BOMB 112/Summer 2010
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Pulitzer Prize–winning author Richard Ford, one of the true giants of contemporary American literature and a master of of the short story form, talks to Vietnamese-Australian author Nam Le.
The Portuguese novelist, critic, and translator passed away June 18th, 2010. Here’s an interview he did with Katherine Vaz in the summer of 2001.
Writer and former New Yorker staff writer Suzannah Lessard interviewed by novelist Patrick McGrath in the BOMBLive! Artists & Curators’ Series at The New Museum for Contemporary Art, Fall 2002.
Tom Healy, veteran of New York’s art scene, lecturer and activist, is garnering praise for his first book of poetry. Writer Carol Muske-Dukes speaks with Healy about growing up on a farm, about painting, pain, and the making of unsentimental poems.
This BOMBLive! podcast on colonialism’s legacy between Nigerian novelist Chris Abani and Colm Tóibín was recorded at KGB Bar in May of 2006, part of the 2006 PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature.
Listen to a BOMBLive! Novelist Peter Carey has a conversation with poet Robert Polito in which they discuss Ned Kelly, Australian history, and Carey’s book, True History of the Kelly Gang, at The New School in the fall of 2001.
Listen to a BOMBLive! Rick Moody has an informal conversation with Darcey Steinke in which they discuss writing with feeling, god, and Moody’s book, Demonology, at The New School in the fall of 2001.
Tan Lin is interested in non-print forms of reading—potted plants, traffic lights, spoken words, strip malls, WD50—and approaches the book as a repository of dispersed ambient textuality.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Harvey Shapiro, one of New York’s major 20th-Century literary figures, is a poet and former editor of the New York Times Book Review. Here he reveals why a New York poet constantly works with found material.
WEB EXCLUSIVE When sound installation artist Margaret de Wys was diagnosed with breast cancer, she left all she had established to be healed by a shaman in the Ecuadorian jungle … and it worked. Her new book, Black Smoke, describes how.
En Español Francisco Suniaga y Federico Vegas, dos destacados novelistas venezolanos, hablan de los personajes trágicos y legendarios de la historia venezolana que habitan sus ficciones.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Francisco Suniaga and Federico Vegas, two of Venezuela’s most celebrated novelists, discuss those tragic and legendary characters of Venezuela’s history inhabiting their fiction. Also available in Spanish.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Shortlisted for a National Book Award for her poetry book Or To Begin Again, Ann Lauterbach discusses the function of the undead in her work and explains the art of the “imagined community.”
WEB EXCLUSIVE Read “The Forecast,” an excerpt from The Real Illusion: Twenty-One Stories by Simon Lane, illustrated by Tunga.
Listen to a BOMBLive! Polito on his recent Hollywood & God, which stands astride American spirituality and celebrity culture, with Trinidad, who wrote The Late Show under the sway of movies, cosmetics, and the NY School.
Watch a BOMBLive! Poet and translator Peter Cole talks with fellow MacArthur recipient Edward Hirsch, filmed at the Brooklyn Public Library.
WEB EXCLUSIVE In this epistolary exchange, novelists Nathan Englander and Rivka Galchen discuss the art of writing, pop culture, the Argentina of the Dirty Wars, the Jewish Diaspora, and the imagination.
Watch a BOMBLive! Jonathan Lethem’s new book, Chronic City, is out now! Watch his q&a with Betsy Sussler. Co-produced by the Cleveland Institute of Art.
Watch a BOMBLive! Englander and Galchen continue their conversation from BOMB’s web-exclusive interview, discussing pop culture, the Jewish Diaspora, and the imagination at the Brooklyn Public Library.
WEB EXCLUSIVE! Weeks before the end of Simic’s Laureate run, he and fellow poet Tomaž Šalamun caught up with each other over the phone. Read their exchange now!
BOMB and Park Lit joined forces on July 17, 2008 for a reading in NYC’s Tompkins Square Park. Listen to audio clips of readings by literary contributors to our Summer 2008 issue, BOMB 104.
WEB EXCLUSIVE! A National Book Award finalist for his most recent novel The Lazarus Project, Sarajevo-born, Chicago-based writer Aleksandar Hemon mines the condition of living in exile and of being grotesquely pinned between past and present.
Watch a BOMBLive! Authors Honor Moore and Victoria Redel discuss their recent books, The Bishop’s Daughter, a memoir, and The Border of Truth, a novel. Filmed before an audience at Housing Works Bookstore in New York City.
Part 2 of 2! Musician turned musicologist Ned Sublette unravels the histories and sounds that shaped New Orleans, our most “American” city. Click here to read Part 1 of the interview!
Part 1 of 2! Musician turned musicologist Ned Sublette unravels the histories and sounds that shaped New Orleans, our most “American” city. Out now: The World that Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square.
Listen to audio clips of readings from BOMB’s 100th Issue Reading on August 1, 2007 at Park Lit in Tompkins Square Park, featuring literary contributors to our Summer 2007 issue, BOMB #100.