BOMB 123/Spring 2013
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.
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.
Clive and Mark Ives describe the history of their groundbreaking experimental band Woo.
Never a day late, always very rich.
Choreographer Douglas Dunn and frequent collaborator Mimi Gross offer insight into Dunn’s pedagogical approach and to his art’s evolution over time
Stars and stripes.
Word Choice features original works of fiction and poetry. Read two poems by Jaswinder Bolina, with art by Scott Hazard, selected by Daniel Moysaenko.
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.
Ryan Sheldon and Victor LaValle dissect the horror and humanity in LaValle’s latest book, The Devil in Silver.
Ari Spool talks to avant-garde filmmaker Nathaniel Dorsky about montage, humanism, and his childhood exploits in film.
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.
Sarah Gerard on life’s closing and Gerald Murnane’s fifth novel, Inland.
Leaves turn, light wanes, temps drop; BOMB never quits.
Ingredients for Keating Sherwin’s paintings? Canvas, brushes, paint, and, of course, cooking utensils.
Maxi Kim on Jarett Kobek’s third book, If You Won’t Read, Then Why Should I Write?, a sobering diagnosis of the collective state of the American mind.
Stop me if you think you’ve heard this one before
Eskor Johnson spends a day in the life of The Love Child.
Word Choice features original works of fiction and poetry. Read “Window,” a short story by J. Robert Lennon, selected by Fiction Editor Rosie Parker.
Holding a Peach, Storm Tharp’s exhibition of new paintings and sculptures, is a study in intimacy.
Rachel Mercer speaks with author Claire Vaye Watkins about her first collection of short stories, Battleborn, and about home, homesickness, and moving on.
Kevin Kinsella discusses the current exhibition on view at the Radiator Gallery, This Is How My Brain Works, which offers a keen curatorial selection of collage art by various artists.
Jeff Nagy on Ariana Reines’s translation of Tiqqun’s Preliminary Materials for a Theory of the Young-Girl.
Scott Davis speaks with Franco Falsini of Sensations’ Fix about what it means to be a musician, the evolution of his sound, and doing what it takes to pay the bills.
Director David France talks about activism, justice, and the ongoing struggle to find meaning, and his new documentary about the AIDS crisis, How to Survive a Plague.
It’s getting heavy around here; we’re trying to keep you organized.
DD Dorvillier on her transnational upbringing, the origins of The Matzoh Factory, and her artistic development.
Word Choice features original works of fiction and poetry. Read two poems by Samuel Amadon, with art by Matthew Brandt, selected by Daniel Moysaenko.
If not today, then today!
E.C. Belli talks to Mary Ruefle about Madness, Rack, and Honey, the many moons of planet Poetry, and naming lipsticks.
