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BOMB Magazine   h4. Sign up for BOMB's "(external)e-newsletter":http://bombsite.list-manage.com/subscribe?u=5e57727ac4f04a6be488a6670&id=d45e7f673a and stay up to date on all our live events, conversations, readings, and more!   h3. Upcoming Events UPDATE: TONIGHT'S EVENT AT EL MUSEO HAS BEEN CANCELLED DUE TO THE SNOWSTORM. h1. BOMB 110 Launch Party: The 11th Annual Americas Issue   !!47407<!! "(external)El Museo del Barrio":http://www.elmuseo.org/ celebrates BOMB Magazine’s 11th annual Americas Issue. Join BOMB’s editors and contributors for an evening of readings, conversations, and multimedia presentations dedicated to Colombia and Venezuela. Featuring Luis Molina Pantin’s narco-architecture photographs, videos by the Caracas-based team Nacimento/Lovera, literary readings by Silvana Paternostro, Luis Enrique Pérez-Oramas, Esperanza Mayobre, Marc Nasdor on Colombia’s Frente Cumbiero/DJ sets by Poodlecannon, and more. *Wednesday, February 10th* *6:30–8:30pm* *El Museo del Barrio* *1230 Fifth Avenue (at 104th St.)* *New York* <hr /> h3. Past Events h3. Check out photos from our Fall/Winter '09 events "(external)here":http://bombsite.com/issues/0/articles/3429.   !!42169<!!   h2. BOMB's "Starry Night" Holiday Party & Art Sale h3. Small Drawings, Big Savings, $300–$400 each Curated by Klaus Kertess & Betsy Sussler     *Thursday, December 10, 6:30–9:00 PM Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery 526 West 26th Street, #213 New York City RSVP appreciated by December 10 RSVP@bombsite.com* Please join BOMB and the artists for a one-night only event of the year. 178 signed, original drawings will be available for 60–70% below market value, starting at $300! Buy two, get an additional 20% off...buy three, get an extra 30% off. *Gregory Botts, Joe Bradley, Echo Eggebrecht, _Eric Fischl_, Karl Haendel, Adam Helms, David Kramer, Keith Mayerson, James Nares, Danica Phelps, David Salle, _Billy Sullivan_, Jason Tomme* _(Italicized names available only as part of a complete set of all 13 drawings)_. View and/or purchase individual drawings at current prices online "(external)here":http://www.bombsite.com/tags/12. For more information, and to purchase a complete set, call 718.636.9100 x106.   <hr/> h1. BOMB Fall Issue 109 Launch Reading   !!41587!! *Tuesday, November 3, 7pm BookCourt 163 Court St (at Dean St.) Brooklyn, NY 718.875.3677 "(external)BookCourt":http://www.bookcourt.org/ * Literature and theater converge at BookCourt! Join the editors of BOMB Magazine to celebrate the launch of our fall issue, with readings by Christopher Sorrentino and Victoria Redel, featuring a short staged performance of a play by Thomas Bradshaw. *Thomas Bradshaw* is the author of numerous plays, including ??Purity?? and ??Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist??. His latest work, ??The Bereaved??, opened in September at the Wild Project. A 2009 Guggenheim fellow, he is currently working on an adaptation of the Book of Job and a play about Queen Catherine. Bradshaw is currently on the faculty at Medgar Evers College. *Victoria Redel* is the author of two books of poetry and three books of fiction. Her most recent novel is ??The Border of Truth??. Her novel ??Loverboy?? was chosen in 2001 as a Los Angeles Times Best Book and was adapted for a feature film. She is on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College. *Christopher Sorrentino* is the author of three books, including the National Book Award finalist ??Trance??. His work has appeared in ??Conjunctions??, ??Esquire??, ??Harper’s??, ??The New York Times??, ??Playboy??, ??Tin House?? and many other publications. He lives in Brooklyn. Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100 x104.   <hr/> h1. BOMB & LitCrawl San Francisco h2. It's a bar crawl...with literature! !!40867<!!!!40879<!!!!40873<!!   *Saturday, October 17, 2009 6:00pm–7:00pm "(external)The Dark Room":http://darkroomsf.com/ 2263 Mission Street (btw. 18th and 19th) San Francisco 415.401.7987 FREE to the Public! * Join the staff of BOMB Magazine for the first stop in a series of literary events around San Francisco, with the triumphant return of *BOMB-aoke!* Come help us re-enact classic interviews from BOMB’s 28 years in a karaoke-style format. Act out Jonathan Safran Foer interviewing Jeffrey Eugenides (BOMB #81), or play Paula Fox from Lynne Tillman’s conversation (BOMB #95). The best performance wins a free vintage issue of BOMB worth lots of dough! For more information about the San Francisco LitQuake, and for the full LitCrawl schedule, visit their "(external)site":http://www.litquake.org/festival-schedule-2009/. For questions about this event, contact Paul Morris at 718.636.9100 x104.   <hr/> !!40156!! h1. BOMB Magazine at Brooklyn Book Festival: Writing Writers Sunday, September 13th, 2009 BOMB Magazine presents a conversation with critically acclaimed authors *Christopher Sorrentino* (??Trance??), *Michael Thomas* (??Man Gone Down??), and filmmaker *Astra Taylor* as moderator. Taylor’s documentary film and newly released book, ??Examined Life??, takes contemporary thinkers out of the ivory tower to discuss philosophical matters in plain speak. In this BOMBLive! conversation, the authors discuss what writing on writers might reveal about such matters: the creative impulse, the relationship between fact and imagination, and the ethics of representation. Writer and documentary filmmaker *Astra Taylor* was named one of 25 New Faces to Watch in 2006 by ??Filmmaker Magazine??. Her feature documentaries, ??Zizek!?? and ??Examined Life?? both premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and are distributed by Zeitgeist Films. The companion book ??Examined Life: Excursions With Contemporary Thinkers?? is available from The New Press. She has taught at the University of Georgia and SUNY, New Paltz. *Christopher Sorrentino* is the author of three books, including the National Book Award finalist ??Trance??. His work has appeared in ??Conjunctions??, ??Esquire??, ??Harper’s??, ??The New York Times??, ??Playboy??, ??Tin House??, and