Better late than never. Happy post-President’s Day.

TUESDAY

Dustin Wong’s new album Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads is out today from Thrill Jockey Records. To amp up the release, he’s been harvesting submissions of listeners who’ve recorded descriptions of their dreams and transformed them into sonic experiments that he’ll be releasing on his blog throughout the week. He will also play a release show for the new album this Friday in Brooklyn.

WEDNESDAY

In celebration of New York Review Books’s new translation of Gregor von Rezzori’s An Ermine in Czernopol, The Center for Fiction is hosting a reading with renowned authors Deborah Eisenberg and Wallace Shawn. RSVP to snag a spot before it’s too late. 17 E. 47th Street (between Fifth and Madison).

THURSDAY

Contemporary poets Anne Waldman and Lee Ann Brown will be reading from old, new, and in process works at Dia:Chelsea tonight at 6:30pm. Readings take place at on 535 West 22nd Street, 5th Floor. $6 general admission; $3 Dia members, students, and seniors.

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FRIDAY

Shlohmo’s biggest jam, Teeth, sounds like someone tightening the bolts on your head. It’s a stressful but kind of great experience. And Groundislava —that’s “ground-is-lava,” not something Slavic—sounds like what would happen if video games climb out of that flat, sad, carcinogenic blue and dance, finally alive, still zapped with electricity. Together they’re playing at Cameo Gallery.

SATURDAY

Saturday’s the last day to see Bill Jensen at the Cheim & Read gallery. To get your bearings: “While looking at the Milky Way if you can feel a distant star as part of your body just like your elbow, and your elbow as part of the distant stars, you have begun to be enlightened. I have had those moments” said Bill Jensen.

SUNDAY

Forty Guns, a real whip-cracking, gun-slinging old-timey Western starring Barbara Stanwyck is playing at the Museum of the Moving Image.

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Biophilie, logophile, nyctophile, fiddlephile . . . We’ve got something for every kind of lover this week.

MONDAY

Jumpstart your Valentine’s Day the subversive way, with Ben Marcus, Martha Southgate, Kate Zambreno, Chiara Barzini, & Will Snider. They’re marking the occasion with “Unconventional Love,” a night of novels and stories that promise to unfold into the fantastical and hyper-real: romantic obsession, wartime flings, toxic relationships, misguided communication—all your favorites are coming together at the Franklin Park Bar and Beer Garden.

TUESDAY

It’s more tragedy than romance, but you don’t want to miss Paula Vogel’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, How I Learned to Drive, which opens at Second Stage Theater this week. It’s the first time the play has made its way back to the New York City stage since its world premier fifteen years ago.

WEDNESDAY

Cave Canem co-founder Toi Derricotte heads to the New School to read from her new collection, The Undertaker’s Daughter. The reading will be followed by a Q&A, book-signing, and reception, and on February 18th, Derricotte will lead an open Master Class on poetry and prose.

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Weed out the white noise and tune in for the weekend’s fresh lineup.

FRIDAY

LIMITED TIME ONLY, the creative collaborative that includes some of BOMB’s own brainchildren, is scheming a night of love letters and spiked tea. It’s poised to be an occasion fit for the young, talented, and forlorn hearts that want the “February 14” square on calendars to get the same treatment as the 13th floor in sky risers. The cocktail spout will open at 7pm and won’t close until 9pm.

SATURDAY

Ever since 2010, when Kathryn Bigelow won the Oscar for best director, Barnard has used its Athena Film Festival to keep up the momentum by promoting and celebrating female leadership in cinema. Workshops, screenings, and awards are going on all weekend. Check their page for more details on the three days of thirty films.

SUNDAY

James Blake, The Chain, and Airhead are playing at le poisson rouge from 9pm into the wee hours. Frontliner James Blake has the name and voice of someone destined for the mainstream tightrope, but the sincerity in his song-bird warbling says he won’t fall for spinning dollar signs. If you haven’t heard his post-dubstep / gospel mashups, now’s the time.

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There’s a lot to believe in this week. Just trust us.

MONDAY

BOMB is celebrating Valentine’s Day early with its Powerhouse Reading tonight at 7PM. Come check out the readings from Tina Chang, Alexander Chee, Robin Beth Schaer, and Myla Goldberg, and a performance by Alina Simone. In addition, it will be Paul Morris’s last official night with the staff, so come by and join us in draining the Gatorade cooler on coach. The reading will be held at the Powerhouse Arena on 37 Main Street in DUMBO from 7–9PM.

TUESDAY

BAM Café, that forum of all things cultural and spiritual, hosts philosophers Cornel West and Simon Critchley for a night of deep thought and even deeper conversation. Held in honor of Critchley’s just-published The Faith of the Faithless, the philosophy will be followed by a book-signing.

