BOMB 123/Spring 2013
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Rachel Kushner’s new novel, The Flamethrowers, is out in April, 2013. Her debut novel, Telex from Cuba, was a finalist for the 2008 National Book Award and the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, winner of the California Book Award, and a New York Times bestseller and Notable Book. It was named a best book by the Washington Post Book Book World, the San Francisco Chronicle, the Seattle Times, the Cleveland Plain Dealer, the Christian Science Monitor, and Amazon.
Hari Kunzru is the author of the novels The Impressionist (2002), Transmission (2004), My Revolutions (2007), and Gods without Men (2011), as well as a short-story collection, Noise (2006). His work has been translated into 21 languages and won him prizes including the Somerset Maugham Award, the Betty Trask Prize of the Society of Authors, a Pushcart Prize, and a British Book Award. In 2003, Granta named him one of its 21 best young British novelists.
Rivka Galchen’s first novel, Atmospheric Disturbances was published in 2008 and named as a finalist for the Mercantile Library’s John Sargent Sr. First Novel Prize, the Canadian Writers’ Trust’s Fiction Prize and the 2008 Governor General’s Award, one of Canada’s most prestigious literary prizes. The New Yorker selected Galchen as one of the top “20 Under 40” fiction writers, and in spring 2011 was the Mary Ellen von der Heyden Fiction Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Galchen received her M.D. from Mount Sinai School of Medicine in 2003. She is a Contributing Editor at Harper’s, and has taught creative writing Columbia University’s graduate writing program.
All events are FREE and open to the public Doors open to Pratt students, faculty and staff at 6PM Doors open to the public at 6:15 PM
Tuesday, January 29th – 6:30 PM Higgins Hall Auditorium 61 St. James Place, Brooklyn
Eve Sussman, internationally acclaimed artist whose work has been featured at Sundance, the Berlinale and the Whitney Museum’s Biennial, will discuss her practice, which incorporates film, video, installation, sculpture, and photography.
Tuesday, February 26th – 6:30 PM ARC Building, Hall E-2 East side of Pratt Institute campus, Brooklyn 200 Willoughby Ave., Brooklyn
“A beautiful, cinematic, intelligent and truly special documentary” -IDFA Jury, Amsterdam on Chico Pereira’s Pablo’s Winter
Acclaimed Spanish director Chico Pereira will discuss the mix of fiction and non-fiction in his latest film, Pablo’s Winter, a minimalist narrative based on real-life people and performed by them, which will be featured opening night at Documentary Fortnight 2013: MoMA’s International Festival of Non-Fiction Film and Media.
In cooperation with Documentary Fortnight: MoMA’s International Festival of Non-Fiction Film
Monday, April 15th – 7:30 PM Higgins Hall Auditorium 61 St. James Place, Brooklyn
Igor Vamos:
“Subversive and diabolically funny” -Rolling Stone magazine review of The Yes Men
Igor Vamos, internationally recognized multimedia artist and co-creator of the award-winning activist group The Yes Men, will discuss the juncture of culture jamming, social activism, performance and video.
Additional support from the School of Art & Design and the Office of the Provost
February 28th, 6:30pm at Blick Art Materials 1 Bond St, NYC
“My work is figurative. The figures I choose have one purpose: they carry the line that I wish to draw. The figures are not symbolic; they don’t represent anyone or anything in particular. They are the perfect excuse to get the first line going. Sometimes it is not the line that starts this domino effect – it can be a color.”
“After that, it’s accident built on accident – a chain reaction of select accidents.” —Ellen Berkenblit
“Inspiration comes in the process of work and is in the work itself. “What if” appears once again and is the general subject matter at the moment. I don’t see the resulting pictures as either perverse or chaste. But either way, everything can be seen as perverse and fantastical and chaste if considered thoroughly enough. It is still a strictly individual sense. Even if general morals exist and are followed by that particular individual, deep down there is a secret (or not secret) floor plan for the comfort zone.” —Dasha Shishkin
Performance Space 122 & BOMB Magazine present four in-depth, interdisciplinary conversations between a COIL ’13 artist and a “non-performance” luminary. SPAN endeavors to reinsert performance into the cultural, economic, and environmental debates coursing through contemporary society, from which it is too often excluded.
Tea Tupajic (check diacritics), Petra Zanki, artists from Croatia have been creating theatre, dance and performance that questions how art should or must function in relationship to social and political responsibility, ethics and the vexed intersection point between ideas of ‘art’ vs ‘culture’. Through his work at Steirischer Herbst (and now as incoming Artistic Director of the Impulse Festival), Florian Malzacher has become a key curatorial voice in Europe. Most recently he created the Truth is Concrete program in Graz – a week-long marathon about political strategies in art, and artistic strategies in politics – inspired by various protest movements around the world in recent years. He is an outspoken voice on the questions artistic practice (for artists, curators, institutions) must deal with in a contemporary society. Joel Whitney co-founded a remarkable online magazine Guernica whose written work on national and global politics and arts has recently appeared in The New York Times, Salon, The Daily Beast, and World Policy Journal. His reporting on the U.S. role in Burma has appeared in The New Republic and The San Francisco Chronicle Magazine. Other work appears in New York Magazine, Courrier International in France, The San Francisco Chronicle Books, NPR and The Village Voice.
Cultural Diplomacy. Soft Power. Social Impact. Ethics and Responsibility. Quoting the Truth Is Concrete description – “What is to be done? Can art help solve problems that politics and society themselves have ignored for so long? Should art be a social or political tool, can it be useful? And why should artists know what to do when nobody else does?”
As institutions we face a funding, audience and political climate that demands from us measurable social impact, benefit that historically was perceived to be something for which artistic and cultural activity was somehow exempt. Artistic ‘quality’ is measured in new ways, and is being deployed in new ways. Work is curated and created within a global system but delivered to very local audiences – can this continue? Business as usual for audiences, artists and those who support them both is no longer an option. This conversation will examine these problems with key participants in this global dialogue currently occurring.
Emily Johnson’s is an artist whose work considers and asks its audience to examine big ideas. Home, place, history. Names. Identity and memory. Here and now she brings a work that was created with multiple regions and communities across the US, but began as a question around her historic and contemporary identity as a Minneapolis based, Alaskan descended Yup’ik native american. Jack Tchen has become one of the US’s leading thinkers in how we consider contemporary cultural identity. He works on understanding the multiple presents, pasts, the futures of New York City, identity formations, trans-local cross-cultural communications, archives, epistemologies and decolonizing Eurocentric ideas, theories, and practices.
Questions of culture and ethnicity have bubbled to the surface of US national identity politics for decades. Here an artist at the cutting edge of her field but working from a place of deep history engages with a theorist of ephemeral, daily cultural change. Immigration, migration, connection to land, home. What is an American identity if it is permeable, in constant cultural flux – while also a signifier of profound connection to a history, location and resource. They both ask: Can America reckon with a past we, the people are “innocent” of?
Jack Tchen is a historian, curator, teacher, dumpster diver, and cultural activist. Professor Tchen is the founding director of the A/P/A (Asian/Pacific /American) Studies Program and Institute at New York University, NYU. He co-founded the Museum of Chinese in America in 1979-80 where he continues to serve as senior historian. In 1991, he was awarded the Charles S. Frankel Prize from the National Endowment for the Humanities (renamed The National Medal of Humanities). He is author of the award-winning books New York before Chinatown: Orientalism and the Shaping of American Culture, 1776-1882 and Genthe’s Photographs of San Francisco’s Old Chinatown, 1895-1905. And he was a principle investigator of “Asian Americas and Pacific Islanders Facts, Not Fiction: Setting the Record Straight” with The College Board (2008). Most recently, he co-curated MOCA’s core exhibition: “With a single step: stories in the making of America” in a new space designed by Maya Lin. Jack is now working on three projects: First, a critical archival study of images, excerpts and essays on the history and contemporary impact of “Yellow Peril” paranoia and xenophobia (Verso, 2013). He’s the senior historian for the upcoming New-York Historical Society 2014 travelling exhibit on the impact of Chinese Exclusion Laws (1882-1968) on America, grappling with the paradox of a nation innocent of its own past. And, his next book: The Chinese Question: Answered and Unresolved will be published when the NYHS exhibit opens.