many other publications. He lives in Brooklyn. *Michael Thomas* was born and raised in Boston. He received his B.A. from Hunter College and his M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College. His debut novel, ??Man Gone Down??, won the 2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He teaches at Hunter and lives in Brooklyn. Our program is at 5PM at the Borough Hall Courtroom, 209 Joralemon Street. http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/   <hr/> h1. BOMB Magazine and Park-LIT Wednesday, July 22, 2009 6:30pm Tompkins Square Park Central area, entrance: 7th St. btw. Aves. A & B FREE Please join us in celebrating the publication of BOMB's Summer Issue 108 with a selection of readings from its literary supplement, _First Proof_, featuring appearances by the following contributing poets and writers: *Hildebrand Pam Dick*—is a writer, artist, and philosopher. She lives in New York City. As Mina Pam Dick, she is the author of ??Delinquent??, forthcoming from Futurepoem books in the fall of 2009. Excerpts from ??Delinquent?? appeared in the 2008 issue of Tantalum. *Alan Gilbert* is the author of ??Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight??. His writings on poetry, art, culture, and politics have appeared in a variety of publications, including ??Artforum??, ??Modern Painters??, and the ??Village Voice??; his poems have appeared in the ??Boston Review??, ??Brooklyn Rail??, and ??Chicago Review??, among other places. He lives in New York City and is a 2009 NYFA Fellow. *Raphael Rubinstein*’s most recent book is a collection of poems titled ??The Afterglow of Minor Pop Masterpieces?? (Make Now). He is a frequent contributor to ??Art in America?? and a professor of critical studies at the University of Houston. He lives in New York City. *Matthew Sharpe* is the author of the novels ??Jamestown??, ??The Sleeping Father??, and ??Nothing Is Terrible??. His stories and essays have appeared in ??Harper’s??, ??Zoetrope??, ??McSweeney’s??, ??The Los Angeles Times??, ??Art on Paper??, and elsewhere. *Frederic Tuten* is the author of the novels ??The Adventures of Mao on the Long March??; ??Tallien: A Brief Romance??; ??Tintin in the New World: A Romance??; ??Van Gogh’s Bad Café??; and ??The Green Hour??. His short fiction has appeared in several literary magazines and art catalogues. He is a Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction and has been given the Award for Distinguished Writing from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York City. Part of the Park-Lit Summer outdoor reading series co-sponsored by sponsored by ??Open City??, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.   Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100 x104.   <hr/> h1. BOMB Magazine's Summer Issue Launch Party Extravanganza! !!36265<!! !!36283!!   h3. Tuesday, June 23, 8–11:30pm "(external)Galapagos Art Space":http://www.galapagosartspace.com 16 Main St. DUMBO, Brooklyn Free admission! Come party with the BOMB staff and contributors to Issue 108 and celebrate 28 years of legendary interviews between artists, writers, filmmakers & musicians. Cabaret performances and aerialists, compliments of Galapagos Art Space!   !!36271<!!   Galapagos Art Space—now located in DUMBO, Brooklyn—is soon to be the first LEED certified 'green' cultural venue in New York City. Galapagos has a 1600 sq ft lake inside our building. Nestled beside Brooklyn Bridge Park, between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, and housed in a former horse stable, the new Galapagos Art Space was awarded 'Best New Art Space' by New York Press, and was awarded a '2009 Building Brooklyn Award' for art and culture. Galapagos Art Space is located at 16 Main Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Visit their "(external)website":http://www.galapagosartspace.com or call 718 222 8500.     Contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100 x104.   <hr/> h1. BOMB & Granta's BookExpo Bash *Thursday, May 28 7:00pm–9:30pm Housing Works Bookstore & Cafe 126 Crosby St. Free to public with book donation* Join BOMB Magazine and Granta Magazine for a kick-off party to celebrate BookExpo America, happening at the Javitz Center May 29–31. Drink, eat, and mingle with booksellers, publishers, authors, and magazine folks for a memorable night of literary hijinx, with special guest DJ to be announced. Free to the public, just bring a book to donate! RSVP's a must, email us by May 25 to rsvp@bombsite.com Wine generously donated by T. Edward Wines, Ltd. Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100 x104.   <hr/> h1. BOMB & LitCrawl New York h2. It's a bar crawl...with literature! *Saturday, May 16, 2009 7:00pm–7:45pm "(external)Gallery Bar NYC":http://www.gallerybarnyc.com/home.php 120 Orchard St (Between Rivington and Delancey) F train Delancey FREE to the Public! * Join the editors of BOMB Magazine for the first stop in the second-ever New York LitCrawl, with the much-anticipated return of live *BOMB-aoke!* Help us re-enact classic interviews from BOMB’s 28 years in a karaoke-style format. Act out Jonathan Safran Foer interviewing Jeffrey Eugenides (BOMB #81), or play Paula Fox from Lynne Tillman’s conversation (BOMB #95). The best performance wins a free vintage issue of BOMB worth lots of dough! Featuring special guest poet & videomaker *Brandon Downing*, who will be lashing out with new video works that combine homophonic translation, cultural inadequacy, smoking jive tunes and curatorial practice with the cloying and destroying energy of FLARF, incurring joy, curiosity and a degree of fear! Check out his video shorts on "(external)BOMBLog":http://bombsiteblog.com/" in the coming days! *Brandon Downing* is a videomaker, visual artist, and writer originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. His poetry collections include ??The Shirt Weapon?? (Germ, 2002), and ??Dark Brandon?? (Faux, 2005). An online gallery of much of his recent photographic work can be seen online at "(external)brandondowning.org":http://www.brandondowning.org. A feature-length DVD collection of recent video works, ??Dark Brandon // Eternal Classics??, was released in 2007, and a monograph of his literary collages, ??Lake Antiquity??, will be published by Fence in 2009. For more information about Lit Crawl NYC, visit the "(external)site":http://litcrawlnyc.wordpress.com/. For questions about this event, contact Paul Morris at 718.636.9100 x104.   <hr/> h2. BOMB and PEN World Voices Festival Present: BOMBLive! Richard Ford & Nam Le, In Conversation *Sunday, May 3, 2009 2:00–3:00 p.m. "(external)The Morgan Library & Museum":http://www.themorgan.org/ Gilder Lehrman Hall 225 Madison Ave. New York City Tickets: $15/$10 Morgan and PEN Members * 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, whose 2008 story collection ??The Boat?? was one of the most intriguing and moving debuts of recent years. Don't miss this conversation about the far-ranging terrain and extraordinary possibilities of short fiction writing. *Richard Ford* is the author of six novels, including ??The Sportswriter?? and ??The Lay of the Land??, and three other collections of stories, including ??A Multitude of Sins??. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for 1995's ??Independence Day??, the first book to win both prizes. In 2001 he received the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction. *Nam Le*'s debut collection of short stories, ??The Boat??, was published in 2008, and has been translated into 11 languages. Among other honors, it has received the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award, and a National Book Foundation "5 Under 35" selection. Le is currently the fiction editor of the ??Harvard Review??. Part of the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, April 27–May 3, 2009, and co-sponsored by The Morgan Library & Museum. Visit "(external)PEN's website":http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1096 for more information about the Festival. For tickets, "(external)buy them online":http://www.smarttix.com/show.aspx?showcode=RIC25 or or call 212.868.4444. Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.626.9100 x104. !!32284>!!   <hr/> h2. BOMB Magazine's 28th Anniversary Gala & Silent Auction *Friday, April 17, 2009 "(external)The National Arts Club":http://www.theboweryhotel.com/location/ 15 Gramercy Park South (20th Street between Park & Irving) New York City* BOMB's Galas are notoriously explosive! Don't miss your chance to get in on the hottest event this Spring. Over 60 works of art will be auctioned; bidding begins at 50% off retail value. New this year: Artists Draw Raffle, each $250 ticket _guarantees_ a 3x5 inch original, signed drawing by one of 14 amazing artists. Buy your tickets "(external)here":http://bombsite.com/issues/0/articles/3257, and follow the links below to view all the artwork. "(external)*Preview the 2009 works in auction!":http://www.bombsite.com/web-content/gala_2009/index.html*   "(external)*View the Artists Draw Raffle artworks and buy a ticket!":http://www.bombsite.com/web-content/gala_2009/artist_draw.html*   For more information about the artwork and to purchase tickets, email or call Kate Montague at Livet Reichard Co. 212.868.8450 x205 or "(external)kmontague@Livetreichard.com":mailto:kmontague@Livetreichard.com.   <hr/> h2. BOMB Magazine Presents: BOMBLive! “Poets in Hollywood” h1. Robert Polito & David Trinidad, In Conversation *Thursday, April 9, 2009 1:00–2:00 p.m. Film Row Cinema, Columbia College Chicago 1104 S. Wabash Ave. 8th Floor Chicago, IL 60605 FREE to the public* BOMB Magazine’s Contributing Editor *Robert Polito* and *David Trinidad.* The poets, reading from their latest collections and in conversation for this BOMBLive! event, co-sponsored by Columbia College’s English Department and recorded for broadcast on BOMBsite.com. Also available as a podcast on BOMBLog in late April. *Robert Polito*'s most recent books are the poetry collection ??Hollywood & God?? and ??The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber??. His other books include ??Doubles??, ??A Reader’s Guide to James Merrill’s The Changing Light at Sandover??, and ??Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson??, which received the National Book Critics Circle award in biography. He is the founder and Director of the New School Graduate Writing Program, and is completing a new book, ??Detours: Seven Noir Lives.?? *David Trinidad*’s most recent book, ??The Late Show??, was published by Turtle Point Press in 2007. With Jeffery Conway and Lynn Crosbie, he co-wrote ??Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse??, a mock-epic based on the 1950 film All About Eve. His other books include ??Answer Song??, ??Hand Over Heart: Poems 1981–1988??, ??Pavane??, and ??Plasticville??, a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets. With Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton, he edited ??Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry??. Trinidad teaches poetry at Columbia College Chicago, where he co-edits the journal Court Green. _Co-sponsored by Columbia College Chicago’s English Department, Creative Writing—Poetry Program, in collaboration with BOMB Magazine._   For more information, call Columbia College at 312.369.8819.   !!30172!!   <hr/> h2. BOMB Magazine celebrates its 10th Anniversary “Americas Issue” with film and literary events   h3. Please join us in celebrating the publication of BOMB #106, dedicated to Montevideo, Santiago & Buenos Aires _Each winter for the past 10 years, BOMB devotes an entire issue to a region of the Americas, promoting the work of artists, writers, and directors, featuring interviews and first-time translations into English of original works of fiction and poetry by some of the most acclaimed artists in Latin America._ *_Hosted by the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at New York University_* *Thursday & Friday, January 29 & 30 King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, NYU 53 Washington Square South (between Thompson & Sullivan Streets) New York, NY 10012*   h2. Thursday, January 29 Reading & Launch Party Reception 6:30–8:30pm *_Co-sponsored by NYU’s MFA Program in Creative Writing in Spanish_* Contributors to BOMB 106 read in both Spanish and English. Featuring the work of two of Chile’s leading poets: *Raúl Zurita* (in a rare U.S. appearance), his translator *Anna Deeny*, and *Nicanor Parra*, as read by his translator *Liz Werner*. They are joined by the acclaimed Argentine novelist *Sergio Chejfec* and his translator, *Margaret Carson*, reading excerpts from Chejfec’s first work to appear in English, ??My Two Worlds??, and the fresh, new voice of Chilean novelist *Lina Meruane*.   