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Let’s act like real heartbroken artists and drown our sorrows in readings and exhibitions. They will never leave you. Promise. <3.

FRIDAY

Young Jean Lee’s latest show, UNTITLED FEMINIST SHOW, is an exploration of identity that substitutes conversation for expressive movement. She’s an artist who thrives on making the kind of thing she doesn’t want to do worth seeing. See the show to see how she dogs feminism into a show distinctively her own. The show plays at the Baryshnikov Arts Center in the Jerome Robbins Theater on 450 West 37th St. at 8:00pm. Pre-game by reading a BOMB interview with Lee conducted while she was mid-production in her last show, We’re All Going to Die.

SATURDAY

The Marlborough Chelsea will present “Blind Cut,” a group exhibition curated by Jonah Freeman and Vera Neykov until February 18. The collection is presented under the thematic banner of fiction or deception and includes work spanning several generations, reaching although way back to Dada. The gallery is located on 545 West 25th Street and is open Tuesday–Saturday from 10:00–5:30PM.

SUNDAY

A book party will be held at the Bowery Poetry Club to celebrate Christopher Funkhouser’s new book, New Directions in Digital Poetry on Febrary 5 from 2PM and on. The book documents the mechanics of new digital poetry and offers a window into the future of those short things with pretty words.

MONDAY

BOMB’s celebrating Valentine’s Day early with its Powerhouse Reading at 7PM. Come check out the readings from Tina Chang, Alexander Chee, Robin Beth Schaer, and Myla Goldberg with a performance by Alina Simone. In addition, it will be Paul Morris’s last official night with staff, so come by and join us in draining the Gatorade cooler on coach. The reading will be held at the powerhouse Arena on 37 Main Street in DUMBO, Brooklyn from 7–9PM. Complimentary drinks!

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Collaboration is the theme of the week: powerhouses from all walks of art join together for a dazzling array of readings, performances, films, celebrations and reading-performance-filmic-celebrations.

MONDAY

Poets Mark Strand and Susan Stewart join forces to read and celebrate their new collections at 92y Tribeca’s uptown arena. Need even more incentive to go? John Koethe and Maureen McLane will be introducing the extraordinary pair.

TUESDAY

WNYC and Arts Brookfield are presenting four films by Bill Morrison this week. The first, “The Miners’ Hymns,” is a dark homage to English mining culture, and it features archival footage and a live accompaniment by Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson and the Wordless Music Orchestra.

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Doris Day might be alive, but she probably won’t factor into your weekend. But here are some things that will—some you might have forgotten about, and some you haven’t had the chance to remember.

FRIDAY

Nearly every week, NYU’s public reading series opens its doors to whoever for a chance to listen to some of the most innovative, current voices in poetry and fiction. Starting at five Joshua Beckman will be reading from his new poetry collection Take It. The reading will be held at the Lillian Vernon Creative Writers House on 58 West 10th Street, between 5th and 6th Avenues.

SATURDAY

Art Hack Day is a celebration of artists and hackers—especially those who are both. Although the events at 319 Scholes kick off earlier in the week for collaborators and online audiences (on what? We don’t know), the doors only open to the public on Saturday for a closing exhibition, performances, and a blowout party.

SUNDAY

It’s nice just to be reminded once in a while of the KGB’s Sunday Night Fiction, although many of you probably don’t need reminding. This week Rebecca Gee, Lucinda Holt, Martha Qualben and Rachael Nevins will be presenting. 7:00 pm–9:00 pm. As usual.

MONDAY

The MoMA ps1 is exhibiting the latest work of Clifford Owens. Over twelve different composers submitted scores that Owens supplemented with video photographs and objects, in addition to live performances that he will present sporadically over the course of the show. If you can’t make it this week, don’t worry. The show runs until March 12, while the next live piece will take place Saturday, February 11, at 3:00 pm.

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This weekend shows you how to make an entrance, an exit, and an improvised opus.

FRIDAY

To kick off the Fall 2011 season of public art, Friends of the High Line announced a collaboration with Texas-based artist Charles Mary Kubricht. Since then, Alive-ness has quite literally dazzled the park storage containers at the Hudson Yards end of the High Line; inspired by “dazzle,” a type of military camouflage used during World War I, Aliveness explores modes of perception and aesthetics. It’s the perfect time of year to burst out of January torpor and visit this remarkable meditation on visibility.

SATURDAY

If you think a retirement party isn’t your cup of tea on a Saturday night . . . think again. Maurizio Cattelan is saying farewell to art-making, and to mark the end of his career he’s hosting a “seven-hour jog around life’s Central Park of pleasures, desires, and regrets.” The Last Word begins at 6:00 PM, and will feature more than 30 artists, philosophers, writers, filmmakers, musicians (etc, etc, etc). Admission is pay what you wish. To pre-game, read through BOMB’s Web Exclusive interview between Cattelan and Michèle Gerber-Klein.