Computational algorithms increasingly shape how we live. Our behaviors and communications generate mountains of data which algorithms use to make critical decisions about our political, economic and social relations, often without our knowledge. As Kevin Slavin has demonstrated, this transformation isn’t just taking place in cyberspace; it is reconfiguring the material reality of our daily lives, the objects we use, and the physical landscapes in which we live.
The theoretical and artistic consequences of this new era of “big data” are just beginning to be explored. Annie Dorsen’s recent work uses algorithms to create theatre, talk philosophy, scramble narrative and even interpret Shakespeare. She challenges some of our most basic assumptions about live performance, about the connection between language and consciousness, and about what it means to be a human in a digital world.
Kevin Slavin is a pioneer in the comprehension of the impact of math and its algorithmic consequence in our behavior. He is a successful entrepreneur, thinker, teacher in this field and fundamentally understands how this new mathematics shapes our environments – or the ‘physics of culture.’
As an entrepreneur, Kevin has successfully navigated and integrated the areas of gaming, new media, technology, and design. As Co-founder of Area/Code in 2005, Kevin was a pioneer in rethinking game design and development around new technologies (like GPS) and new platforms (like Facebook). Area/Code worked to develop next-generation game experiences not only for major consumer product groups like Nokia, Nike and Puma but for media giants such as MTV, Discovery Channel, CBS and Disney. Their Facebook game Parking Wars, commissioned by A&E Television to promote its show of the same name, served over 1 billion pages in 2008. The company was acquired by Zynga in 2011, becoming Zynga New York.
Media/performance artist Brian Rogers and mathematician Pau Atela discuss the idea of “real time” vs “performed time” in relation to Rogers’s COIL performance Hot Box; and the ways in which participation in immersive performance situations can coax, alter and perhaps obliterate our collective experience of the passage of time.
Pau Atela earned his Ph.D. from Boston University. Atela grew up in Mexico and earned a Licenciatura en Matemáticas at the University of Barcelona.
He spent 1989–91 as an instructor at the University of Colorado in Boulder and a sabbatical in the spring of 1995 at the Mathematical Sciences Research Institute at the University of California at Berkeley.
Professor Atela’s interests include: dynamical systems, Hamiltonian mechanics, chaos, computer visualization in mathematics and phyllotaxis.
The Franklin Park Reading Series is throwing a party for Tyrant Books to celebrate the release of two new groundbreaking novels—Blake Butler’s SKY SAW and Sam Michel’s STRANGE COWBOY.
Facebook event page – HERE
Butler, the Atlanta-based literary pioneer and author of iconic works like the memoir Nothing and novel-in-stories Scorch Atlas, and Michel, a fiction writer George Saunders calls “a smart, manic, virtuosic stylist,” will read from their latest work. They’ll be joined by short fiction author and novelist Noy Holland and poet/fiction writer Kendra Grant Malone.
This event is FREE, and we’ll have a $4 pint drink special.
PLUS, what may be the greatest lit raffle of all time: prizes will include a set of 5 Tyrant books (Sky Saw and Strange Cowboy, Brian Evenson’s coveted novella Baby Leg, Michael Kimball’s masterpiece Us, and Eugene Marten’s acclaimed novel Firework), 5 issues of the New York Tyrant lit journal, and subscriptions to BOMB.
LOCATION:
FRANKLIN PARK BAR AND BEER GARDEN 618 St. Johns Place, between Classon and Franklin Avenues Crown Heights, Brooklyn Subway: 2/3/4/5 trains to Franklin Avenue
BLAKE BUTLER is the author, most recently, of the novel Sky Saw. His other books include Nothing, There Is No Year, Scorch Atlas, and Ever. Next year, his third novel, 300 Million, will be released by Harper Perennial. He lives in Atlanta and runs the lit blog HTMLGIANT.
SAM MICHEL is the author of Under the Light, Big Dogs and Flyboys, and Strange Cowboy.
NOY HOLLAND’s collections of short fiction and novellas include Swim for the Little One First (FC2), What Begins with Bird (FC2), and The Spectacle of the Body (Knopf.) She has published work in Conjunctions, The Quarterly, Ploughshares, The Milan Review, Western Humanities Review, The Believer, NOON, New York Tyrant, and Post Road, among others. She was a recipient of a Massachusetts Cultural Council award for artistic merit and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. She has taught for many years in the MFA Program for Poets and Writers at the University of Massachusetts, as well as at Phillips Andover and the University of Florida. She serves on the board of directors at FC2.
KENDRA GRANT MALONE was born in 1984. Her first book of poetry, Everything is Quiet, was published by Scrambler Books in 2010. Her second book of poetry, Morocco, co-written with Matthew Savoca, was published by Dark Sky Books in 2011. She lives in Brooklyn. Read more about her at kendragrantmalone.com.
Sunday, October 7th at 7pm
BookCourt
163 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
BOMB 121: Lucy Raven, Josiah McElheny, Susanna Moore, Kurt Andersen, Miguel Gutierrez, Haim Steinback, Six Organs of Admittance, Sir Richard Bishop, Amy Herzog, Jamie Manrique, Edith Grossman, Pedro Serrano, Ben Ehrenreich, Alain de Botton and many many more
presented by Printed Matter, Inc.
September 28–30, 2012
Preview: Thursday, September 27, 6–9 pm
MoMA PS1
Free and open to the public
Printed Matter presents the seventh annual NY Art Book Fair, from September 28 to 30, at MoMA PS1, Long Island City, Queens. A preview will be held on the evening of Thursday, September 27.
Free and open to the public, the NY Art Book Fair is the world’s premier event for artists’ books, catalogs, monographs, periodicals, and zines presented by more than 200 international presses, booksellers, antiquarians, artists, and independent publishers from over twenty countries.
Over 15,000 artists, book buyers, collectors, dealers, curators, independent publishers, and other enthusiasts attended the NY Art Book Fair in 2011.
Hours and Location
Preview: Thursday, September 27, 6–9 pm
Friday, September 28, 12 pm–7 pm
Saturday, September 29, 11 am–9 pm
Sunday, September 30, 11 am–7 pm
MoMA PS1
22-25 Jackson Avenue at 46th Avenue
Long Island City, NY
Dempsey’s Pub
61 2nd Avenue
Saturday, September 15th
7-7:45pm
MC: Leigh Stein
Judges:
Elissa Bassist – The Rumpus
Jason Diamond – Vol. 1 Brooklyn/Flavorwire
Jozeph Herceg – BOMB Magazine Online Poetry Editor
Poets:
Melissa Broder
Sasha Fletcher
Sarah Gerard
Jennifer L. Knox
Jason Koo
Austin LaGrone
Dorothea Lasky
Dan Magers
Ben Pease
Bianca Stone
Brian Trimboli
M.A. Vizsolyi
Le Poisson Rouge
158 Bleecker Street (between Sullivan and Thompson)
September 13. Doors at 6, show at 7:15
$10 pre-order, $15 at the door
http://www.literarydeathmatch.com/upcoming-events/september-13-2012.html
In this battle of fiction vs non-fiction, writers representing NY-based magazines compete to determine, once and for all, which is the stronger genre. The evening’s writers/combatants are Matt Sumell (Electric Literature), Courtney Maum (BOMB Magazine), Jason Diamond (Vol. 1 Brooklyn), and Tina Rosenberg (The Atavist). And the judges panel features Jon Ronson (The Men Who Stare at Goats), Touré (Who’s Afraid of Post-Blackness?) and Jamie Lee (Last Comic Standing). Hosted by LDM founder, Todd Zuniga.
