Emma Rathbone’s debut novel, The Patterns of Paper Monsters, explores male teenage angst, conveying not only a palpable sense of frustration, anger, and apathy, but also the odd humor and stumbling insights, that can accompany the pain of maturation. Jack Palmer talks with the author about how she arrived at Juvie with a pissed-off protagonist, and, like, found his voice, and stuff.

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Under a range of settings and circumstances, Marisa Silver’s characters are all grappling with how to be close to a lover, a parent, a child—accepting the obstacles and unpleasant emotions that come along with intimacy. Silver’s prose is gracefully simple, and its subtlety contrasts the complicated and abstract issues her stories explore. Risa Kahn speaks with the author about the themes of her new short story collection ??Alone With You??—optimism, contradiction, love, and what it means to be close with someone.

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In episode 11 of Phoned-In, BOMB Magazine’s poetry reading by phone podcast, Mairéad Byrne reads from her book, The Best of (What’s Left of) Heaven.

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From her ‘70s publication Radical Software, to her own studio practice, Beryl Korot pushes the line between technology and communication. Watch a video of her work and listen to a podcast of an artist’s talk she gave at the Aldrich Museum.

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Watch one of Minter’s Food Porn commercial slots and listen to a podcast of her speaking about her new monograph at Strand Books in Manhattan.

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Filmmaker Harmony Korine’s latest film, Trash Humpers, follows a gang of geriatric sociopaths through the back alleys of Nashville, TN. BOMB’s Montana Wojczuk sat down with Korine to discuss this unique work.

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Keyboard-to-keyboard and back-to-back, Thomas Bartlett and Nico Muhly shared an island of two piano benches swaying out compositions as one musician.

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Michael Yonkers’ Lovely Gold is a mystifying and beautiful record, all recorded on a hand-built, “four-channel, tube-type,” machine. Yonkers was kind enough to answer some questions for BOMBlog from his home in Minneapolis.

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The Novel: an Alternative History, Beginnings to 1600 is the first part of Steven Moore’s complete history of the prose narrative. Think of it as B.D.Q., or Before Don Quixote.” Justin McNeil delves into Moore’s comprehensive approach to prose’s roots.

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In No Such Thing as Silence: John Cage’s 4’33”, Kyle Gann tackles the experimental composer’s infamous “silent piece” with superb knowledge and skill. Gann happily answered my inquiries via email from Belgrade. Read on…

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