SUNDAY

Zebulon Cafe is starting the night early and ending it late with a Sunday double-header: Butch Morris, the progenitor of Conduction (a structured free improvisation), will start composing-performing at 4:30. Then, the Vermont-based MV & EE will bring their wild celestial experiments to the stage. Don’t miss the boat.

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Stave off boredom with the eclectic. This is a weekend that contains multitudes.

FRIDAY

We Need to Talk About Kevin, the screen adaption of Lionel Shriver’s novel of the same name, stars Tilda Swinton as a mother who is told repeatedly to be more patient and understanding with her precocious serial killer son. The movie debuts tonight with post-screening Q&A’s with Ezra Miller (who plays Kevin) at both the Angelika following the 7:30 showing and Lincoln Plaza Cinema following the 6:35 showing. If you can’t make it tonight, the event will repeat itself—same times, same place—tomorrow.

SATURDAY

It’s hard to find a linking strand in Bill Jensen’s paintings, but I dare you to try. His work pushes the range of abstraction—from vioent, to symbolic, to playful. Cheim & Read will be exhibiting his work until February 18.

SUNDAY

Yvonne Meier presents Mad Heidi, her exploration and internal combustion of Swiss stereotypes that she remembers with both nostalgia and healthy irreverence. The performance begins at 7:30 and follows Ishmael Houston-Jones’ Knife/Tape/Rope as part of the American Realness Festival at Abrons Arts Center. Be aware: this performance contains nudity and soaring feats of broom flight.

MONDAY

Beginning at the crack of 10:30 at the Howard Gilman Opera House, keynote speaker Dennis M. Walcott, chancellor of the New York City Department of Education will give tribute to the late social leader along with musical guests Toshi Reagon and BIGLovely and The Institutional Radio Choir C.O.G.I.C. of Brooklyn. Following the event, there will be a free showing of The Black Power Mixtape 1967—1975, featuring newly uncovered and re-polished interviews with leaders of the Black Power Movement.

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This week pays homage to the cheap, the rejected, and the closing-down. To start things off right, you’ll want to take advantage of that $4 pint at the Franklin Park Reading Series tonight.

MONDAY

The Franklin Park Reading Series hosts a night of $4 pints and free story-reading by some of our favorite short-fiction moguls: Sam Lipsyte (The Ask, Venus Drive), Gary Lutz (I Looked Alive, Divorcer), and youngsters Catherine Lacey, Mitch Levenberg, and Christine Vines. Check out Jerred North’s bit for more information.

TUESDAY

Wim Wenders’ Pina, a breathtaking documentary dance film in 3-D, shows at BAM and the IFC center this week. Writes BOMBlog’s Craig Hubert, “Ostensibly about the work of recently deceased choreographer Pina Bausch, the film is really about mourning and celebrating life though artistic practice.”

WEDNESDAY

Head over to the Bowery Poetry Club to catch the opening of the Elizabeth Murray Art Wall’s latest exhibit, CATCH AS CATCH CAN. A collaboration between old friends Jene Highstein and Lawrence Weiner, CATCH promises to be a wild mix of the formal and the improvised.

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We can only hope that the first BOMB Alert of 2012 is representative of the year to come; this weekend brings a trifecta of awesome events that span poetry and performance, art and physics, rock & roll & classical quartets.

FRIDAY

Already feel like a 2012 outcast, outsider, or burnout? Find and toast your fellow soul-searchers at the fourth annual Charles Bukowski Memorial Reading at the Cornelia Street Cafe. Featured readers include Kat Georges, Peter Carlaftes and Ron Wallace, but anyone is welcome to bring and read a favorite Bukowski poem or an original poem inspired by Bukowski.

SATURDAY

Sculptor Sarah Sze exhibits, for the first time, her works on paper in Infinite Line, a new exhibition at the Asia Society. Sze’s latest work messes with vanishing-point perspective, gravity, and traditional Chinese scroll paintings.

SUNDAY

Were you inspired by Nick Hallett’s mixed-up ponderings about Rolip Glashley? Then continue the mashup spirit at this concert collaboration between the Calder Quartet and party-rocker Andrew W.K. The evening at Le Poisson Rouge will also feature music by the likes of Bach and Philip Glass.

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A jelly doughnut with your eggnog? Pippi Longstocking in your stocking? A Shakespeare-quoting dreidel? Get into the spirit of things with this funky-festive mashup of readings, raves, and benefits.

FRIDAY

The Bowery Poetry Club is hosting “The Repubescence of Jason Evans,” a night of awkward comedy, song, and dance to benefit GEMS (Girls Educational & Mentoring Services).