The North American premiere of Kuichisan directed by Maiko Endo
Gorgeous yet audacious documentary images of Koza—a town in Okinawa, Japan that is not quite Japanese and not quite American—are filmed in 16mm by Sean Price Williams in Maiko Endo’s breathtaking directorial debut.
The World Premiere of Open Five 2 – directed by Kentucker Audley
In his fourth film, Audley reveals himself to be an American director with Rivette’s interests in improvisation and experimentation and Cassavetes’ interest in using his own relationships to plunge the depths of raw emotion. Starring Audley, Caroline White, Jake Rabinbach, and Z Behl.
With a Shorts Program featuring:
The Black Balloon — Directors: Benny and Josh Safdie
Family Nightmare — Director: Dustin Guy Defa
Me the Terrible — Director: Josephine Decker — NY Premiere
Circles — Director: Sam Fleischner — World Premiere
People Parade — Directors: Chris Maggio and John Wilson — NY Premiere
Tickets are on sale August 14th
Monday, July 16th at 7pm
BookCourt
163 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
BOMB 120: Danny Lyon, Susan Meiselas, Eija-Liisa Ahtila, Wayne Koestenbaum, Ralph Lemon, Cass McCombs and Ariel Pink, Tom Murphy, Colm Tóibín, John Newman, B. Wurtz, Brian Evenson, Joshua Cohen, Lynn Melnick and more.
Thursday, June 7 2012 | 7:00pm
Health Sciences Building Room HS121
Long Island University | 1 University Plaza, Brooklyn
Free Admission
RSVP to rsvp@651ARTS.org
Or call: 718.636.4181×2229
Visit www.651ARTS.org for more info.
651 ARTS, in collaboration with BOMB Magazine, is pleased to announce a new 651 ARTS education initiative for local high school students — the Deutsche Bank New Media & Arts Fellowship. The Fellowship is a 6-month program that gives young people access to professionals from all facets of the performing arts world. Along with multiple in-depth technology-based workshops taught by BOMB Magazine staff, the Fellows will be interacting with several accomplished performing arts professionals, experiencing live performance as journalists, and creating stories about these performances using new media technologies. The program interweaves education, production, documentation, marketing and community engagement efforts.
After an intensive application process, 14 students were chosen for the inaugural year from Urban Assembly School of Music and Art, Paul Robeson High School, Brooklyn Community Arts and Media High School, Williamsburg Preparatory High School and Health Professions and Human Services High School. The program is principally supported by Deutsche Bank and in part by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural affairs in partnership with the City Council and Council member Letitia James.
View the students work HERE
And like the New Media and Arts Fellowship on Facebook
Thursday, May 24th at 7pm
Book Court
163 Court Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
Join us at Book Court for a night of intimate conversation with three of New York’s most exciting young sculptors.
Sheila Pepe lives and works in Brooklyn and also serves as Acting Assistant Dean, School of Art & Design, Pratt Institute. She is a 2011 Anonymous Was A Woman award winner and recipient of an Art Matters Grant to produce the last in the series “Common Sense” in Athens, Greece this May. Pepe’s most recent exhibition, “Participant Inc. Presents Pepe & Puntar’s Lucid Dream Lounge with Invited Guests,” opens Sunday, April 29 on the Lower East Side. She is represented by Sue Scott Gallery in New York and will have her first solo show with them in November 2012.
Michelle Segre was born in Tel Aviv, Israel in 1965. Segre was awarded an Arts and Letters Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters in 2011. In addition to solo exhibitions in New York and Los Angeles, Segre has been included in several group shows in the United States and abroad. Her work is included in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and the New Museum of Contemporary Art. She currently teaches at New York University. Segre is represented by Derek Eller Gallery in New York.
Daniel Wiener is an artist living and working in Brooklyn, New York. Though he is known primarily for intense and viscerally arresting sculptures, Daniel also works on watercolors, 3-D animations, and website design. This summer he will exhibit his sculpture outdoors for the first time at LongHouse Reserve in East Hampton, New York.
Daniel, Michelle and Sheila appear in BOMB Issue #119
Tuesday, May 8, 7:00pm
Four & Twenty Blackbirds
439 3rd Avenue (at 8th street)
Brooklyn NY 11215
—RSVP—
Our Readers:
Cate Marvin’s first book, World’s Tallest Disaster, was chosen by Robert Pinksy for the 2000 Kathryn A. Morton Prize and published by Sarabande Books in 2001. Her poems have appeared in The New England Review, Poetry, The Kenyon Review, Fence, The Paris Review, The Cincinnati Review, Slate, Verse, Boston Review, and Ninth Letter. She is co-editor with poet Michael Dumanis of the anthology Legitimate Dangers: American Poets of the New Century. Her second book of poems is Fragment of the Head of a Queen.
Matthea Harvey is the author of Sad Little Breathing Machine and Pity the Bathtub Its Forced Embrace of the Human Form. Her third book of poems, Modern Life was a finalist for the National Book Critics Cirlcle Award and a New York Times Notable Book. An illustrated erasure, titled Of Lamb, with images by Amy Jean Porter, was published by McSweeney’s in 2010.
Karen Weiser is a mother, poet and doctoral candidate at the CUNY Graduate Center, studying early American literature. She is the author of a full-length book of poems, To Light Out, released from Ugly Duckling Presse in 2010, as well as numerous chapbooks. Her poems have appeared in Well Greased, The Poetry Project Newsletter, The Chicago Review, The Brooklyn Rail, The Canary, and others. At the moment she is working on a manuscript in conversation with Herman Melville’s crazily weird novel Pierre.
Matvei Yankelevich‘s books and chapbooks include Boris by the Sea, The Present Work, and Writing in the Margin. His writing has appeared in Action Yes!, Boston Review, Damn the Caesars, Fence, Open City, Tantalum, Typo, Zen Monster, and other little magazines. His translations from Russian have cropped up in Calque, Circumference, Harpers, New American Writing, Poetry, and the New Yorker and in some anthologies. His translations of Daniil Kharms were collected in Today I Wrote Nothing: The Selected Writings of Daniil Kharms.
Sunday, April 29
from 6 – 8 pm
powerHouse Arena in DUMBO
37 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY 11201
FREE!
FSG Originals, Vol. 1 Brooklyn, Tumblr, BOMB and Brooklyn Brewing Co. celebrate the publication of Etgar Keret’s newest book “Suddenly, a Knock at the Door” with an reading, conversation and silent auction. Proceeds from the auction, which includes donations from David Polonsky, Tatia Rosenthal, and Asaf Hanuka, and Something out of Something Art and Design contest winner Joshua Simpson will benefit PEN American Center. Paris Review editor Lorin Stein will be on the hand that evening to interview Etgar Keret on stage. A short reading will follow.