h2. Friday, January 30 Film Screening and Q&A with Director 6:30–9:00pm *_Co-sponsored by Cinema Tropical_* Join us for the New York–premiere of the extraordinary documentary ??Copacabana?? by pioneer writer and director *Martín Rejtman*, whose 1992 film ??Rapado?? paved the way for New Argentine Cinema—the country’s decade-old independent film movement. A Q&A with the director and Carlos Gutiérrez, co-founding director of Cinema Tropical, will follow the screening. Seating is limited, first-come, first-served. *About the film:* Every year in mid-October, the Bolivian community in Buenos Aires celebrates its most important Patronal festivity: the party of Nuestra Señora de Copacabana. ??Copacabana?? takes this celebration as a starting point and focuses on rehearsals of dance and music groups, photo albums, and the border between Bolivia and Argentina, among other things, the film threads a simultaneously distant and close portrait of the Bolivian community from Buenos Aires.   _Every year since 1999, BOMB dedicates an entire issue to a region of the Americas, featuring interviews with artists, writers, and directors, and including first-time translations into English of original works of fiction and poetry by some of the most acclaimed artists and writers in Latin America. Issue 106 features Montevideo, Santiago, and Buenos Aires._ Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.626.9100 x104. !!30172!!   <hr/> h1. Brooklyn Independents h2. What’s Alternative about Alternative Comics? Wednesday, December 17, 7 pm Brooklyn Public Library Grand Army Plaza What’s Alternative about Alternative Comics? Comics without superheroes get called alternative, but what does that mean? Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk talks alternative styles with Matt Madden (Exercises in Style) and Cristy Road (Bad Habits). The Brooklyn Independents Series is a consortium of highly regarded, cutting-edge independent literary publishers: Akashic Press, BOMB Magazine, A Public Space, Soft Skull Press and Tin House Press. It is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art, and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.   !!29498!!   <hr/> h1. BOMB Magazine's All-Stars Reading & Holiday Party h2. with Nick Flynn, Fiona Maazel & Martin Wilner at The Other Means Reading Series !!30801<!!!!30789<!!!!30783<!! Thursday, December 4 8PM Flying Saucer Café 494 Altantic Avenue (between Nevins & Third Ave.) Brooklyn, NY www.othermeans.wordpress.com/ Join the staff of BOMB Magazine as we celebrate BOMB's literary supplement ??First Proof??, with special guest readers *Nick Flynn*, *Fiona Maazel*, and cover artist *Martin Wilner*. ??First Proof?? is BOMB's pocket-sized pull-out, featuring multi-panel, fold-out covers exclusively designed by groundbreaking artists for BOMB readers. A limited number of free pull-outs will be on hand that night for guests to have. "(external)Read more":/issues/0/articles/2943 about BOMB's First Proof literary supplement.   <hr/> h3. About The Other Means Reading Series The Other Means Reading Series was founded to initiate and encourage meaningful and mutually beneficial relationships between New York City writers, lit fans, and community organizations. Each month, three writers collectively choose a local charity to support. At our readings at The Flying Saucer (usually the final Tuesday of each month), attendees can learn more about the charity, make donations on the spot, or find out about volunteer opportunities. All money collected through our $5 suggested donation goes to that month's charity. Other Means aims to engage not just writers and charities, but to help people change their ideas about charity. By working with local community organizations and mobilizing attendees to give small donations, Other Means hopes to change people's minds about how much you have to give to make a difference—to show that small donations matter, and that charity isn't just for the rich. Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100 x104. !!29504!!   <hr/> h1. Brooklyn Independents h2. Baseball and Literature Co-sponsored by BOMB Magazine Wed, Nov 12 7–8pm Brooklyn Public Library Grand Army Plaza Dweck Auditorium FREE to the Public! Sandy Koufax, Joe Torre and Rico Petrocelli kicked the dust on Brooklyn's Parade Grounds sixty years ago. Today, Brooklyn authors including Michael Thomas, Nicky Dawidoff and Kevin Baker add their legends to baseball literature. The Brooklyn Independents Series is a consortium of highly regarded, cutting-edge independent literary publishers: Akashic Press, BOMB Magazine, A Public Space, Soft Skull Press and Tin House Press. It is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art, and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.   <hr/> h1. BOMBLive! h2. Young Jean Lee interviewed by Richard Maxwell Co-sponsored by Performance Space 122 !!30705<!!!!30693<!!!!30687<!! Wednesday, November 5 7:30pm P.S. 122 150 First Ave. Mabou Mines Studio 2nd Floor New York, NY 10009 Join BOMB Magazine for an on-stage conversation between playwrights Young Jean Lee and Richard Maxwell and the audience, co-sponsored by P.S. 122 and hosted by Mabou Mines Studio. This is a shoot, filmed for streaming video on BOMBsite.com. BOMBLive! is an ongoing series of conversations filmed in front of audiences throughout the city. Come be a part of the show! Young Jean Lee, a New York City–based playwright with her own internationally-touring company—Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company—won the 2007 OBIE Award for an emerging playwright. Her shows include ??The Shipment??, ??Church??, and ??Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven??. Known for her provocative, disorienting spin on familiar subjects, she has taken on topics ranging from Asian-American identity politics to Evangelical Christianity. Describing her process, Lee has written, “When starting a play, I ask myself, ‘What’s the last play in the world I would ever want to write?’ Then I force myself to write it.” Lee has recently won grants from the Jerome Foundation, the Rockefeller MAP Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts. Lee will be interviewed by Richard Maxwell, one of New York City’s most active and discussed playwrights. His “postdramatic” plays have been considered by the ??New York Times?? to be “hilarious and trenchant looks at American passivity.” The author and/or director of some 15 plays, his most recent work is ??Ode to the Man Who Kneels??. Maxwell was interviewed in BOMB’s Fall issue, on newsstands now. "(external)Read it online now":/issues/105/articles/3183now. Performance Space 122 is one of New York's ultimate destinations for cutting-edge theatre, dance, music, live art and cross-media. Founded in 1979, Performance Space 122 is dedicated to supporting and presenting artists from NYC and around the world whose work challenges the traditional boundaries of live performance. Committed to exploring innovative form as well as material, P.S. 122 is steadfast in its search for pioneering artists from a diversity of cultures and points of view. For more information about P.S. 122, visit their "(external)website":http://www.ps122.org/. Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100x104.   <hr/> h1. BOMBLive! h2. Peter Cole interviewed by Edward Hirsch Co-sponsored by Brooklyn Public Library !!27625!! Wednesday, October 22 7:00pm Brooklyn Public Library Grand Army Plaza Dweck Auditorium FREE to the Public! Join BOMB Magazine for an extraordinary evening conversation between MacArthur Fellows Peter Cole and Edward Hirsch. Part of BOMBLive!, an ongoing series of conversations filmed in front of audiences throughout the city. Come be a part the show! The recipient of a 2007 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Peter Cole is the author of three books of poetry, most recently, ??Things on Which I've Stumbled??. He has translated widely from Hebrew and Arabic, and has received numerous awards for his work, including the PEN Translation Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His anthology ??The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950–1492?? received the university press “book of the year” award from the American Publishers Association. Co-founder and publisher of Ibis Editions, he divides his time between Israel and the U.S. Cole will be interviewed by MacArthur Fellow Edward Hirsch, President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and author of over ten books of poetry and prose, including the national bestseller ??How to Read a Poem?? and ??Fall in Love with Poetry??.   For more information about the Brooklyn Public Library, visit "(external)their website":http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/. Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100x104.     <hr/> h1. BOMBLive! h2. Jonathan Lethem interviewed by Betsy Sussler Co-sponsored by The Cleveland Institute of Art !!26508<!!   Thursday, October 02, 2008 7:00pm The Cleveland Institute of Art 11141 East Boulevard FREE to the Public!         Jonathan Lethem, best-selling author of such books as ??Motherless Brooklyn??, ??Fortress of Solitude??, and ??The Disappointment Artist??, talks with Betsy Sussler, co-founder and editor in chief of BOMB Magazine. Lethem is the author of coming-of-age tales that incorporate the elements of noir mysteries, westerns, science fiction, and comic books. Part of BOMBLive!, an ongoing series of conversations filmed in front of audiences throughout the city. Come be a part the show! Part of the "Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow: The Kacalieff Lecture Series 2007-2008." For more information about this series and the Cleveland Institute of Art, visit "(external)their website":http://www.cia.edu/. Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.   <hr/> h1. BOMB Magazine & Lit Crawl NYC h2. It's a bar crawl...with literature! Saturday, September 27, 2008 8:30pm–9:15pm "(external)Pete's Candy Store":http://www.petescandystore.com/home2.html 709 Lorimer St., Williamsburg FREE to the Public! Join the editors of BOMB Magazine, authors Donald Breckenridge and Nicole Steinberg, and others for the last stop in the first-ever New York LitCrawl, a series of readings at various bars throughout the city. Come help us re-enact classic interviews from BOMB's 27 years in a karaoke-style format. The best performance wins a free vintage issue of BOMB worth lots of dough! *Donald Breckenridge* is the author of more than a dozen plays as well as the novella ??Rockaway Wherein?? (Red Dust, 1998), and the novel ??6/2/95?? (Spuyten Duyvil, 2002). His novel YOU ARE HERE is forthcoming from ??Starcherone Books?? (May 09) and his novel ??Arabesques for Sauquoit?? is forthcoming from Autonomedia (Summer 2009). In addition, he is the fiction editor of ??The Brooklyn Rail??, co-editor of the Intranslation website and editor of ??The Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology?? (Hanging Loose Press, 2006). *Nicole Steinberg* is co-editor of ??LIT??, an Associate Editor for ??Entertainment Weekly??, and a contributing editor to BOMB. Her poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in ??Gulf Coast, No Tell Motel, Eleven Eleven, Barrelhouse, Barrow Street, RealPoetik, Spooky Boyfriend??, and elsewhere. She hosts and curates "(external)EARSHOT":http://earshotnyc.com, a Brooklyn-based reading series dedicated to emerging writers of all genres. She's at work on an anthology about Queens, New York, where she currently resides. Beginning at 6pm in the Lower East Side, LitCrawl is a series of readings and events at various bars throughout the city, starting at 6pm on the Lower East Side, continuing through the East Village at 7:15, and then onto Williamsburg at 8:30, culminating in a literary after-party. For more information, please visit "(external)Lit Crawl NYC":http://litcrawlnyc.wordpress.com/. Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.   <hr/> !!26490<!! !!26502<!! !!26496<!! h1. BOMB Magazine at the 3rd Annual Brooklyn Book Festival Sunday, September 14, 2008 10am–6pm Brooklyn Borough Hall, booth #13 Central Plaza area, by the Courthouse, at Court St. and Remsen St. FREE to the Public! Swing by the BOMB table at the 3rd Annual Book Festival to check out the new fall issue of BOMB #105 before it hits newsstands! Peruse back issues, speak with editors, and enter to win a raffle for a vintage issue of BOMB from the '80s. At 10am, don't miss BOMB Senior Editor Monica de la Torre moderate a panel discussion of first-time novelists Hannah Tinti (??The Good Thief??), Amy Shearn (??How Far is the Ocean From Here??), and Toby Barlow (??Sharp Teeth??), Borough Hall Community Room (209 Joralemon St.). For more information about the Festival, visit "(external)their website":http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/. Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.   <hr/> h1. BOMB Magazine in the Park h2. Raffles! Readings! Re-enactments! Thursday, July 17, 2008 6:30pm Tompkins Square Park Central area, entrance: 7th St. btw. Aves. A & B FREE Please join the staff of BOMB Magazine in celebrating the publication of BOMB #104 and its all-new pull-out literary supplement, _First Proof_, featuring appearances by the following contributing poets and writers: *Patrick Dacey*'s work has appeared in _The Washington Square Review_, _Avery_, _Faultline_, and the _Smithsonian_ magazine, among other publications. *Sally Dawidoff* is a poet whose work has appeared in _American Journal of Nursing_, _Ploughshares_, _Barrow Street_, and other journals. *Gary Indiana* is the author of several novels and works of nonfiction. His second collection of essays, _Utopia's Debris_, will be published by Basic Books in November, followed by his new novel, _The Shanghai Gesture_, by Two Dollar Radio next spring. *Fiona Maazel*’s first novel, _Last Last Chance_, was published by Farrar, Strauss & Giroux in March. Enter to win a vintage issue of BOMB from the ’80s worth lots of dough and listen to re-enactments of some truly classic BOMB interviews. _Part of the Park-Lit Summer Reading Series._ Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.   <hr/> h1. BOMBLive! at Housing Works: h2. Honor Moore & Victoria Redel, In Conversation   h3. Join us for a conversation between Honor Moore (??The Bishop’s Daughter??) and Victoria Redel (??The Border of Truth??) as they talk about fathers and daughters, fiction and memory. Followed by a question and answer period.   !!19477!! Monday, June 30 7 PM Housing Works Bookstore 126 Crosby Street FREE to the Public!   *Honor Moore* is an award-winning poet and nonfiction writer whose books include ??Red Shoes??, ??Darling??, and a biography of Margarett Sargent, which was a New York Times Notable Book. Her memoir, ??The Bishop's Daughter??, about her relationship with her father, Bishop Paul Moore, was just published by W. W. Norton in May 2008. She lives in New York City and teaches graduate writing at The New School and Columbia University School of the Arts. *Victoria Redel* is the author of two books of poetry and three books of fiction, including ??Swoon??, ??Where the Road Bottoms Out??, and ??Loverboy??, which was adapted for film starring Kyra Sedgewick and Matt Dillon and directed by Kevin Bacon. Her most recent novel, ??The Border of Truth??, published by Counterpoint in 2007, focuses on a woman who is faced with the secrets of her refugee father's tumultuous past. She currently teaches in the Graduate Writing program at Columbia University and is on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College. "(external)Directions to Housing Works":http://housingworksbookstore.org/   Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100 x104.   <hr/> h1. BOMB Magazine Presents: h2. An-My Lê interviewed by Michael Almereyda   h3. Join us for a a video screening and conversation presented in cooperation with Art:21: Art in the 21st Century, Season Four.   !!18429!! Monday, May 5, 6:30 p.m. Mid-Manhattan Library, 6th Floor The New York Public Library 40th Street and 5th Avenue New York, NY 10016 212-340-0871   How do contemporary artists engage politics, inequality, global conflict? This episode of Art21 entitled "Protest" examines the ways in which contemporary artists picture and question war, express outrage, and empathize with the suffering of others. Whether bearing witness to tragic events or engaging in acitivism, the artists interviewed in "Protest" use visual art as a means to provoke ideas and question social revolutions. After the screening writer and filmmaker Michael Almereyda will join An-My Lê for a conversation and Q&A session. Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100 x104.   <hr/> h1. BOMB Magazine Presents: h2. Writing Place, Finding Refuge   h3. *Join us at the PEN World Voices Festival for a panel discussion with Fatou Diome, Nuruddin Farah, Xiaolu Guo, and Etgar Keret, moderated by Rick Moody.* !!17955!! Thursday, May 1 7 PM Brooklyn Public Library Grand Army Plaza FREE to the Public!   Best-selling novelist Rick Moody will guide the discussion among Fatou Diome, Nuruddin Farrah, Xiaolu Guo, and Etgar Keret about the settings for their novels and short stories, the place they call home, and where they find refuge. Introduced by BOMB's editor-in-chief Betsy Sussler. Part of the PEN World Voices Festival: "(external)Public Lives, Private Lives":http://www.pen.org/page.php/prmID/1096 "(external)Directions to the Brooklyn Public Library":http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/   Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100 x104.   <hr/> h1. BOMB Magazine Presents: h2. Charles Atlas interviewed by Lia Gangitano   h3. Join us for a a video screening and conversation presented in cooperation with Art:21: Art in the 21st Century, Season Four.   !!17031!! Monday, April 7, 6:30 p.m. Mid-Manhattan Library, 6th Floor The New York Public Library 40th Street and 5th Avenue New York, NY 10016 212-340-0871   How do contemporary artists address contradiction, ambiguity, and truth? This episode of Art21 entitled "Paradox" investigates the boundaries between abstraction and representation, fact and fiction. After the screening Lia Gangitano, Director of Participant Inc., will join Charles Atlas for a conversation and Q&A session. Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100 x104.     <hr/> h1. BOMB Magazine Presents: h2. An evening of music and reading at Joe's Pub   !!16365<!!     Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 9 p.m. "(external)Joe's Pub":http://www.joespub.com/ 425 Lafayette St. New York, NY 10003   Join BOMB for a special evening presented in cooperation with the Asthmatic Kitty Record Label and Happy Ending Music & Reading Series, live from Joe's Pub. Performers include *Alec Hanley Bemis, Daphne Carr, Rob Sheffield,* and musical guest *My Brightest Diamond.* Doors open at 9 p.m., show starts at 9:30 p.m. sharp. Tickets are $15 and going fast. To purchase, "(external)click here":http://www.joespub.com/component/option,com_shows/task,view/Itemid,40/id,3798 Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100 x104.     <hr/> h1. BOMB Magazine Presents: h2. Judy Pfaff interviewed by Betsy Sussler   h3. Join us for a a video screening and conversation presented in cooperation with Art:21: Art in the 21st Century, Season Four.   !!15849!! Monday, March 3rd, 6:30 p.m. Mid-Manhattan Library, 6th Floor The New York Public Library 40th Street and 5th Avenue New York, NY 10016 212-340-0871   How do contemporary artists respond to traditionally romantic ideals such as sentimentality, pathos, and the philosophy of art for art’s sake? This episode of Art21 entitled "Romance" poses questions about the value of pleasure in art and features artists whose works are extended meditations on mortality, love, reality and make-believe. After the screening Betsy Sussler, Editor in Chief and Publisher of BOMB Magazine, will join Judy Pfaff for a conversation and Q&A session. Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100 x104.   <hr/> h1. BOMBLive! at Proteus Gowanus: h2. In the Open: Art in Public Spaces Ellen Driscoll & Anita Glesta, In Conversation   h3. *Join us for the second in a series of staged interviews between architects, urban theoreticians, and artists working in the public realm.*   !!12381<!!   Sunday, December 2, 2pm "(external)Proteus Gowanus":http://www.proteusgowanus.com/ 543 Union Street Brooklyn, NY 11215 FREE to the Public!   Anita Glesta’s _Gernika/Guernica_, shown in Lower Manhattan in Spring 2007, juxtaposed the provocative abstraction of Picasso’s infamous painting with survivor accounts of the 1937 bombing of a Basque village. Ellen Driscoll’s sculpture _Revenant_, a bridge made from hundreds of #2 plastic bottles, was recently installed at the Nippon Ginko Bank in Hiroshima, Japan, one of the few structures to survive the atomic blast. The two artists will meet to discuss the power of memory and storytelling.   Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100 x104.     <hr/> h1. BOMB Magazine Presents: h2. Noah Baumbach & Jonathan Baumbach, In Conversation   !!9003<!! Sunday, November 11 7 PM "(external)Southpaw":http://www.spsounds.com 125 Fifth Avenue Park Slope Brooklyn, NY 11217 $10 – Buy Tickets: "(external)www.spsounds.com":http://www.spsounds.com   Join BOMB Magazine as it co-sponsors the very first event of PEN American Center’s new series, PENultimate Lit, featuring writer and professor Jonathan Baumbach in conversation with acclaimed filmmaker Noah Baumbach, whose most recent film ??Margot at the Wedding?? premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 7th. The evening will be hosted by novelist Amanda Stern, author of ??The Long Haul??. Read BOMB’s interview with Noah Baumbach, conducted by celebrated writer Jonathan Lethem, from our "(external)Fall 2005 issue":http://bombsite.com/issues/93/articles/2763. PENultimate Lit is a new literary series organized by PEN American Center that explores "the intersection of literature and the arts in the modern world." "(external)Find out more about the series and the event":http://pen.org/viewmedia.php/prmMID/1655/prmID/148. Visit the "(external)Southpaw website":http://www.spsounds.com/ to purchase your $10 tickets.     <hr/> h1. BOMB Magazine Presents: h2. Launch Party for ??Fire and Knowledge?? by Péter Nádas   !!7711<!! Wednesday, November 7 7:30 PM "(external)Hungarian Cultural Center":http://www.culturehungary.org 447 Broadway 5th Floor New York, NY 10012 FREE to the Public!     Péter Nádas is one of Hungary's leading writers and a major figure in European life and letters. Susan Sontag called his ??A Book of Memories?? "the greatest novel written in our time." To celebrate the release of his critically acclaimed new book, ??Fire and Knowledge??, BOMB Magazine is proud to co-sponsor the author's first appearance in the U.S. in over a decade with a book launch, reception, and conversation with Susan Rubin Suleiman, award-winning author of ??Crisis of Memory and the Second World War?? (Harvard University Press, 2006). Read BOMB's interview with Nádas, conducted by Davis Kovacs, from our "(external)100th Anniversary Issue":http://bombsite.com/issues/100/articles/2918. And don't miss Nádas speak at the New York Public Library on November 9, at 7 PM. Visit the "(external)The New York Public Library":http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/pep/peplist.cfm for more info and to purchase tickets, or call (212) 930-0855.     <hr/> h1. BOMBLive! at SculptureCenter: h2. In the Open: Art in Public Spaces Krzysztof Wodiczko interviewed by Giuliana Bruno   h3. Join BOMB Magazine for the first in a series of staged interviews between architects, urban theoreticians, and artists working in the public realm.   !!11913<!!   