Robert Ashley’s Vidas Perfectas, a new Spanish-language production of his 1983 Perfect Lives (1983), will premiere at Irondale Theater in Brooklyn. Directed by Alex Waterman, the piece represents all seven of the opera’s episodes as full-stage and television pieces. Check out Waterman’s conversation with Ashley, forthcoming in BOMB 118, and Nick Hallett’s musings on his music!

Nick Cave is opening Let’s C, a performative exhibit, at The Fabric Workshop and Museum. You won’t want to miss the chorus performances featuring many Soundsuit-clad folk navigating his bamboo forest.

SATURDAY

Morgan O’Kane and the Veveritse Brass Band take to the mainstage at 92Y Tribeca for a Saturday night of banjo-shredding, brass bell-banging jubilation. The best part? You won’t know whether you’re in Appalachia or Serbia.

Soundsmith Oneohtrix Point Never hits MoMA’s PopRally with Reliquary House, an installation he generated collaboratively with Nate Boyce. According to MoMA, “OPN and Boyce re-imagine the canon of modernist sculpture through hallucinatory reconstructions of works.” We’re convinced.

SUNDAY

We saved the best for last: You’re invited to our holiday party! Join BOMB Magazine for a reading at the legendary KGB Bar’s Sunday Night Fiction Series, curated by Suzanne Dottino and featuring BOMB Issue 118 contributors Paul La Farge, Sean Madigan Hoen, and Kirsten Kaschock. Come for the literature and then stay for the drinks and mingling with the BOMB staff; we’re counting down the minutes.

Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jhumpa Lahiri will read at Book Court as part of a series to benefit Brooklyn’s Waldorf School’s library. A discussion and book-signing are to follow.

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This week, get your independent-bookstore on, attend a legendary film screening, and of course, read a BOMB interview!

FRIDAY

Rick Moody, Eliot Weinberger and many more celebrate the release of Conjuctions at Book Court

Since we posted Trisha Brown interview with Yvonne Rainer earlier this week, it’s time to check out her show at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.!

SATURDAY

Irving Sandler interviews Marylyn Dintenfass at CUE Art Foundation.

Electric Midwife brings their show back to the Chocolate Factory this weekend. There are multiple viewings, but limited seats, so get there early!

SUNDAY

Before it closes, check out the Tom Sachs exhibition at Sperone-Westwater. Don’t forget to read his conversation with John Kessler before you go!

The Day He Arrives is the last film screening of the Korean Cinema Now series at Museum of the Moving Image, and is reviewed in BOMB Winter 2011— basically, a can’t-miss event.

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This week is a celebration of the massive, the epic, and the extreme. Don’t miss out on any of these supernova events as November draws to a close.

MONDAY

Monday just got better! Celebrate the launch of new independent ebookstore Emily Books with Eileen Myles.

TUESDAY

Paul Auster and Don DeLillo discuss their submissions to Granta 117: Horror this Tuesday. Check out the info here.

On the other side of Union Square, painter Francesco Clemente gets interviewed by Salman Rushdie at Strand.

WEDNESDAY

Lucky us! Colson Whitehead takes a break from fighting literary zombies and visits St. Joseph’s College.

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BOMB’s after-party for the 62nd Annual National Book Awards was a hit for literary and art folks alike, and we have the pictures to prove it.

Congratulations to this year’s winners and nominees, and thanks to everyone who joined us November 17 for the after-party for the 62nd Annual National Book Awards at Cipriani in lower Manhattan, co-presented by BOMB Magazine. We had a blast celebrating all the nominees and winners with drinks and hors d’oeuvres, and hope you did too. We were happy that so many people took advantage of the free books and magazines—and especially thrilled to see so many literary and arts folks shaking it on the dance floor to the stylings of DJ Rabbi Darkside. A great evening all around, thanks for making it so much fun.

Until next year, keep reading…

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Sure, Thanksgiving is around the corner—but this week, we’re really excited about Eleanor Friedberger, Roberto Bolaño animation, and impromptu concerts!

MONDAY

Tonight, occupy Shea Stadium! Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Titus Andronicus an the So So Glos play a last-minute benefit for the National Lawyer’s Guild. Get the information here.

TUESDAY

Oscar Hijuelos reads from his novel Thoughts without Cigarettes at The National Arts Club.

WEDNESDAY

The Cherry Orchard written by Anton Chekhov is now playing. Read our epic interview with cast member John Turturro before you go!

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We’ve got a little bit of everything for you this week, starting with a Monday night of literature’s hottest and coolest names. You can’t miss these events no matter how hard you try; BOMB will be hitting you with podcasts and interviews all week long.

FRIDAY

We’ve known Jesmyn Ward is deserving since 2008–– now so does everyone else! Celebrate the National Book Award she received by listening to the podcast she recorded for BOMBlog.

Edwidge Danticat will read at the 2011 Langston Hughes Festival, which is taking place at City College. Danticat is also being honored with the 2011 Langston Hughes Medal and a panel discussion, “Haiti in the Age of Danticat.”

