BOMB 123/Spring 2013
Artist Tomashi Jackson explores the rhythms of labor and the poetic vernacular of popular culture and visuality in America.
Poet Dean Young on his new collection Bender and making vehicles to another world.
Open up your ears and eyes and turn your art lovin’ on.
Word Choice features original works of fiction and poetry. Read two poems by Ashley Toliver, with art by KellyAnne Hanrahan, selected by Jozeph Herceg.
Director and critic Mark Cousins on conveying the experience of traveling in his film What Is This Film Called… Love? and about the potentials and limitations of film festivals.
Artist Harrell Fletcher reflects on a recent project at Tate and demonstrates the value of participatory engagement and social practice.
Chris Kraus on the notions of “real life” and freedom in her new novel Summer of Hate.
Haleem “Stringz” Rasul talks about the constantly evolving form of street dancing in Detroit—from the jit to b-boy swag.
Christopher DeWeese on writing what you don’t know you know and his new book The Black Forest.
Mary Carlson takes inspiration from religious iconography, demons, and snakes in her latest exhibition, Beautiful Beast.
Start the week in a gallery, end it covered in glitter and blood.
Letourneur discusses her film La vie au ranch, a film that observes, in fine detail, the flowering and dissolution of a group of young women.
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.
It’s cold outside, so warm up your mind this weekend…
In anticipation of the 2012 Poets Forum, our friends at the Academy of American Poets will conduct a series of six-question interviews featuring six different poets leading up to their event this month.
Lee Ann Norman speaks with jazz musician Jason Moran about his multidisciplinary approach to music, collaboration and drawing from many artistic realms for inspiration.
Director Ted Kotcheff discusses his rediscovered Australian film classic Wake in Fright.
Artists Anna Gray and Ryan Wilson make art a family matter.
Feliz Lucia Molina talks with filmmaker Leslie Thornton about the concepts behind her films, X-TRACTS, Jennifer, Where Are You?, and Peggy and Fred in Hell.
Holding you hostage and making you do things since 1981. In a good way.
Gregory Lawless and Robb Todd on happiness, Cormac McCarthy, and Todd’s new collection, Steal Me for Your Stories.
There’s that grin.
Word Choice features original works of fiction and poetry. Read one poem by Thomas Devaney with art by Will Brown, selected by Daniel Moysaenko.
Photographer Todd Hido redefines landscape, toys with perception, engaging viewers in a geography as mysterious as it is often misty.
In anticipation of the 2012 Poets Forum, our friends at the Academy of American Poets will conduct a series of six-question interviews featuring six different poets leading up to their event this month.
Poet Paul Legault on the slippery process of interpretation that informed his new English-to-English translation of Emily Dickinson.
Photographer Berenice Abbott brought motion into the still frame, and brings the visuality of movement to a new show at MIT.
Andrew Savino on seeming versus being in Scott Hutchins’s novel, A Working Theory of Love.
Pamela Cohn talks to Grant Gee, the celebrated filmmaker who directed films about Radiohead, Joy Division, and most recently, W.G. Sebald’s novel, The Rings of Saturn.
