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BOMB 108/Summer 2009
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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!
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 website or call 718 222 8500.
Contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
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 718.636.9100×104.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
7:00pm–7:45pm
Gallery Bar NYC
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 BOMBLog” 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 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 site.
For questions about this event, contact Paul Morris at 718.636.9100×104.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
2:00–3:00 p.m.
The Morgan Library & Museum
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 PEN’s website for more information about the Festival.
For tickets, buy them online or or call 212.868.4444.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.626.9100×104.
Friday, April 17, 2009
The National Arts Club
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 3×5 inch original, signed drawing by one of 14 amazing artists. Buy your tickets here, and follow the links below to view all the artwork.
Preview the 2009 works in auction!
View the Artists Draw Raffle
artworks and buy a ticket!
For more information about the artwork and to purchase tickets, email or call Kate Montague at Livet Reichard Co. 212.868.8450×205 or kmontague@Livetreichard.com.
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.
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
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.
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 718.626.9100×104.
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.
Martin Wilner’s front cover for BOMB First Proof #103: Journal of Evidence Weekly, vol. 140 (supplement A), 2008, ink on paper. Three-panel fold-out, 6 1/2×9”, 6 7/16×9”, and 6 7/16×9”. Courtesy of Pierogi Gallery.
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.
Read more about BOMB’s First Proof literary supplement.
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 718.636.9100×104.
Martin Wilner’s back cover art from BOMB First Proof #103: Journal of Evidence Weekly, vol. 140 (supplement B), 2008, ink on paper. Two-panel fold-out, 6 7/16×9” and 6 7/16×9”.
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.
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. Read it online now.
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 website.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
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 their website.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
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 their website.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
8:30pm–9:15pm
Pete’s Candy Store
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 EARSHOT, 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 Lit Crawl NYC.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
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 their website.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
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.
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.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
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 718.636.9100×104.
From left: Fatou Diome, Etgar Keret, Nuruddin Farah, Xiaolu Guo
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: Public Lives, Private Lives
Directions to the Brooklyn Public Library
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
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 718.636.9100×104.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 9 p.m.
Joe’s Pub
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, click here
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100 x104.
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 718.636.9100×104.
Sunday, December 2, 2pm
Proteus Gowanus
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 718.636.9100×104.
Sunday, November 11
7 PM
Southpaw
125 Fifth Avenue
Park Slope
Brooklyn, NY 11217
$10 – Buy Tickets: 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 Fall 2005 issue.
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.” Find out more about the series and the event.
Visit the Southpaw website to purchase your $10 tickets.
Wednesday, November 7
7:30 PM
Hungarian Cultural Center
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 100th Anniversary Issue.
And don’t miss Nádas speak at the New York Public Library on November 9, at 7 PM. Visit the The New York Public Library for more info and to purchase tickets, or call (212) 930-0855.
Monday, October 29, 7 PM
SculptureCenter
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 Art21.
Sunday, September 30
1:30 PM
Brooklyn Public Library
FREE to the Public!
Read their web-exclusive conversation.
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 web-exclusive interviews.
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
Directions to the Brooklyn Public Library
For more information, contact Paul W. Morris at (718) 636-9100, x104.
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.
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.
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.
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
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