SATURDAY

Rolip Glashley gets cooking! Confused? Find out what we mean here and then head over to the Kitchen.

Rashaad Newsome continues his first solo exhibition at the Marlborough Gallery this weekend. The exhibition, entitled Herald, features Newsome’s collages, videos and installations through December 3rd.

SUNDAY

This Sunday, take a walk in the park. Alison Saar’s new exhibition, Seasons has opened in Madison Square Park.

The Bowery Poetry club is hosting A BOWERY BOOKS BOOK PARTY, an evening led by poet Steve Dalachinsky, bassist Albey Balogian, and erotic fiction writer Tsaurah. What’s not to love?

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Don’t let the 4:45 sunsets get you down this week—these tributes, performances, and discussions are bound to brighten your lengthening nights.

FRIDAY

You are HERE. At least you should be! Braden King has his new film screening at the Cinema Arts Festival in Houston.

We won’t have to tell you twice to check out Aaron Gilbert, Becca Albee, LaToya Ruby Frazier and Elia Alba’s show at Nurture Art. The artists title their show Re-telling, and explore what happens to landscapes, bodies, and narratives during this process.

SATURDAY

If you haven’t seen Sanford Biggers’s show at the Brooklyn museum (or even if you have), attending his talk will help make the Sweet Funk exhibition music to your ears.

Rainer Ganahl offers us a Credit Crunch Meal and it tastes good. Check out his performance for the opening of Margaret Lee’s show at Jack Hanley Gallery.

SUNDAY

Theresa Rebeck’s new comedy Seminar opens next week. Have you read her in conversation with Evangeline Morphos? Check it out before you go, here.

Composer Christian Wolff commemorates his album, Stones of 1969, with a performance presented by Hunter College.

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It may have been Halloween earlier this week, but that’s not why we’re seeing stars. Don’t miss some of our favorites: Joan Didion, Taylor Mead, Eileen Myles and Maurizio Cattelan.

FRIDAY

It’s safe to say that the Maurizio Cattelan retrospective at the Guggenheim won’t be invoking any feelings of security. Before you go, let BOMB comfort you with Michèle Gerber Klein’s web-exclusive conversation with the artist here.

Tom Sachs’s new show opens at Sperone Westwater. His interview with John Kessler might be a little more dated than the exhibition’s paintings and sculptures, but it’s definitely still awesome. Read on!

SATURDAY

Eileen Myles reads from the upcoming release, The Air We Breathe: Artists And Poets Reflect On Marriage Equality. Head over to the White Columns for this free event.

Danspace Project’s Choreographic Center Without Walls event continues this Saturday, with “Mutual Seductions,” a discussion of the relationship between visual art and choreography. Artist Mika Rottenberg attends.

SUNDAY

We’re in the perfect mental state for George Condo paintings. The show is up at Skarstedt Gallery.

Last day of the week, last chance to check out the Editions Artist’s Book Fair! Head over to browse (and buy) thousands of great prints. Some of the big names include Luc Tuymans, Peter Saul, and Fred Tomaselli but there’s lots more to see at this annual book fair in the former Dia building.

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New Nan Goldin, Page Turner Fest and a fantastic opening at Showroom gallery. What more could you ask for this weekend?

FRIDAY

A new Nan Goldin show is being featured at Matthew Marks, titled Scopophilia, which means, “the love of looking.” When it comes to Nan Goldin, who doesn’t love to look?

SATURDAY

Junot Diaz, Amitav Ghosh, Teju Cole, Hisham Matar, Jessica Hagedorn, Wangechi Mutu and more join together to enjoy a Korean Taco Truck at the Page Turner festival this Saturday. Oh, and also to celebrate the third annual Asian-American literary festival.

“Mary Poppins is a Junkie” opens at Showroom. We’re not really into shooting up, but when it comes to great art, we’re addicted.

SUNDAY

It’s BAM’s 150th birthday! Sufjan Stevens has written an original score with Raymond Raposa for Kaleo La Belle’s documentary, Beyond This Place, drawing on the themes of both commemoration and moving on.

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Poetry is greedy for attention this week: Philip Levine makes his way to Queens, the Fowler Arts Collective has beer in the fridge, and Poets Forum is revving up for their annual bonanza. But don’t let the poets have all the fun—there’s plenty of other action to be had before Doomsday.

FRIDAY

BOMB helps you kick off the weekend with a smorgasbord of cross-genre happenings. We’re co-hosting the Black Lake record release party with Invisible-Exports at The Wooly. The night will feature video screenings, performances, and great music—RSVP now!