Wednesday, April 18
8pm
The Poetry Project at St. Mark’s Church
131 E. 10th St. (at 2nd Ave.)
NY, NY
Please email your RSVP to kduda (at) loa (dot) org
Join us to celebrate The Library of America’s publication of The Collected Writings of Joe Brainard. Its 450 pages present, for the first time, the full range of Brainard’s writing in all its deadpan wit, madcap inventiveness, self-revealing frankness, and generosity of spirit. With Anselm Berrigan, Lee Ann Brown, Michael Brownstein, Bill Corbett, Donna Dennis, Larry Fagin, Ed Friedman, Brad Gooch, Michael Lally, Keith McDermott, Thurston Moore, Charles North, Ron Padgett, David Shapiro, Johnny Stanton, Tony Towle, Anne Waldman, Lewis Warsh, Edmund White. Reading followed by reception. Co-presented with The Library of America and BOMB Magazine.
Monday, February 6
7–9pm
The powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street, Brooklyn, NY 11201
Please RSVP: rsvp@powerHouseArena.com
FREE
Celebrate Valentine’s Day early with BOMB Magazine for an evening of readings, wine, music, and conversation. Hear novelists, poets, artists, and performers bare their souls through verse, music, and sequential art. Featured readers include Tina Chang, Alexander Chee, Robin Beth Schaer, and Alina Simone, who will also be performing. Myla Goldberg will be presenting a collaborative comics slideshow she created with Jason Little. With some mashup videos and other surprises, this will be a fun-filled night of fiction, poetry, music, and art that will warm your heart as well as your libido. Complimentary drinks will help! Featured readers and performers include:
Brooklyn Poet Laureate Tina Chang was raised in New York City. She is the author of the poetry collections Half-Lit Houses and Of Gods & Strangers (Four Way Books) and co-editor of the anthology Language for a New Century: Contemporary Poetry from the Middle East, Asia and Beyond (W.W. Norton, 2008) along with Nathalie Handal and Ravi Shankar. Her poems have appeared in American Poet, McSweeney’s, Ploughshares, the New York Times among others. Her work has also been anthologized in Identity Lessons, Poetry Nation, Asian American Literature, Asian American Poetry: The Next Generation, From the Fishouse: An Anthology of Poems and in Poetry 30: Poets in Their Thirties. She has received awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund, the Ludwig Vogelstein Foundation, the New York Foundation for the Arts, Poets & Writers, the Van Lier Foundation among others. She currently teaches poetry at Sarah Lawrence College.
Alexander Chee was born in Rhode Island, and raised in South Korea, Guam and Maine. He is a recipient of the 2003 Whiting Writers’ Award, a 2004 NEA Fellowship in Fiction and residency fellowships from the MacDowell Colony, the VCCA, Ledig House, the Hermitage and Civitella Ranieri. His first novel, Edinburgh (Picador, 2002), is a winner of the Michener Copernicus Prize, the AAWW Lit Award and the Lambda Editor’s Choice Prize, and was a Publisher’s Weekly Best Book of the Year and a Booksense 76 selection. In 2003, Out Magazine honored him as one of their 100 Most Influential People of the Year. His essays and stories have appeared in Granta.com, Out, The Man I Might Become, Loss Within Loss, Men On Men 2000, His 3 and Boys Like Us. He has taught at the New School, Wesleyan, Amherst College, the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and Columbia University. He lives in New York City and blogs at Koreanish. Read his interview with Daniel Clowes on BOMBlog.
Myla Goldberg is the author of three novels, including the bestselling Bee Season, which was a New York Times Notable Book for 2000, winner of the Border’s New Voices Prize and a finalist for the Hemingway Foundation/PEN award. Her short stories have appeared in Harper’s and Failbetter, among other places, and her book reviews have appeared in the New York Times and Bookforum.
Jason Little is the author of the graphic novels Shutterbug Follies and Motel Art Improvement Service, as well as the Xeric Award-winning comic Jack’s Luck Runs Out. His work has appeared internationally and in many American comics anthologies. He performs regularly with Carousel, a New York–based multimedia comics slideshow series, and teaches cartooning at the School for Visual Arts.
Robin Beth Schaer’s poems have appeared in Tin House, The Awl, Barrow Street, Denver Quarterly, Washington Square, and Prairie Schooner, among others. She has received fellowships from Djerassi Resident Artists Program, Saltonstall Foundation, and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. She teaches writing at Cooper Union and Marymount Manhattan College, and occasionally ships out to sea as a deckhand aboard the Tall Ship Bounty.
Alina Simone is a singer and writer who lives in Brooklyn. Her music has earned props from places like Pitchfork, Spin, New York Magazine, the New Yorker, NPR, BBC and the New York Times. Her first book of essays, You Must Go and Win, about Russia and indie rock, was published by Faber in June. Her writing has also appeared in the New York Times and the New York Times Magazine, as well as online at McSweeney’s and the Wall Street Journal. Read her story Late Bloomers on BOMBlog.
Sunday, December 18, 2011
7:00pm
KGB Bar
85 East 4th St.
Manhattan, NY
FREE to the Public!
Join BOMB Magazine for a reading at the legendary KGB Bar’s Sunday Night Fiction Series, curated by Suzanne Dottino, featuring BOMB Issue 118 contributors Paul La Farge, Sean Madigan Hoen, and Kirsten Kaschock from their recent works. Come for the literature and then stay for the drinks and mingle with the BOMB staff.
Paul La Farge is the author of two novels: The Artist of the Missing (FSG, 1999) and Haussmann, or the Distinction (FSG, 2001); and a book of imaginary dreams, The Facts of Winter. His short stories have appeared in McSweeney’s, Harper’s Magazine, Fence, Conjunctions, and elsewhere. His nonfiction appears in The Believer, Bookforum, Playboy, and Cabinet. He lives in upstate New York and teaches at Bard College.
Sean Madigan Hoen was raised in Dearborn, Michigan, and currently lives in Brooklyn. His story, Label, won the 2011 BOMB Fiction Prize, judged by Rivka Galchen. It is his first publication. He is at work on a memoir and a collection of short fiction.
Kirstin Kaschock is the author of two books of poetry, A Beautiful Name for a Girl and Unfathoms. Her first novel, Sleight, is available from Coffee House Press. She has earned a PhD in English from the University of Georgia and is currently a doctoral fellow in dance at Temple University. Kirsten lives with her three sons and their father in Philadelphia.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Sunday, December 4th, 2:30–8:00 PM
The Jane Hotel
113 Jane Street
New York, NY
RVSP required: MaoMarathon@bombsite.com
FREE
On December 4, 2011, The New Inquiry, BOMB Magazine, and ForYourArt will host a marathon reading of Frederic Tuten’s visionary first novel, The Adventures of Mao on the Long March, published in 1971. This five-hour festival, free and open to the public, will bring together hundreds of participants, including some of America’s most notable artists, novelists, poets, musicians, and filmmakers, to read the full text of Tuten’s avant-garde masterwork. The Marathon Reading marks the finale of New Directions Publishing’s year-long celebration of their 75th Anniversary.
The Adventures of Mao on the Long March presents the most heroic episode of the Chinese Revolution as mythopoeic odyssey in a radically experimental narrative style that freely mixes fiction, fact, citation, and parody. This literary collage becomes part fable, part newsreel, part pamphlet, part Emerson, part Lichtenstein, and part Godard. While Mao is an icon for for the American literary avant-garde and contemporary visual art, the book’s experimentalism continues to resonate with new readers raised on the mash-up aesthetics of the Internet age.
