31 YEARS OF THE ARTIST’S VOICE
LITERATURE
REGULAR MISERABLE PEOPLE JOE MENOS THE GREAT PERHAPS
by May 12, 2009
Salvatore Pane reviews Joe Meno’s touching and hilarious novel The Great Perhaps.
PODCASTS
IN SIGHT: INTERVIEW WITH WENDY AND LUCY AUTHOR JON RAYMOND
by May 12, 2009
Montana Wojczuk interviews Wendy and Lucy author Jon Raymond.
ART
ART MINUS GALLERY PERSONAL ABSTRACTION IN SUNSET PARK
by May 11, 2009
The artist-run curatorial project HKJB favors art over concept. Their first show “Personal Abstraction” takes art away from a gallery setting and puts it back into a studio, in an effort to change the way we think about viewing and talking about art.
ART
OUTSPOKEN: JOHN WATERS CELEBRITY IS RIDICULOUS
by May 11, 2009
“In my work, I try to act like the worst press agent in the world, like a failed press agent.” John Waters reflects on the ridiculous nature of celebrity, click through for more!
LITERATURE
SHOPLIFTING FROM ANN BEATTIE: AN INTERVIEW WITH TAO LIN
by May 11, 2009
Emily Nonko interviews writer, blogger, and poet Tao Lin.
ART
POST IMPRESSIONS: THE OPTIMISM OF OBSERVATION
by May 07, 2009
This edition of Post Impressions features painter Julian Kremier.
WORD CHOICE
THE LITTLE PRISON
by May 07, 2009
BOMBlog’s Word Choice features original works of poetry, fiction, and art. This edition of Word Choice, selected by BOMB intern Katherine Sanders, features poetry by Idra Novey and art by Laura Halsey Brown.
Vasko Popa’s “The Little Box” describes an empty space that grows to contain an entire world in miniature. Idra Novey builds on this idea in her series The Little Prison. Although the breathtaking first stanza of the first poem discusses punctuation, all the poems in this series are punctuation-free, giving the feeling that we are floating above and around this self-contained, almost irresistible world of curiosity. The entire series is forthcoming in the American Poetry Review in the fall.
– Katherine Sanders
ART
OUTSPOKEN: CON ARTIST MADOFF COLLECTS MARK KOSTABI PAINTINGS
by May 06, 2009
Kelly Devine Thomas on the stranger sides of Google, and the unlikely combination of Bernie Madoff and Mark Kostabi.
PODCASTS
GARY INDIANA READING CHAPTERS 15–18 OF THE SHANGHAI GESTURE
by May 04, 2009
In celebration of Small Press Month, BOMB Magazine presents a serialized audiobook of The Shanghai Gesture as read by the novel’s author, Gary Indiana—writer, actor, playwright, provocateur, and BOMB Editor-at-Large.