We’re also hosting a reading at The Fowler Arts Collective in Greenpoint. Organized by our own Luke Degnan, the evening will include the reading of poetry and short fiction by Degnan, B.C. Edwards, Sarah Gerard, and Paul Legault. The reading is taking place in conjunction with the art show The Pinch, in which three local artists share their attempts to articulate something about the value of art in a time of economic hardship. Hear some words. See some art. Taste some ice cold beer.

BOMB’s senior editor Mónica de la Torre joins poets Richard Craft and Peter Gizzi in conversation about the late Robert Seydel and the launch of his The Book of Ruth. The book is a debut work that cannot be precisely categorized; it features collage, drawing, and journal entries. The evening, hosted by Printed Matter, begins at 6:30.

The fifth annual Poets Forum is in full swing on Friday. Susan Howe discusses poetry and telepathy; Cate Marvin joins Gabrielle Calvocoressi and Matthew Dickman in conversation; and the whole city opens its doors for Poetry Walking Tours.

SATURDAY

It’s your last chance to inhabit Landscape X, a sculptural collage environment created by Nicola Lopez at the Guggenheim. Her show has appeared as part of the Intervals series, and utilizes three levels of the Frank Lloyd Wright-designed rotunda.

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As ever there are plenty of events going on this weekend that promise to serve up a surplus of splendor giving you sustained gratification. Because there is so much happening, we have once again deciphered a few worthy contenders from modal-synth sounds to Sundance favorites. Enjoy.

FRIDAY

This Pinch definitely doesn’t hurt. The show features artists Kurt Freyer, Elizabeth Hoy and Emilie Selden at Fowler Arts. Also, BOMB’s own Luke Degnan will be doing a reading in conjunction with this show at the same venue next week. Don’t miss it! There’s more information here.

Brooklyn synth-duo Xeno and Oaklander. released “Sets and Lights” yesterday. Our tip for Friday is that you head on down to Neon Marshmallow Festival and catch them live.

SATURDAY

Oh snap! Brad Mehldau and Joshua Redman get together for the 25th anniversary of the New School’s Jazz and Contemporary Music Concert at the Tishman Auditorium.

The D’Amelio Terras Gallery shows a selection of new abstract performative paintings by Joanne Greenbaum. Some of her latest work can be recognized on the cover of Wilco’s latest album.

For our Chicago readers, we suggest that you make it to the Chicago International Film Festival to see the Sundance 2011 debutant HERE.

Taking place over the course of this weekend, in conjunction with the Gowanus open studios, Dale Williams, showcases his exciting new works as well as embellishing some of his older pieces. Get yourself down to the two day event.

SUNDAY

The Matthew Buckingham show continues at Brooklyn Museum this weekend. Read his awesome interview with BOMB first, for some end-of-the-weekend fun.

Composer Rhys Chatham and guitarist Alan Licht lend their revered talents to the Neon Marshmallow Festival this Sunday.

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This week’s BOMB Alert brings you fresh paint, punching-bag retrospectives, and post-punk analysis. You also have four opportunities to explore the innards of the New York Public Library with Ben Katchor.

FRIDAY

Check out Frank Stella’s iconic paintings of the ‘60s and ‘70s at Paul Kasmin this weekend. After all, he has been called “one of the forerunners of American Minimalism” (by BOMB, of course).

Sanford Biggers, featured in Issue 117 of BOMB, pulls out all the stops in Cosmic Voodoo Circus, a SculptureCenter exhibition featuring sculpture, video, photography, trapeze, and the recurring grin that is becoming a Biggers trademark.

SATURDAY

To make a long story short, go see Danna Vajda and Rona Yefman’s new show at SculptureCenter. Titled “Short Stories,” the two artists depict their issues with the role of the art critic, yet manage to get rave reviews as well.

This weekend, the 49th New York Film Festival turns up the volume with Views From the Avant-Garde. Don’t miss the screenings of George Kuchar’s Lingo of the Lost and Empire of Evil, which celebrate the work of the recently departed filmmaker.

SUNDAY

“The Sky is the Limit,” says Kim Beck. Find out what she means this Sunday at 4:00 PM at the High Line. Better keep your eyes off the ground, because this show doesn’t last long!

Blake Butler’s “Nothing: A Portrait of Insomnia” will probably do anything but put you to sleep. If you don’t believe us, ask him, when the novel celebrates its release at Bookcourt! Except don’t actually ask him, read the book. That’s rude.

The Salomon Contemporary begins its 2011–2012 season with Be All You Can’t Be, a solo exhibition by Michael Combs. The show explores societal “trophies” and uses masculine icons like football helmets, punching bags, and sports equipment to explore the human condition.

MONDAY

Margaret Atwood helps you celebrate Columbus Day! Well, sort of. She’ll be at Queens College, reading her work, and then being interviewed by Leonard Lopate.

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This week’s BOMB Alert begins with poetic all-stars and ends with sausage sandwiches, but don’t miss all the DANK happenings in between. We’re especially excited about the NY Art Book Fair. BOMB will be participating, this Thursday through Sunday!