Featured readers will include Linsey Abrams, Michael Almereyda, Kurt Andersen, Laurie Anderson, Jon Robin Baitz, Véronique Béghain, Ross Bleckner, Thomas Bolt, Cecily Brown, Lori Marie Carlson, Mary Ann Caws, Jerome Charyn, Clifford Chase, Michael Coffey, Lydia Davis, Mónica de la Torre, Jim Drummond, Deborah Eisenberg, Adam Ende, Barbara Epler, Francisco Goldman, Brad Gooch, Francine Gray, Adam Green, John Haskell, Amy Hempel, Oscar Hijuelos, A.M. Homes, Richard Howard, Dakota Jackson, Ben Janse, Wayne Koestenbaum, Bettina Korek, Anne Kreamer, Paul La Farge, Dorothy Lichtenstein, Douglas Light, Phillip Lopate, Karen Marta, Patricia Marx, J.W. McCormack, Edward Mendelson, Gregory R. Miller, Walter Mosley, Linda Norden, Sarah Paley, Robert Polito, Ernesto Quiñonez, Jonathan Rabinowitz, Dawn Raffel, Rachel Rosenfelt, David Salle, Grace Schulman, Wallace Shawn, Aurelie Sheehan, Geoffrey Smith, Iris Smyles, James Suffern, Betsy Sussler, Hannah Tennant-Moore, Lynne Tillman, James Traub, Lily Tuck, Edmund White, and Andrew Zornoza, with a special appearance by Chairman Mao from Pedro Reyes’ Baby Marx project.
The Adventures of Mao on the Long March Reading Marathon is sponsored by Google Places. Check the website for more details, including chances to win some sweet prizes.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Wednesday, November 16th, 10:00 PM–1:00 AM
Immediately following the Awards Dinner and Ceremony
The Cipriani
55 Wall Street
New York, NY
RSVP by November 10 to rsvp@bombsite.com
BOMB is excited to co-host to After-Party for the 62nd Annual National Book Awards, presented by the National Book Foundation. Join BOMB’s staff, contributors, and friends from the art and literary communities as we celebrate the achievements of all the nominees and winners. The After-Party will commence immediately following the Awards Dinner & Ceremony in the upper level balcony of Cipriani. Featuring DJ Rabbi Darkside.
Space is limited, reservations accepted on a first-come, first-served basis.
For questions about this event, please contact Paul W. Morris at 718.636.9100×104.
Wednesday, November 16, 6:30—8:30 PM
powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY
For more information, please call 718.666.3049
Please RVSP: rsvp@powerHouseArena.com
FREE
“These books put the psycho back in psychogeography, and history
seldom gets this personal.”
– Luc Sante, author
BOMB is proud to team up with performer Tav Falco and cultural critic Erik Morse as they present their MONDO MEMPHIS book tour! Come by and listen and Falco and Morse talk with Kenneth Goldsmith, featured in BOMB’s current issue, on topics including fantasy, urbanity, topography, and writing cities and suburbs as sources of imagination, sensuality, horror and architectonics.
MONDO MEMPHIS, an ambitious work on American history and culture, is a dual, 450-page encyclopedic history and psychogeography of the city of Memphis, written by legendary performer Tav Falco and cultural critic Erik Morse. MONDO MEMPHIS incorporates original history of the Gothic South, urban legends, rural fables, and literary clichés that have made the Bluff City simultaneously a metropolis of dreams and a necropolis of terrors.
Tav Falco is an American musician/performer, film-maker, and photographer. He has led the psychedelic rock-and-roll group Tav Falco’s Panther Burns since 1979.
Erik Morse is an American author, rock writer and journalist. He is a contributing writer for Frieze, The Believer, Bookforum, MOJO, and Boston Review. He is the author of Dreamweapon—Spacemen 3 and the Birth of Spiritualized.
Kenneth Goldsmith is an American poet. He is the founding editor of UbuWeb, teaches Poetics and Poetic Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, and is Senior Editor of PennSound.
These minds, mixed together, are bound to be intellectually explosive, so stop by and prepare to be blown away!
For more information about the event, please contact Lena Valencia at 212.604.9074×109 or lena@powerHouseArena.com
Friday, October 21st, 7–9 pm
Fowler Arts Collective
67 West Street #216 (2nd Fl)
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY
RSVP on Facebook
FREE
Please join us for a BOMB reading on Friday, Oct. 21st from 7-9 pm at the Fowler Arts Collective gallery. This 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.
Paul Legault is the author of The Madeleine Poems (Omnidawn, 2010) and The Other Poems (Fence, 2011). He co-edits the translation press Telephone Books and works at the Academy of American Poets. Listen to Phoned-In #13 which features issue #1 of Telephone.
B.C. Edwards lives in Brooklyn. He is the recipient of the 2011 Hudson Prize put out by Black Lawrence Press which will be publishing his collection of short fiction, “The Aversive Clause” in 2012 and his collection of poetry “From the Standard Cyclopedia of Recipes” in 2013. His work can be found in Red Line Blues, The Sink Review, Food-i-Corp, Hobart and others. His short story “Illfit” is being adapted into a piece by the Royal Ballet of Flanders. He is also a Literary Death Match Champion and has the medal to prove it.
Sarah Gerard is a Brooklyn-based writer and contributing editor at Caper Literary Journal. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the St. Petersburg Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Word Riot, elimae, DOGZPLOT, and Prick of the Spindle. She was founding editor of the Studio Review and managing editor of the Homeless Image, a southeast regional street paper. She is an MFA candidate at The New School.
Luke Degnan was born in Irvington, NJ and is the son of a fireman and a philosophy major. As the Blog’s Books Editor at BOMB Magazine, he created and curates Phoned-In, a poetry reading by phone podcast. See Luke’s poems in Elimae, Juked, and West Wind Review, among other places.
Full info about the show can be found here.
Friday, October 21st, 10 pm–1 am
The Wooly
11 Barclay Street
New York, NY
FREE, but you have to RSVP: rsvp@invisible-exports.com
Come on down to celebrate the release of Black Lake’s first record, a 7” vinyl,
Black Lake is an inter-media duo whose performances fuse video, music, poetry, sculpture, and shadows to create an immersive otherwordly environment. Their signature style is at once sensual and gritty, quotidian and exquisite, invoking associations of The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Otto Piene, Tony Oursler, and Pipolotti Rist, Stephen Vitiello and Laurie Anderson. Combining video art, sculpture, songs, sound art, spoken word, movement and shadows, Black Lake’s performances attend to the space between pattern and exploration, building textures with wild guitar sounds, neo-Beat word-scapes, dangling chimes and the haunt of the human voice. The frame and form of their imagery—dapples of light, water rippling, night blossoms, birds mating—draw focus to the tenuous nature of perception. Before, after, between performances, Black Lake’s art installations includes paintings, collages, projected video art, and hanging sculptures made of reflective and refractive materials that interfere with the video light, sending it around the room as well as creating photogram-like images on the walls. The video imagery is mostly stripped down to the bare essentials of light, color and movement and is mostly derived from nature, specifically light as it interacts with nature. The art installations can be set up and removed quickly as a pop-up environment for their performances or can remain in an art space with Black Lake entering one or more times to perform over the course of the installation.
The night’s festivities include videos by Lisa Kirk, Robert Melee, Bill Morrison, Laurie Olinder
Performances by Lizzy Yoder, Charlotte Hendrickson, Black Lake
and DJs Mr. Moustache and The Bengala
Full info about the show can be found here. We hope to see you there!
September 29–October 2, 11 am–7 pm
Preview: Thursday, September 29, 6–9 pm
MoMA PS1.
22-25 Jackson Avenue
FREE
Head over to MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, for the 6th Annual NY Art Book Fair presented by Printed Matter. BOMB will be one of over 200 exhibitors from 20 countries showcasing its publications, including artists’ books, contemporary art catalogs and monographs, art periodicals, and artist zines. Exhibitors include booksellers, antiquarian dealers, artists, independent publishers and international press from more than 20 countries.
