.” I know. But I’d argue there’s all kinds of language usage that constitutes slop. Even a few novels too." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/02/03/s...

Sunday Stories: “Flare” Flareby Madeline McFarland Just after the New Year, I left early in the morning from Brooklyn for my next Botox appointment. It had snowed in the soft, heavy way the night before, and the sun had j…

"I smiled at my shadowy reflection in the window above the long blue bench. I read a little of my library book, feeling indulgent, since I’d taken the morning off work." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/02/01/s...

Eagle-eyed viewers will catch a cameo from my dog in this new preview of my illustrations for the great GODS OF PEGANA!

A Preview of a New Edition of Lord Dunsany’s “The Gods of Pegana” In a 2009 essay on the works of pioneering writer Lord Dunsay, Jo Walton explained his significance to the world of uncanny fiction. “Lord Dunsany wasn’t writing fantasy, because what he was …

Happy to be publishing a preview of a new edition of a classic story by Lord Dunsany. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/01/28/a...

Krackle’s Last Movie: A Chat with Chelsea Sutton on Creating Creatures Through Found Footage Author Chelsea Sutton’s Krackle’s Last Movie, out now from Split/Lip Press, is one monster of a novella – a post-modern Prometheus, if you will (you don’t have to).  The book itself is a patch…

My latest interview for Volume One Brooklyn is with author Chelsea Sutton, whose novella “Krackle’s Last Movie” is a fast and fantastical read, pertinent to our times. Out now from Split Lip Press

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Krackle’s Last Movie: A Chat with Chelsea Sutton on Creating Creatures Through Found Footage Author Chelsea Sutton’s Krackle’s Last Movie, out now from Split/Lip Press, is one monster of a novella – a post-modern Prometheus, if you will (you don’t have to).  The book itself is a patch…

"Early on, I had a list of monster tropes I wanted to include. My Frankenstein creature, for instance, wasn’t the traditional one, but more like a Las Vegas showgirl." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/01/27/k...

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Horrible memories of seedy student London. By my OH.

Sunday Stories: “Nikita, Dave and David” Nikita, Dave and Davidby Wilson Neate I had undertaken employment in the menswear department at Fenwick’s in the Brent Cross Shopping Centre. My co-workers and I considered our positions there to b…

"The once enviable front garden lay entombed beneath an inexpertly poured concrete carpet." www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/01/25/s...

The Uncanny Histories of Vernon Lee A little context can go a long way, especially when it’s from knowledgeable guides. My first encounter with Vernon Lee’s uncanny fiction came when I read the collection The Virgin of the Seve…

We reviewed a Vernon Lee collection out now from @unnamedpress.bsky.social. www.vol1brooklyn.com/2026/01/23/t...