FRIDAY

The punk era may be over, but its music, art, and political messages live on—especially through the evocative form of the “fanzine.” Johan Kugelberg has curated a show with Crass’s Gee Vaucher. Don’t miss the opening night of In All Our Decadence People Die at Boo-Hooray.

The weekend kicks off with a double-header from BOMBloggers. Contributor Tatiana Berg works with Sarah Faux to draw on darkness and decay in DANK, a show at Tompkins, but their artwork is anything but expired. Go see their three-dimensional canvases, their pipe cleaner-scrap yarn-rock garden collaborations, and their experiments with YouTube celebrity death. But first, check out some of the great work Berg has produced for BOMBlog.

Not to be outdone, Mary Jones, another BOMBlog contributor, goes HAYWIRE on Friday with Leslie Alexander, Maria Calandra, Elisabeth Condon, dNASAb, and Francesco Longenecker at STOREFRONT. Their exhibition explores the psychedelic and zany underside of what appears banal.

SATURDAY

BOMB continues its weekend vigil at this year’s New York Art Book Fair. Come hang out with BOMB and tons of other exhibitors at MoMA PS1. Our table is #P04 on the third floor; stop by and browse vintage back issues, check out the latest fall issue, and buy those rare, hard to find First Proof booklets with fold-out covers. There will be special discounts, free posters, and other treats too. BOMB editors will be around throughout the fair, so drop by and say hello!

Head to the New York Botanical Garden to bask in seasonal and poetic beauty with Patricia Spears Jones, James Allen Hall, and Jeffrey Yang. The poets will get into the spirit of things by reading classic fall favorites alongside their own work.

SUNDAY

In a weekend chock-full of literary events and celebrations, The New Yorker piles on with its annual festival. At noon on Sunday, Mary Ellen Mark and Martin Schoeller, who are featured in “Beyond Words: Photography in The New Yorker,” will discuss their work with Elisabeth Biondi.

Add to your palate of local color at the 37th annual Atlantic Antic street fair. A Brooklyn institution that spans four neighborhoods, the day will feature eclectic local culinary delights like funnel cake and sausage sandwiches, along with singing, dancing, and pony rides.

Maggie Nelson celebrates the release of The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning alongside cultural critics Jack Halberstam and Wayne Koestenbaum at Cabinet. The evening includes readings, beer, and a discussion about the “ugly feelings”—shame, pornography, failure—that pervade contemporary culture.

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Check out added weekend events in this week’s BOMB Alert, including the DUMBO Arts Festival, a live video installation, and an exciting discussion panel at powerHouse Arena!

FRIDAY

Be sure to check out Itziar Barrio’s Blue Wall Project, tonight at Moviehouse at 7 PM! The project is a video installation that explores themes of impermanence, urban space, and temporal landscape by creating a live video screen out of a construction fence.

Jane Hammond’s Fallen is being taken to the Flag Art Foundation this Friday. Not seen since its 2007 run at the Whitney, Hammond’s Fallen is an ongoing memorial commemorating American soldiers killed in the Iraq war. It is a particularly aching and apt exhibit as the leaves begin to change and drop this season.

SATURDAY

On second day of this weekend’s DUMBO Arts Festival, Rachel Beach shows her work at Smack Mellon. Rachel continues to explores her fascination with transitions of perception, wielding both large sculptures and painted images. There are plenty of other events going on at this venue, which mainly hosts under-represented female artists, so be sure to turn out for those as well.

Carmela Ciuraru, Ben Greenman, Barbara Jones, and Darin Strauss join forces for a panel discussion titled ‘Authenticity and the Creative Life’ at powerHouse Arena, followed by a book signing. Who doesn’t love talking about fraud, alter egos, and the deceit of narration?

SUNDAY

Sunday is the last day to attend the DUMBO Arts Festival! Head over to Brooklyn for an exciting mix of exhibits, performances, concerts, and some quality street-fair food. Visit their website before you go, and revel the immensity of the festival’s events.

Take a stroll on Crosby Street to celebrate the arrival of fall with Housing Works. Their Open Air Street Fair will feature thousands of donated books, records and CDs, plus clothing and shoes from the Housing Works Thrift Shops. And who can say no to cobblestone streets, live music, and great snacks?

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Jennifer Rodriguez reports from a cocktail reception for Elissa Schappell’s new book Blueprints for Building Better Girls.

On last Wednesday evening, Vanity Fair Editor-in-Chief Graydon Carter hosted a cocktail reception at The Waverly Inn to honor the release of author Elissa Schappell’s Blueprints for Building Better Girls. Schappell is a Contributing Editor at Vanity Fair, and Blueprints is her second short story collection. Schappell and Carter’s friendship dates back to their formative days at the satirical monthly, Spy Magazine.