Check out BOMB’s table on the third floor, #P04, 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, now considered collectors items! There will be special discounts, free posters, and other treats too. BOMB editors will be around throughout the fair, so please come and say hello!
Full info about the fair can be found here.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Sunday, September 18th, 2011
Brooklyn Borough Hall
209 Joralemon Street
FREE to the public!
Swing by the BOMB booth #29 at the Brooklyn Book Festival to check out the latest fall issue of BOMB #117 and chat with staff and editors.
And don’t miss BOMB’s Paul Morris moderating a panel discussion and reading at 1pm entitled, “Apocalypse Now, and Then What?,” with authors Tananarive Due (My Soul To Take), Patrick Somerville (The Universe in Miniature in Miniature), and Colson Whitehead (End Zone), who will be discussing iterations of the end of the world as we know it and that means for their characters. It’s a free ticketed event, but seats are limited, so act fast!
For more information about the Festival, visit their website here.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Nick Flynn and Rivka Galchen go head to head at BOMB-aoke 2010!
September 10, 2011, 7:00 PM
Bowery Electric (21+)
327 Bowery
Join the editors of BOMB Magazine and some special guests for the second stop of LitCrawl NYC, with the return of live BOMB-aoke! Help us re-enact classic interviews from BOMB’s 30 years in a karaoke-style format. Channel your inner Sam Lipsyte being interviewed by Christopher Sorrentino or pretend to be Jennifer Egan talking shop with Heidi Julavits. We’ll provide dozens of scripts for you to choose from, you bring the theatrics!
The best performance wins a free vintage issue of BOMB worth $100! Runners-up get a free subscription. And everyone gets a copy of BOMB!
Special celebrity author guest judges to be announced, so stay tuned for more information.
For more info about Lit Crawl NYC and a full schedule, visit their site here.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Wednesday, August 17
c/o The Maidstone
207 Main St.
East Hampton, NY
Featuring Surf N’ Turf 2, limited-edition crayfish poster by Michael Williams.
The original artwork will be for sale during the evening.
4:00 – 6:00 pm
$75 per person for cocktails,
Swedish hors d’oeuvres,
and limited-edition poster
4:00 – 9:00 pm
$150 per person for cocktails,
Swedish dinner,
and limited-edition poster
Benefiting BOMB, the artist’s voice since 1981.
RSVP 1.631.324.5006 Press #1
or crayfish@companyagenda.com
If you can’t make the Summer celebration,
but would like to make a donation to BOMB, click here!
Wednesday, July 27
6:30–9pm, performances at 7:30
powerHouse Arena
37 Main St.
DUMBO, Brooklyn
FREE!
Beer has been lovingly provided by Brooklyn Brewery.
Join the editors of BOMB Magazine and the contributors to the summer issue for an evening of readings, performances, and chilling out near the DUMBO waterfront. Raffles and poster give-aways and other surprises too!
Have a free drink on us, chat with BOMB staff, and enjoy the literary stylings of writers Nicholas Elliott, Sarah V. Schweig, and Simon Van Booy. Featuring special ukulele/guitar performances by Obie Award–winning actor Scott Shepherd and playwright/director Richard Maxwell, of the band Reena Spaulings, and formerly of the bands Rickie ‘n’ the Croatians, the Lunar Rays, and Ernest and Sincere, among others.
Featuring a video mashup of vintage BOMB layouts by digital-media artist David Olson, plus special guest DJ to be announced.
This event is free. The evening’s program will feature:
Nicholas Elliott was raised in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and lives in Woodside, Queens. His plays have been performed in Luxembourg, France, and Denmark. He is a correspondent for French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma and the company manager for the theater company New York City Players. His poems appear in BOMB’s summer literary supplement, First Proof.
Richard Maxwell is a playwright and director living in New York. He is the artistic director of New York City Players. A volume of his plays from 1996–2000 has been published by Theatre Communications Group. His most recent play, Neutral Hero, premiered in May at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels and recently toured Europe. Maxwell interviewed actor Scott Shepherd for BOMB’s summer issue.
Sarah V. Schweig’s poems have appeared in Boston Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Western Humanities Review, and Verse Daily. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Columbia University, where her manuscript was recipient of the David Craig Austin Memorial Award. Her chapbook, S, is available through Dancing Girl Press. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her poems appear in BOMB’s summer literary supplement, First Proof.
Scott Shepherd is a New York–based actor. Most recently, Shepherd took on the roles of two characters in The Wooster Group’s production of Tennessee Williams’s Vieux Carré. His performance as Nick Carraway in Elevator Repair Service’s acclaimed Gatz, for which he delivered most of the narration in the nearly seven-hour production, earned him a 2011 Obie Award. Shepherd was interviewed by playwright and director Richard Maxwell in BOMB’s summer issue.
Simon Van Booy is a New York-based novelist and short story writer born in London and raised in rural Wales. He has published two collections of stories: The Secret Lives of People in Love (2007), and Love Begins in Winter (2009), which won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. He has also edited three books of philosophy: Why We Fight, Why We Need Love, and Why Our Decisions Don’t Matter. His novel Everything Beautiful Began After is just out from Harper Perennial. His conversation with author Siri Hustvedt appears in BOMB’s summer issue.
Please RSVP to rsvp@powerhousearena.com.
Contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100 ×104.
Are you in the Bay Area? Then Let’s Make-Out! (or just meet-up)
Monday, June 27th
6:00-9:00 PM
The Make-Out Room
3225 22nd Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
FREE // Open to the Public
Please join the editors of BOMB and Guernica Magazine for an evening of talk, drinks, raffles, and other surprises in San Francisco’s Mission District. You’ll have the opportunity to mingle with both readers and recent contributors, as well as writers and artists alike, all at the legendary Make-Out Room. We’ve got the whole joint reserved from 6–9pm, and we want to meet you! There’ll be snacks and drink specials for early arrivals, not to mention some special give-aways and such.
Please introduce yourselves to us and tell us about what you do—and how you do it. We’re curious to hear from San Franciscans! So bring your friends and tell your colleagues about this rare Bay Area convergence of two NYC-based independent art and literary magazines.
Two great indy magazines, one great city—it’s the trifecta you won’t want to miss.
BOMB Magazine
Guernica Magazine
Afterward, please stay for the stylings of DJ Purple Karaoke at 9pm (no cover), it’ll be hot! But don’t take our word for it:
Awarded “Best Karaoke” 2008 by SF Weekly: “Effortlessly sexy…”
“Best Purple Singalong” 2009 by the Bay Guardian: “The Ultimate Karaoke Dance Party! With Live Sax & No Slow Songs: Dancin’, and Singin’, and Movin’ to the Groovin!”
Thursday, April 28th
6:30 PM
The New York Society Library
Members Room
53 East 79th Street
New York, NY, 10075
Tickets: $10 in advance/$15 at the door
Non-members please call or email Events office: 212-288-6900×230 or events@nysoclib.org
Join host Sally Dawidoff for a special evening of refreshments, conversation, readings, video, and more showcasing two great literary magazines:
Electric Literature is a year-old quarterly short-story anthology whose mission is to use new media and innovative distribution to return the short story to a place of prominence in popular culture.
BOMB is a quarterly magazine whose aim is to deliver the artist’s voice through the 21st century as a multi-platform brand. The magazine has been publishing conversations between artists, writers, actors, directors, musicians, and architects, as well as First Proof, the magazine’s literary supplement, for thirty years.
Sally Dawidoff’s poems have been published widely, most recently in the New Haven Review. She teaches a poetry workshop in New York City.
