BOMB 112/Summer 2010
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Carrie Mae Weems has a muse, an avatar, an alter-ego. Photographer Dawoud Bey and Weems discuss how her guide—this stand-in for history—bears witness to race, class, and migration.
On Thursday 2/25 Joe Bradley is opening a two-person show with fellow painter Chris Martin at Mitchell-Innes & Nash. Read on for an interview from summer 2009 by artist (and Joe’s former teacher) Dike Blair.
Dodge and Kahn’s comedy takes the form of high art in lowbrow drag with mythic accoutrements, fringe weirdos, and activist slants. They talked (off- camera) with fellow performer Michael Smith about charged fragility and being abducted by the moment.
Paul Morris reviews The Book of Genesis Illustrated from famed comic artist R. Crumb. He considers its place in Crumb’s career as well as its place in Western history.
In The Loop, his most recent novel in English, Roubaud probes the precision of his memories with mathematical zeal. He generously reminisces here—on his involvement with Oulipo, and much more.
D’Ambrosio wrote of Nam Le’s prize-winning story collection, The Boat, “This book journeys across time and space, history and continents.” The authors roam across the literary terrain of Hemingway, Greene, and an asymptotic ocean.
Fiction for Driving Across America Listen to Frederic Tuten read his short story “The Bar On Tompkins Square Park,” originally published in BOMB 108, the fifth installment in BOMB’s literary podcast series.
Lena Valencia reviews Saïd Sayrafiezadeh’s new book, When Skateboards Will Be Free, in which he recounts his experience growing up poor, American, and Socialist.
Guy Maddin, consummate Winnipegian experimentalist, and Isabella Rossellini, his Scanditalian muse, on what else but their dream-life, mothers and fathers, classical drama, and, yes, melodrama!
Novelist Jon Raymond calls Callahan’s early music as Smog, “gorgeous, literate, and bleak-hearted.” Raymond taps into Callahan’s passion for boxing and influences like DC hardcore and the Meat Puppets.
Young Jean Lee interviews Kelly Copper and Pavol Liška, founders and directors of the Nature Theater of Oklahoma. Their production of Romeo & Juliet runs through 1/17 at The Kitchen.
Dan Wolgers is in his third decade of delivering snapshots of the improbable.
Michael Combs’s sculptures mix the Waspiness of traditional animal mounts with the taboo fetish sexuality of carved wooden birds wearing leather masks, emerging from leather strap-ons, and draped—flaccid—over Winchester gun stocks.
Simmons, as an artist, doubles down. She captures the fiction/truth dialectic as well as anyone, dis-articulating assumptions about the quietly composed and staged images she makes.
WEB EXTRA Hear a recording of Jacques Roubaud reading at the French Embassy in New York on April 4, 2009, as part of the Oulipo in New York festival.
WEB EXTRA Guy Maddin and Isabella Rossellini’s most recent film collaboration, Send Me to the ‘Lectric Chair, available here only . . .
This First Proof contains five poems from Dead Troubadours. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains three images with corresponding stories. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the an excerpt from the novel This Is The House That Horse Built. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains two poems. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poem “Wandermoment.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the short story “Wayward Sleep.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.