Monday, October 29, 7 PM "(external)SculptureCenter":http://sculpture-center.org/ 44-19 Purves St. Long Island City, NYC FREE to the Public!   *Krzysztof Wodiczko*, Director of the Center for Art, Culture, and Technology at MIT, animates architecture and public monuments by projecting stories and histories onto them. In this way, technology becomes an apparatus for projecting the self outward, for the collection of memory. Set in the midst of the body politic, his art acts as an instrument of knowledge. *Giuliana Bruno*, author, cultural theorist and professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard will interview the artist. _This event is being co-sponsored by "(external)Art21_.":http://www.pbs.org/art21/artists/wodiczko/     h1. BOMBLive! NATHAN ENGLANDER & RIVKA GALCHEN In Conversation   !!11901<!!   <hr/> *Sunday, September 30 1:30 PM Brooklyn Public Library FREE to the Public!* Read their "(external)web-exclusive conversation":http://www.bombsitebeta.com/issues/0/articles/2982.   Join us for a FREE *BOMBLive!* event at the *Brooklyn Public Library* on *Sunday, September 30th*, as authors *Nathan Englander* (??The Ministry of Special Cases??, Knopf, April 2007) and *Rivka Galchen* (??Atmospheric Disturbances??, FSG, June 2008) pick up on stage where they left off on the page in the first of BOMB's "(external) web-exclusive interviews":/issues/0/articles/2982. The two novelists will discuss the art of writing, pop culture, and real and fictional Argentinas, as part of the Brooklyn Public Library's Dweck Auditorium grand opening weekend. The Brooklyn Public Library is located at: 1 Grand Army Plaza Brooklyn, NY 11238 "(external)Directions to the Brooklyn Public Library":http://www.brooklynpubliclibrary.org/ For more information, contact Paul W. Morris at (718) 636-9100, x104.     <hr/> h1. BOMBLive! A.M. HOMES & FRANCINE PROSE In Conversation   !!11907<!!   *September 16 4:00pm The Court Room Historic Borough Hall FREE to the Public*   Award-winning authors *A.M. Homes* and *Francine Prose* read from their latest works, ??The Mistress's Daughter?? and ??Reading Like a Writer??, and discuss the overlap where memoirs, histories, and novels meet in this conversation presented by *Bomb Magazine’s* Editor-in-Chief *Betsy Sussler*. _Part of the 2nd Annual Brooklyn Book Festival._ Stop by Booth #28 at the Brooklyn Book Festival to buy the new issue of *BOMB Magazine* before it hits newsstands, and to enter to win a Vintage Issue Raffle of *BOMB*. For more information, contact Paul W. Morris at (718) 636-9100, x104.   <hr/> h2. BOMB Magazine and PARK LIT *August 1st 6:30pm Tompkins Square Park Central area, entrance: 7th St. btw. Aves. A & B FREE* *BOMB Magazine’s 100th issue is now on newsstands!* Join us for an evening of readings and festivities as we celebrate the summer and 26 years of publishing original poetry and fiction! Look no further than *BOMB* for your summer literary fix with a night of free magazine giveaways, subscription raffles, and readings by three talented readers: *Ed Park* is a founding editor of ??The Believer?? and the former editor of the ??Voice Literary Supplement??. His first novel, ??Personal Days??, will be published by Random House in 2008. *Lore Segal* is the winner of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award, the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, and the Carl Sandburg Award for Fiction. She is the author of the novels ??Other People’s Houses?? and ??Her First American?? (both available from The New Press), and several books for children. She lives in New York City. *Lynne Tillman* is the author of four novels, three collections of short stories, one collection of essays, and two nonfiction books. Tillman's novel, ??No Lease on Life??, was a New York Times Notable Book of 1998 and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her novel, ??American Genius: A Comedy??, was published by Soft Skull Press last year. For more information, contact Paul W. Morris at (718) 636-9100, x104.   <hr/> h2. BOMB's 100th Issue Celebration Reading! *Sunday, June 3 7–9 PM KGB Bar 85 East 4th St. FREE* Join the Editors of *BOMB Magazine* as they celebrate *26 years* of publishing original poetry and fiction with a reading from their special 100th issue (can you believe it?!). With *free magazine giveaways, subscription raffles*, and other hijinx, you’re sure to get something out of it. Readers include: *Jill Bialosky* is the author of the acclaimed novel ??House Under Snow?? and the two collections of poetry, ??The End of Desire?? and ??Subterranean??. Her poems and essays have appeared in the ??New Yorker?? and ??O, The Oprah Magazine??. Her novel ??The Life Room?? will be published by Harcourt this August. She is an editor at W.W. Norton & Company and lives in New York City. *Rivka Galchen* completed her M.D. at Mt. Sinai in 2003 and her MFA at Columbia in 2006. She’s the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Fellowship in Fiction, a Robert Bingham Fellowship for Fiction Writers, and a Columbia University Writing Instructor Fellowship. Her first novel will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux next spring. *Ed Park* is a founding editor of ??The Believer?? and the former editor of the ??Voice Literary Supplement??. His first novel, ??Personal Days??, will be published by Random House in 2008. For more information, contact Paul W. Morris at (718) 636-9100, x104.   <hr/> h1. BOMB Magazine Presents: h2. BookExpo America — Brooklyn Style! *Friday, June 1st 7–10 PM powerHouse Arena 37 Main St., DUMBO, Brooklyn F to York, A/C to High St. http://www.powerhousearena.com/* Please join *BOMB Magazine* and other Brooklyn-based indie literary publishers as they co-host the premiere BEA party of 2007! Free drinks, free food, and great music from *The Misshapes*. Celebrate with indie publishers such as ??A Public Space??, Akashic Books, Archipelago Books, *BOMB Magazine*, ??Cabinet Magazine??, Soft Skull Press, and ??Tin House??. Hosted by powerHouse Books. RSVP/Info: bea@powerHouseBooks.com For more information call (718) 666-3049, x5 26

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