BOMB Magazine
The Writing Life @NYSOCLIB
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Sunday, April 17th
2:30 PM
The Cooper Union
Rose Auditorium
41 Cooper Sq
New York, NY, 10003
Tickets: Free
Hosted by Monica de la Torre (USA/editor at BOMB Magazine)
Featuring: Eric Chauvier (France/anthropologist), Serge Michel (Switzerland/reporter and writer), Alexander Waterman (USA/composer), Heriberto Yepez (Mexico/poet).
If borders intrinsically divide and separate, they also can be highly stimulating for the imagination. This panel will address how art, culture, intellectual trade and insights manage to negotiate, mitigate, and supersede borders. Serge Michel traveled the world documenting the Chinese expansion in Africa and reporting on the shift in Iranian society. Anthropologist Eric Chauvier defends the beauty he sees in often stigmatized peri-urban areas. Composer Alexander Waterman is the author of a new version of Perfect Lives by Robert Ashley, Vidas Perfectas, an opera in Spanish set on the border between Mexico and the USA. This border is the source of inspiration for Tijuana-based writer Heriberto Yepez, whose essays, fiction, and poetry explore the many facets of their relationship between the two countries.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
7:00-9:00 PM
The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street
New York, NY 10011
Curated by Alexis Georgopoulos and Clinton Krute.
Join BOMB Magazine’s BOMBlog for an evening of music and video art—new, old and in-between. Sound + Vision explores a history of interaction between audio and video artists, between moving image and music. Featuring live collaborations between established and emerging musicians and artists, as well as several rarely screened pieces and excerpts of filmmaker Matt Wolf’s upcoming film on the invention of the teenager, Sound + Vision highlights the cycle of inspiration that exists among artists working in different time-based media.
The evening’s program will feature:
MATT WOLF
Matt Wolf is the director of Wild Combination, the acclaimed documentary about the queer avant-garde cellist and disco producer Arthur Russell. He is currently working on Teenage, a film about the invention of modern teenagers based on a book by the British punk author Jon Savage. Here, he presents a compilation of footage from the work-in-progress film, compiling images of teenagers dancing between 1900–1945.
TONY MARTIN
Since the early 1960’s, Tony Martin has devoted himself to visual composing in time, using simultaneous projected images in motion, often using liquid projection, hand painted 2”x2” slides programmed for cross-dissolving, 16mm film, and projected “pure” light. His landmark work at the San Francisco Tape Center—Martin was the first to project images for a live performance of Terry Riley’s “In C”—stand as early testament to his love of “painting in time” and to his involvement with music. He has worked intensively with Pauline Oliveros, Morton Subotnick, Ramon Sender, David Tudor, and choreographers such as Anna Halprin, and Merce Cunningham.
ARP
New York–based composer/artist Alexis Georgopoulos makes liminal, minimal music, most often with analog synthesizers and, increasingly, classical stringed instruments. His recent albums include The Soft Wave (Smalltown Supersound) and FRKWYS III (RVNG), his collaborative album with British composer Anthony Moore. He will perform with a projection of his own film “The Soft Wave,” his collaboration with filmmaker Paul Clipson.
OLIVIA WYATT
New York–based photographer/filmmaker Olivia Wyatt traveled to Ethiopia in 2009. The document she returned with, Staring Into The Sun, which will be released as a DVD by Sublime Frequencies in Spring 2011, documents 13 different tribes in Ethiopia.Wyatt’s work has screened at the Berlinale (Magnum in Motion pieces) , Milano Film Festival (Staring into the Sun), Picknick Im Kino (Seeking the Spirit and Sound Synesthesia), and True/False (Bangkok). Her work has been published in National Geographic, Capricious, Spin, Slate, Tiny Vices, and Elle.
NICK RELPH
Nick Relph is a British artist based in New York City. Recent solo exhibitions include Gavin Browns enterprise, Overduin and Kite and Herald Street. He will show new work at Standard (Oslo) in May.
SAM FLEISCHNER & TONY LOWE
New York City-based filmmaker Sam Fleischner’s Wah Do Dem (2010) garnered awards at the Los Angeles Film Festival, Spokane, and the Reggae Film Festival, among others. He will screen excerpts from his current project, a document of collaboration between underground group Sun Araw and reggae legends The Congos. He will be screening selections from his experimentalcollaborations with Tony Lowe, a musician and filmmaker. After 8 years of making music with bands like skeletons and z’s, Tony moved towards filmmaking when he and Sam collaborated on an experimental documentary, Below The Brain.
DRIPHOUSE with CAMILLA PADGITT–COLES
Camilla Padgitt-Coles is a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist working with sound and visuals as a combined medium. She is currently working on live projections for an adaptation of The Tempest, slated to debut at The Andy Warhol Museum in 2012. She also plays in the band Future Shuttle, which has an upcoming 12” to be released on Intercoastal Artists, and has performed live visuals as a collaboration with the bands Blondes, Teengirl Fantasy, and The Holy Experiment. Daren Ho is a musician and graphic designer based in Brooklyn, New York. He plays as Driphouse and is a former member of the Iowa City band Raccoo-oo-oon. He has recorded releases under different guises for Digitalis, Not Not Fun, NNA, and has a release forthcoming on the Root Strata label.
PAUL CLIPSON with NICKY MAO
Paul Clipson is a San Francisco–based filmmaker who often collaborates with sound artists and musicians on live performances, films and installations. His work has screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Cinémathèque Française and in the NYFF Views From The Avant Garde program. Nicky Mao is a Brooklyn–based musician, producing solo work under the title Hiro Kone. She has collaborated numerous times in live settings with ARP, most notably for Doug Aitken’s film Migration. She is also a multi-instrumentalist, member of the band Up Died Sound and formerly of the group Effi Briest.
RODRIGO TROMBINI PIRES
Brazilian video artist Rodrigo Trombini Pires, also known as Sid Seed, recently created a video to accompany the music of German musician Harald Grosskopf, whose album Synthesist has just been reissued by NY label RVNG INTL. He will present two short video pieces.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
7:00-10:00 PM
Marlborough Chelsea
545 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10001
Access: RSVP required
RSVP: April Hunt at april@sparkplug-pr.com
Entry: Free
BOMB Bash 2011 celebrates BOMB’s mission of delivering the artist’s voice with a program that considers conversation as collaboration, where artists are invited to collaborate as groups to create unique pieces produced specifically for this solo evening at Marlborough Chelsea. Collaborations include:
Artist/Videomaker/Writer Brandon Downing & artist Deville Cohen
Artist Franklin Evans, dancer Niall Noel Jones & playwright Paul David Young
Art collective BLVCK America & actor/writer Joshua Seidner
Art collaborative Lovett/Codagnone & artist Raul Martinez
Artist Joyce Kim & actress Katharina Stenbeck
Artist Rashaad Newsome & Co., baritone Stefanos Koroneos
Also in celebration of 30 years of BOMB, there will be a Build Your Own BOMB station in which guests may select articles, from back issues of magazines, they are most interested in. Those articles will be Xeroxed and stapled together with a specially designed cover by Tom Otterness.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
7:00pm
192 Books
192 Tenth Avenue
New York City
In Players, Tina Barney expands her subject matter to include fashion, performers, and actors, as well as her own circle of friends. In her two previous books, Barney chose to look at families in America and their milieu and then carried on this examination of families in Europe. Now she combines commercial assignments dating back as far as 1988, with editorial, fashion, and portraiture. Whether performing publicly or privately, they are all “players”. Players is edited and designed by Chipp Kidd with text by Michael Stipe, and published by Steidl. Tina Barney has contributed to BOMB Magazine as an interviewer and interviewee.