Carter co-founded Spy in 1986 and gave Schappell her first writing job there. Resplendent in a vintage white satin gown, Schappell reflected on her days at the publication.

“It was an incredible place to work,” she said. “Come on, I was a kid, and here I was at the most influential magazine of the ‘80s!”

“I remember listening to the editors riffing,” she continued. “They were so clever and so fast, one-upping each other and everybody was laughing . . . . ”

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This week’s BOMB Alert features a smattering of openings, readings, and gatherings, and invites you to join BOMB in celebration of Brooklyn’s independent publishing scene.

MONDAY

Patricia Spears Jones and Edwin Torres form a fierce poetic pair at the Lincoln Center Fordham campus. Part of the Poets Out Loud series, the reading also includes a reception and book-signing.

TUESDAY

Documentary filmmaker Errol Morris has released Believing Is Seeing: Observations on the Mystery of Photography, a book about the limitations and the illuminations of vision. Pick up a copy of the book, which features photographs and six essays about their enigmatic, distorting nature.

Get a fresh burst of young writing when you check out 30 Under 30, a new collection of American fiction by innovative young authors. Blake Butler and Lily Hoang are the brains behind the tome, which has a cover bearing doodled-on yearbook photos of adolescents. An interview with Butler and Hoang will be posted on BOMBlog soon; keep your eyes peeled!

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This weekend’s BOMB Alert encourages you to head out and celebrate dedications, art openings, and poetry readings—but don’t miss Sam Lipsyte and BOMB at the Lit Crawl NYC this Saturday!

FRIDAY

Celebrate Elizabeth Murray and her contributions to the art world (and what would have been her 71st birthday) with the Bowery’s dedication of the Elizabeth Murray Art Wall. Also catch the screening for the trailer of “Elizabeth Murray: Everybody Knows,” Kristi Zea’s forthcoming film.

SATURDAY

This group exhibition will be including work by Barbara Kruger, Jenny Holzer, John Waters and Richard Prince among others. The artists show how they’ve come to incorporate words into their work, and they explore why texts, phrases and fonts are an integral part of contemporary society. Go see Word Up! Recent Text-Based Work at Benrimon Contemporary

Check out the opening of Cosmic Voodoo Circus, Sanford Bigger’s new exhibition that explores cross-cultural, cross-disciplinary identity and features an empty trapeze. Be sure to stay tuned for the feature on Bigger in BOMB’s Fall issue, on newsstands September 15!

SUNDAY

Gather to commemorate the ten year anniversary of the 9/11 events and the six months of recovery since the earthquake in Japan with the Japan Society. The organization has put together a small film festival, featuring over 30 animated shorts, including Pixar’s much anticipated La Luna. All proceeds go to the Japan Earthquake Relief Fund.

September 11, an aptly titled exhibition, launches at MOMA PS1, designed to reflect upon how the past decade of art has been shaped by the attacks of 2001. Artists featured include Luis Camnitzer, Sarah Charlesworth, Janet Cardiff, and Jem Cohen, among many others.

Joyce SoHo presents a concert of composers, in memoriam of the events of a decade ago, starting at 8:46 AM and extending until midnight. The music of Philip Glass, Julia Wolfe, Lou Reed, and many others will be played, along with performances from Laurie Anderson, Lisa Moore, and the JACK Quartet.

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The Lit Crawl NYC festival, sponsored by BOMB, takes place this Saturday, September 10th. The festival’s co-founder and director, Suzanne Russo, chatted with us briefly about the weekend’s exciting events.

Suzanne Russo started out working for Litquake in San Francisco a few years back, and eventually found herself moving to New York to help start the first ever Lit Crawl NYC four years ago. The event has gotten bigger and bigger since then, expanding locales, authors, participants, and after-party hours. According to the Lit Crawl NYC website’s bio of Suzanne, “When not consumed by all things literature and crawling, she works at Hearst Digital Media, pens travel stories, and contemplates J.D. Salinger.” And amongst all this, Suzanne had some time to talk to us about the upcoming romping literary festival.

BOMB So first off, can you tell us a bit about what we can expect this weekend? How long is the festival, and what are some of the highlights in your expert opinion?

SUZANNE RUSSO This promises to be our biggest and best crawl yet. We’ve jumped up to 20 venues this year, over the course of three hours. The first phase starts around St. Mark’s, and then we’ll work our way down Bowery, ending in the Lower East Side for the final phase and the after party at Gallery Bar.

The lineup is so great this year, and we’ve branched out to some really unique events, like New York history writers (Scumbags, Scalawags, and Satanists). I’m excited have SMITH Magazine along this year with their Six-Word Memoir Slam, and the “Sex Lives of Salesmen” event, where Helen DeWitt will be comparing actors’ renditions of scenes from her latest novel, promises to be fantastic.

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