BOMB 123/Spring 2013
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of this video interview: Ned Smyth interviewed by Keith Sonnier in the summer of 2009, part of In the Open: Art & Architecture in Public Spaces.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Dean Wareham, of the revered Galaxie 500, Luna, and now Dean & Britta, on curating and scoring 13 Most Beautiful People, a new DVD of Warhol Screen Tests.
WEB EXCLUSIVE So Yong Kim’s second feature film Treeless Mountain vaulted her to the fore of a group of young filmmakers being called Neo-Neo Realists. She spoke with Ryan Fleck, co-director of the recent film Sugar.
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.
Check out the premiere issue of BOMB Magazine as it looked in 1981, and see why we’re a legend 30 years later!
WEB EXCLUSIVE Painter Trevor Winkfield and writer Maggie Paley meet at Winkfield’s studio to discuss Winkfield’s graphic, disquieting, and bizarrely ceremonial paintings.
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of this audio interview: Robert Polito and David Trinidad in conversation at Columbia College’s Film Row Cinema, Chicago in April 2009.
Listen to a BOMBLive! This podcast features a conversation between poets Robert Polito and David Trinidad, recorded at Columbia College’s Film Row Cinema, Chicago, in April 2009.
WEB EXCLUSIVE My Brightest Diamond’s 2008 album A Thousand Shark’s Teeth vaulted operatic bandleader Shara Worden into the pop-music spotlight. Listen to a live recording of the band performing at Joe’s Pub in New York City.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Josephine Meckseper’s sparkling display cases combine vintage consumables with references to protest movements. Through these installations and appropriated advertisements she probes how nostalgia and romanticism compromise dissent.
Watch a BOMBLive! This video features an interview of playwright Young Jean Lee by playwright Richard Maxwell, filmed at the Mabou Mines Theatre, New York City, on November 5, 2008. It is part of The Select Equity Group Series on Theater.
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of this video interview: Young Jean Lee interviewed by Richard Maxwell at Mabou Mines Theatre, New York City in November 2008.
Watch a BOMBLive! This video features an interview of poet and translator Peter Cole by fellow MacArthur recipient Edward Hirsch, filmed at the Brooklyn Public Library on October 22, 2008.
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of this video interview: Peter Cole interviewed by Edward Hirsch at the Brooklyn Public Library in October 2008.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Rhys Chatham, legendary composer and performer, talks about the downtown music scene with guitarist Alan Licht.
Watch a BOMBLive! This video features an interview of writer Jonathan Lethem by BOMB Editor-In-Chief Betsy Sussler, filmed at the Cleveland Institute of Art on October 2, 2008.
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of the video interview: Jonathan Lethem interviewed by Betsy Sussler at The Cleveland Institute of Art in October 2008.
Watch a BOMBLive! This video features a conversation between novelists Nathan Englander and Rivka Galchen, filmed at the Brooklyn Public Library on September 30, 2007.
WEB EXCLUSIVE Weeks before the end of Simic’s Laureate run, he and fellow poet Tomaž Šalamun caught up with each other over the phone.
BOMB and Park Lit joined forces on July 17, 2008 for a reading in NYC’s Tompkins Square Park. Listen to audio clips of readings by literary contributors to our Summer 2008 issue, BOMB 104.
WEB EXCLUSIVE A National Book Award finalist for his most recent novel The Lazarus Project, Sarajevo-born, Chicago-based writer Aleksandar Hemon mines the condition of living in exile and of being grotesquely pinned between past and present.
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of the video interview: Honor Moore and Victoria Redel in conversation at Housing Works Bookstore in June 2008.
Watch a BOMBLive! This video features a conversation between novelists Honor Moore and Victoria Redel, filmed at Housing Works Bookstore in NYC on June 30, 2008.
WEB EXCLUSIVE In Part 2 of this interview, musician turned musicologist Ned Sublette unravels the histories and sounds that shaped New Orleans, our most “American” city. Click here to read Part 1 of the interview!
WEB EXCLUSIVE Musician turned musicologist Ned Sublette unravels the histories and sounds that shaped New Orleans, our most “American” city. Part one of a two-part interview.
Watch a BOMBLive! This video features an interview of director Tom Kalin by director and BOMB contributor Bette Gordon, filmed at Columbia University on May 9, 2008.
Read a BOMBLive! edited transcript of this video interview: Tom Kalin interviewed by Bette Gordon at Columbia University in May 2008.
A video screening and conversation presented in cooperation with Art:21: Art in the 21st Century, Season Four. Writer and filmmaker Michael Almereyda joins An-My Lê for a conversation and Q&A session.
Listen to audio clips of readings from BOMB’s 100th Issue Reading on August 1, 2007 at Park Lit in Tompkins Square Park, featuring literary contributors to our Summer 2007 issue, BOMB #100.
