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Issue 105 Fall 2008
THE BOMB BLAST
In this epistolary exchange, novelists Nathan Englander and Rivka Galchen discuss the art of writing, pop culture, and the imagination. BONUS: Watch their BOMBLive! conversation!
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Songbird Jambalaya: Musician and musicologist Ned Sublette talks to “blues growler” Coco Robicheaux, a true Louisiana spirit—a survivor of Katrina and more.
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Gabriela Jauregui talks with Daniel Alarcón and Alex Espinoza, born in Lima and Tijuana, respectively, about how their daring recent novels cross the language barrier, the history/fiction divide, and Icarus’s fall.
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David Levine spoke to director Michael Thalheimer as he prepared to bring his version of Frank Wedekind’s Lulu to New York which just played to rave reviews at BAM. This interview is a part of the Select Equity Series on Theater.
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As part of their “True Mirror” project for the 2008 Whitney Biennial, Dexter Sinister has set up a mirror press office at the Commander’s Room of the 7th Regiment Armory. Visit them in person and read about them here!
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BOMB 104 SNEAK PREVIEW! Filmmaker and installation artist Catherine Sullivan and choreographer Meg Stuart speak of mining the history of the avant-garde tradition and emotional overflow in ensemble-based work.
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Paternostro calls Goldman’s The Art of Political Murder: Who Killed the Bishop? “a surreal and very dark labyrinth.” Her book, My Colombian War, exposes a different side of the Latin American puzzle.
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WEB EXCLUSIVE! Part 1 of 2! Musician turned musicologist Ned Sublette unravels the histories and sounds that shaped New Orleans, our most “American” city. Out now: The World that Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square.
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WEB EXCLUSIVE! Part 2 of 2! 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!
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WEB EXCLUSIVE! Watch a BOMBLive! with authors Honor Moore and Victoria Redel, filmed before an audience at Housing Works Bookstore in New York City.
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WEB EXCLUSIVE! Sarajevo-born, Chicago-based writer Aleksandar Hemon’s recent novel The Lazarus Project mines the condition of living in exile and of being grotesquely pinned between past and present.
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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. Read their exchange now!
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