BOMB 124/Summer 2013
Read short fiction by Catherine Lacey. Word Choice presents fiction and poetry every Friday.
Andrew Sean Greer on time travel and the living of life in his new novel The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells.
Álvaro Enrigue’s “Scenes from Family Life” is a collection of linked stories, “micro-novels,” and vignettes that builds to a vertiginous climax.
L. Annette Binder on her debut collection, Rise, and the role of myth in her work.
Word Choice features original works of fiction and poetry. Read three stories by James Yeh with art by Dominic Fortunato, selected by Peter Moysaenko and Daniel Moysaenko.
Katie Peyton on the satisfying artifacts of truth in Kristopher Jansma’s The Unchangeable Spots of Leopards
Elaine Lustig Cohen on the late Alvin Lustig and the art, and archiving, of the book jacket.
Word Choice features original works of fiction and poetry. Read an excerpt from Karl Ove Knausgaard’s forthcoming fictionalized memoir, My Struggle.
Word Choice features original works of fiction and poetry. Read an excerpt from J.M. Ledgard’s forthcoming novel, Submergence.
Word Choice features original works of fiction and poetry. Read Luis Negrón’s short story, The Chosen One.
Chris Gisonny on the rhythms of language in Peter Dimock’s George Anderson: Notes for a Love Song in Imperial Time.
Word Choice features original works of fiction and poetry. Read an excerpt from Scott McClanahan’s So I Went Away.
Sarah Gerard on the calculation of life’s value in Sam Savage’s The Way of The Dog and Joshua Abelow’s Painter’s Journal.
Teddy Wayne on tween-speak and the titular child star of his novel The Love Song of Jonny Valentine.
Word Choice features original works of fiction and poetry. Read First Kiss by Clarice Lispector translated from the Portuguese by Rachel Klein.
Paper Clip is a weekly compilation of online articles, artifacts and other—old, new, and sometimes BOMB-related.
Word Choice features original works of fiction and poetry. Read an excerpt from Lars Iyer’s Exodus.
Word Choice features original works of fiction and poetry. Read an excerpt from Amy Fusselman’s The Pharmacist’s Mate.
Word Choice features original works of fiction and poetry. Read “Underfed” by Susan Steinberg.
Word Choice features original works of fiction and poetry. Read “Backyard Man” by Sean Madigan Hoen, selected by Rosie Parker and Rachel Mercer.
Kathleen Alcott on adolescence and her novel The Dangers of Proximal Alphabets.
Word Choice features original works of fiction and poetry. Read a short story by Amy Benson, selected by Alexis Boehmler.
Nick Earhart on the unstable, hallucinatory afterworld in Miranda Mellis’s The Spokes.
Kate Zambreno on the careers and marriages of her modernist Heroines.
Luis Jaramillo on genre-blurring, memory, toast, and his new book, The Doctor’s Wife.
Michael Jeffrey Lee on ugly writing and his short story collection Something In My Eye.
Chris Kraus on the notions of “real life” and freedom in her new novel Summer of Hate.
Dale Peck on how New York ruins itself and his new novel, The Garden of Lost and Found.
Word Choice features original works of fiction and poetry. Read the first chapter of César Aira’s new novel, The Miracle Cures of Dr. Aira, translated from the Spanish by Katherine Silver, selected by fiction editors Rosie Parker and Rachel Mercer.
Gregory Lawless and Robb Todd on happiness, Cormac McCarthy, and Todd’s new collection, Steal Me for Your Stories.
