BOMB 123/Spring 2013
An excerpt from the novel Marlene, by Mariarosa Sclauzero. This article is only available in print.
An excerpt from Geneviève Letarte’s Raucous Sun, translated from French by Mary Beach. This article is only available in print.
An excerpt from the novel Burma, titled “Horse Crazy,” by Gary Indiana. This article is only available in print.
Unexpected relationships unfold in Family, by New York author Brad Gooch. This article is only available in print.
An anthropologist afflicted with malaria, an incestuous brother and sister, a story bound by blood, titled “Blood Disease,” by Patrick McGrath. This article is only available in print.
Novelist Nancy Lemann crafts languorous Louisiana dramas in her two books, Lives of the Saints, and The Ritz of the Bayou. Here, she discusses being a Jew in the south, the future of her characters, and the lingering memory of the Civil War.
An addiction to sleeping pills and nearly poisoned by her husband, one woman’s story unravels, “The Sleeping Pills of the World (From the Desk of Bonnie Silvers),” by Harry Kondoleon. This article is only available in print.
An excerpt from the novel Burma, “Love Isn’t Living, Life Doesn’t Live” by Gary Indiana. This article is only available in print
A short story in five sections, titled “Five Portraits of Hannah Burden,” by Bradford Morrow. This article is only available in print.
On the illusion of appearances, a short story titled “Vacation” by Ameena Meer. This article is only available in print.
A photographer’s journey through Belfast to Liverpool, “The Colorist,” by Susan Daitch.
An epistolary romance, “Return to Sender,” by Klaus Kertess. This article is only available in print.
Julian Barnes was awarded the prestigious Booker Prize for his novel The Sense of an Ending. He spoke with Patrick McGrath in 1987 about sex, Flaubert, and being obsessed with obsessions.
A life lived to the hilt and cut short at the edge of a road, “The Hilt” by Gordon Lish. This article is only available in print.
An excerpt from the novel Burma, “Borrowed Times,” by Gary Indiana. This article is only available in print.
When the ridiculous snowballs and is mistaken for attempted suicide, “Executrix,” by Barry Yourgrau. This article is only available in print.
A brief scene for the stage featuring two characters discussing traveling friends, “Where You Are Not” by Stuart Spencer. This article is only available in print.
Though he is anxious to shirk the labels bestowed upon him by critics and fans alike, Steve Erickson’s surreal prose has been compared to the work of Pynchon and Márquez. He talks to James Mx Lane after the publication of his novel Rubicon Beach.
Mona Simpson’s new novel, My Hollywood, comes out from Knopf on 8/3. In this 1987 interview, the young writer discusses her first novel with Ameena Meer.
A French woman ponders the plight of America with her American boyfriend, “Money” by Joel Rose. This article is only available in print.
An excerpt from the novel Burma, “You Tell Me and We’ll Both Know,” by Gary Indiana. This article is only available in print.
An excerpt from the opening pages of the novel Haunted Houses by Lynne Tillman. This article is only available in print.
“Rape by the Father (Thavai Speaks),” Chapter One from Empire of the Senseless, by Kathy Acker. This article is only available in print.
Three short stories, “Robert Smithson Does Some Impressive Talking To An Idiot Who Just Trailed A Beam Of Light,” “Meeting Andrea,” and “Meeting Andrea Again,” by Jim Carroll.
Janet Hobhouse discusses her various books with Bruce Wolmer — November, Dancing in the Dark and Everybody Who Was Anybody: A Biography of Gertrude Stein—and the differences between “American” and “English” writing.
Losing close friends amidst AIDS anxiety, “Burmese Days,” from a novel in progress, by Gary Indiana. This article is only available in print.
Disillusioned musings on airtravel, titled “X≠Y,” by Susan Daitch. This article is only available in print.
Authors Martin Amis and Patrick McGrath discuss Amis’s novel, Money, a black comedy set in New York and London, featuring the misadventures of a large and ugly filmmaker named John Self, a man “addicted to the 20th century.”
A trip to Queens for some pills to deal, “Merry Christmas, Dr. Title,” by Eileen Myles. This article is only available in print.
Famed writer, editor, filmmaker, and publisher Charles Henri Ford speaks of his early years in Paris, his theory of collage, and how he came to obtain a nude photograph of Robert Mapplethorpe and Patti Smith.
