BOMB 118/Winter 2012
WEB EXCLUSIVE Poets Enzensberger and Smith discuss politically engaged writing and their fondness for flops.
WEB EXCLUSIVE In a BOMB Web Exclusive, Adam Fitzgerald talks to Ben Lerner about Leaving the Atocha Station, the acclaimed poet’s debut work of fiction.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Special for Work in Progress subscribers: Read an excerpt from Roberto Bolaño’s new collection of poetry, Tres, out from New Directions.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Deb Olin Unferth—whose story “Abandon Normal Instruments,” appears in First Proof—recently published a memoir chronicling her teenage adventures in revolutionary Central America. She spoke to writer Nathan C. Martin.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Adina Hoffman’s biography of Palestinian poet Taha Muhammad Ali is a compelling portrait of an artist. Hoffman spoke with fellow biographer Deborah Baker about issues of fact and the biographer’s immersion in her subject.
WEB EXCLUSIVE 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 painting, pain, and the making of unsentimental poems.
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 EXTRA Read “The Forecast,” an excerpt from The Real Illusion: Twenty-One Stories by Simon Lane, illustrated by Tunga.
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.
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of this audio interview: Robert Polito and David Trinidad in conversation at Columbia College’s Film Row Cinema, Chicago in April 2009.
Listen to a BOMBLive! This podcast features a conversation between poets Robert Polito and David Trinidad, recorded at Columbia College’s Film Row Cinema, Chicago, in April 2009.
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of this video interview: Peter Cole interviewed by Edward Hirsch at the Brooklyn Public Library in October 2008.
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of the video interview: Jonathan Lethem interviewed by Betsy Sussler at The Cleveland Institute of Art in October 2008.
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.
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.
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of the video interview: Honor Moore and Victoria Redel in conversation at Housing Works Bookstore in June 2008.
WEB EXCLUSIVE In Part 2 of this interview, 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!
WEB EXCLUSIVE Musician turned musicologist Ned Sublette unravels the histories and sounds that shaped New Orleans, our most “American” city. Part one of a two-part interview.
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.
Listen to audio clips of readings from BOMB’s All-Stars Reading on May 12, 2006 at The New School, featuring a literary line-up of contributors to our Spring 2006 “Living Legends” 25th Anniversary issue.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Gabriela Jauregui talks with Daniel Alarcón and Alex Espinoza, born in Lima and Tijuana, respectively, about how their daring recent novels cross the language barrier, the history/fiction divide, and Icarus’s fall.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Francisco Goldman’s new autobiographical novel, Say Her Name, is out now. He spoke with fellow novelist Silvana Paternostro in 2007.
Listen to a BOMBLive! This podcast features a conversation between authors A.M. Homes and Francine Prose, moderated by BOMB Editor-In-Chief Betsy Sussler, recorded at the Brooklyn Borough Hall Courtroom in the fall of 2007.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Read an interview of novelist Nathan Englander by novelist Rivka Galchen, filmed at Brooklyn Public Library’s Dweck Auditorium on September 30, 2007.
