BOMB 124/Summer 2013
Gregory Crewdson’s photographs of expansive dioramas recall Duchamp, Emerson, and the American suburbs. The documentary Gregory Crewdson: Brief Encounters is in limited release now.
Artist Lorna Simpson has turned from photography to film, creating three-dimensional installations on voyeurism, betrayal and desire. She has returned to photography for her show, Gathered, up at the Brooklyn Museum through Aug. 21.
Writers Allan Gurganus and Donald Antrim fax and phone this raucous conversation on sex, love and laughter during the AIDS epidemic, the subjects of Gurganus’s novel Plays Well with Others.
Louis Auchincloss has chronicled the lives of America’s upper class for over fifty years. Critical, mannered and witty, he discusses his book, The Atonement and Other Stories, with philosopher David Carrier.
Poet Marie Howe’s collection What the Living Do is an homage to her brother, John. Victoria Redel talks with her about love and loss.
Rilla Askew’s first novel, The Mercy Seat, stems from her family’s stories of the migration west to Oklahoma. This novel tracks the legacy of that journey: the violence, the clash of native and European cultures and the pioneers.
English actor Rupert Graves appeared in five films in the fall of 1997: Intimate Relations, Mrs. Dalloway, Bent, Different For Girls and The Revenge Comedies. American actress Nicole Burdette figures out how he got there.
Out on the road, Los Lobos’s Louis Pérez and King Changó’s Andrew Blanco get down on ska, Godzilla and growing up Latino in the new America.
Paula Vogel’s play, How I Learned to Drive, has won a slew of awards for its honesty, compassion and profound humor. The actress Mary-Louise Parker, who played the role of L’il Bit, now gets to direct, this time an interview.
This First Proof contains the short story “A Strange Kind of Brain Damage.” Translated by Donald R. Janssen and Jian Zhang. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains a video projection in a bathtub, Ebb by Amy Jenkins. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
A tower-like paint, plaster, paper, wood and glass sculpture, A Brief History of Paint and Plaster by Emil Lukas. Featuring a written reflection by Not Vital. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from Jesus Saves, “Sandy”. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the short story “Leaving Berlin.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from Separations. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
Anne Landsman was born and raised in South Africa. Her new novel The Rowing Lesson is available now from Soho Press. This is an excerpt from her debut novel The Devil’s Chimney. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poems “Subway,” “Ghost of Christmas Past,” and “Reading Keats in Rome.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
Two silver prints, Impossible Figure II and Sperm of Angels by Bill Hayward. This article is only available in print.
This First Proof contains the poems “Elegy for the Harris Theatre,” and “Tulip.” For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains images of three water color and gouache works on paper by Walton Ford which are accompanied by a short essay on Ford’s work by Jeffrey Eugenides. For copyright reasons this content is available in print only.
Bill Arning explores Keith Mayerson’s many projects, from a 1994 retelling of Pinocchio to the illustrated novel Horror Hospital to “iconoscapes” such as his painted depiction of Star Wars’s Death Star.