Michèle Gerber Klein is a trustee of BOMB Magazine, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Museum, and the Alliance Francaise. She writes frequently about art and fashion and is currently researching a book project on the last tapes of legendary designer Charles James.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Monday, January 31, 2011
7:00pm
Half King
505 W 23rd St
Manhattan, NY
FREE to the Public!
RSVP on Facebook
Join BOMB Magazine for a reading at the Chelsea institution Half King for the Monday Reading Series, curated by Clay Ezell, featuring authors Justin Taylor, Dorothea Lasky, Ben Mirov and Luke Degnan. Come for the words and then stay for the drinks, and mingle with the BOMB staff.
Justin Taylor is the author of the novel The Gospel of Anarchy, and the story collection Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever. He is also co-editor of The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in journals, magazines and Web sites, including Bookforum, the Believer, and Oxford American. His website is http://www.justindtaylor.net/
Dorothea Lasky is the author of AWE and Black Life, both out from Wave Books. She is also the author of several chapbooks, including Poetry is Not A Project (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). She currently lives in New York City.
Ben Mirov grew up in Northern California. He is the author of Ghost Machine (Caketrain, 2010) and the chapbooks I is to Vorticism (New Michigan Press, 2010), Collected Ghost (H_NGM_N, 2010), and Vortexts (SUPERMACHINE, 2011).
Luke Degnan was born in Irvington, NJ and is the son of a fireman and a philosophy major. As the Blog’s Books Editor at BOMB Magazine, he created and curates Phoned-In, a poetry reading by phone podcast. See Luke’s poems in Elimae, Juked, and West Wind Review, among other places.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Last minute cancellation: Heidi Julavits is unable to attend so her story will be read by a BOMB Editor.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
7:00pm
KGB Bar
85 East 4th St.
Manhattan, NY
FREE to the Public!
Join BOMB Magazine for a special holiday reading at the legendary KGB Bar’s Sunday Night Fiction Series, curated by Suzanne Dottino, featuring authors Heidi Julavits, John Reed, and Zach Samalin reading from their recent works. Come for the literature and then stay for the drinks, mingle with the BOMB staff (who might even entertain you with some re-enactments from BOMB’s vintage interviews from the ‘80s and ‘90s).
Heidi Julavits is the author of three novels, most recently, The Uses of Enchantment. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a founding co-editor of The Believer.
John Reed is author of the novels A Still Small Voice, The Whole, and Snowball’s Chance, as well as the play All the World’s Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare. His new novel, Tales of Woe, is forthcoming from MTV press. He is the books editor of The Brooklyn Rail and is a member of the board directors of the National Book Critics Circle.
Zach Samalin, a writer from Brooklyn, is working on a doctorate in English at CUNY Graduate Center, and teaches at the City College of New York.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
7:30pm
Greenlight Bookstore
686 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY
FREE to the Public!
RSVP on Facebook
Come on out to BOMB’s neck of the woods, Greenlight Bookstore in Ft. Greene, Brooklyn. Join the editors of BOMB for a series of literary readings by issue contributors Barbara Browning, Christian Hawkey, and Kim Rosenfield. Hang around afterward and chat with the magazine’s editors and help support our friendly neighborhood indy bookstore, right around the corner from BOMB’s HQ.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
8:15pm–9:00pm
Katra Lounge
217 Bowery St., NYC
FREE to the Public!
RSVP on Facebook
Join authors Rivka Galchen & Nick Flynn and the staff of BOMB Magazine for the last stop of LitCrawl NYC, with the much-anticipated return of live BOMB-aoke!
Help us re-enact classic interviews from BOMB’s 30 years in a karaoke-style format. We’ll provide the scripts, you bring the theatrics!
Channel your inner Chuck Close interviewing Kiki Smith (issue #49) or pretend to be Tim Roth and Steve Buscemi gushing about Brad Pitt (issue #59). You too can impersonate Frances McDormand discussing her fake breasts with Willem Dafoe (issue #55)....
Rivka, Nick, and some very special guest will be the judges.
UPDATE Katra Lounge is offering 2 for 1 drink specials til 9!!
The best performance wins a free vintage issue of BOMB worth lots of dough! Runners-up get a free subscription. And everyone gets a copy of BOMB!
For more information about the LitCrawl NYC, and for the full schedule, visit their site.
For questions about this event, contact Paul Morris at 718.636.9100×104.
FEATURING:
Title TK
Gunn Truscinski Duo
LA BIG VIC
Noveller
With Steve Keene’s paintings of vintage BOMB covers for sale, commissioned exclusively for the BOMB Bash.
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Glasslands Gallery
289 Kent Ave.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Doors: 8pm
Admission: $10/21+ (includes free issue of BOMB!)
Title TK
An art world supergroup…We aren’t at liberty to disclose the names involved, but we can promise that you’ll be blown away.
Gunn Truscinski
Steve Gunn (Guitar) and John Truscinski (Drums), live in Brooklyn and
have been playing together for almost a decade in various forms and collaborations. They have solidified their duo exchange by honing in on their instruments and simplifying their discourse. Both have toured the U.S. and Europe extensively. Recently, they recorded an album at Black Dirt Studios which will be released in the Fall of 2010 on Three Lobed Recordings.
Noveller
The solo project of Brooklyn-based guitarist and filmmaker Sarah Lipstate. She has performed in Rhys Chatham’s Guitar Army, and as a member of Glenn Branca’s 100 guitar ensemble. Noveller has toured supporting Xiu Xiu, the Jesus Lizard, Man Forever, and Emeralds. She’s just released Desert Fires, her full-length, on Saffron Recordings.
LA BIG VIC is an up-and-coming Brooklyn-based four-piece. Their HEYO cassingle (that’s a single on a cassette) released on Whip Casettes, was recently praised by Pitchfork Media as “absolutely cavernous, with a pretty sweet violin line” on their Forkcast blog.
Steve Keene is an extraordinarily prolific Brooklyn based artist whose work has been featured in numerous publications as well as on album covers by rock groups like Pavement, The Silver Jews, Merzbow and Surf City.
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Hey folks! BOMB will be out in Denver this week for AWP, will you? Swing by our table #A3, in exhibit hall A, and say hello to BOMB’s Monica de la Torre and Paul Morris. We’ll be giving away free flash drives throughout the weekend, courtesy of Tribeca Gear & GametimeGeeks.com, so keep checking back for your lucky chance to nab one.
Get great deals on back issues, plus get a FREE POSTER on Saturday when you sign up for a subscription, specially priced for AWP attendees. Take your pick between “The Wick” by Lamar Peterson (see image above) or “Parting Shots” by David Kramer (here: http://bombsite.com/issues/0/articles/3358)
We’re going to party like it’s $1.99…See you there!
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
El Museo del Barrio 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, 2010
6:30–8:30pm
El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue (at 104th St.)
New York
Echo Eggebrecht
Thursday, December 10, 2009, 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 here.
For more information, and to purchase a complete set, call 718.636.9100×106.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 7pm
BookCourt
163 Court St (at Dean St.)
Brooklyn, NY
718.875.3677
BookCourt
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 718.636.9100×104.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
6:00pm–7:00pm
The Dark Room
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 site.
For questions about this event, contact Paul Morris at 718.636.9100×104.
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/
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 718.636.9100×104.
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, 2009
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, 2009
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, 2008, 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, 2008
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, 2010
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, 2008
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, 2008
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, 2008
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, 2008, 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, 2008
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, 2008, 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, 2008
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, 2007
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, 2007
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, 2007
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, 2007
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, 2007
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, 2007
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, 2007
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, 2007
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 1, 2007
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