BOMB 111/Spring 2010
ON NEWSSTANDS NOW
ON NEWSSTANDS NOW
Guy Ben-Ner merges family life with literary tropes and texts to produce his videos. The result is comedy colliding with erudite allusion.
Photographer Collier engaged the filmmaker with banter on the allure of buried legends Marie Antoinette and the Mitford sisters, obsolete film stock, and old gay New York.
For Bernstein poetry constitutes in equal measure play of voices and verbal art. Jay Sanders speaks with the poet and essayist upon the release of his volume of selected poems All the Whiskey in Heaven.
Lipsyte’s abrasively funny protagonists, holy schlemiels, according to fellow novelist Christopher Sorrentino, reel between stasis and crisis—never more so than in his latest The Ask. Read an excerpt from their conversation.
Against cinematic representation and a staunch advocate for the real, the Mexican filmmaker is more interested in his actors’ presence than their technique. With José Castillo he discusses why feel-good movies make him feel really bad.
With major roles in over 30 films in the past decade, Patricia Clarkson has transcended the ageist stereotype of the American female actor. The star of Woody Allen’s Whatever Works and the upcoming Cairo Time talks with poet Howard Altmann.
If you’ve heard singer-songwriter David Sylvian’s indelible voice, you’ll share cult guitarist Keith Rowe’s desire to place it. Here they focus on the recent Manafon, their joint journey into the outer limits of popular song.
Three artists converge at Gaines’s LA studio to unpack the paradoxes and challenges of public practices such as Arceneaux’s Watts House Project in Los Angeles and Lowe’s Project Row Houses in Houston.
Joseph Strau challenges Alex Hubbard (and himself) on the “dangerous formalism” in new abstract painting while attending the opening of Besides, With, Against, and Yet: Abstraction and the Ready-Made Gesture. This content is available in print only.
Surrounded by “empty objects longing to be powerful,” Jimbo Blachy confronts Joanna Malinowska’s eclectic and mysterious exhibition Time of Guerrilla Metaphysics at CANADA gallery. This content is available in print only.
Author Minna Proctor contemplates the universe of Sharon Harper’s long-exposure photographs of the starry night sky. This content is available in print only. This content is available in print only.
Listen to a recording of Joshua Furst reading “Black Ice” in the seventh installment of the Fiction for Driving Across America series.
This First Proof contains the short story “An Occurrence at Bernal Dwellings,” winner of BOMB’s Fiction Contest judged by Jonathan Lethem. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains an excerpt from Netsuke: A Novel by Rikki Ducornet. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains five poems by Max Blagg. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the poem “Hmmm” by Clayton Eshleman. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains the short story “May” by Simon Lane. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains three poems by Kimiko Hahn. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.
This First Proof contains three poems by Bill Berkson. For copyright reasons, this content is available in print only.