I encountered Damian Rogers for the first time at this year’s US Poets in Mexico workshop. She was walking around Mérida, Mexico, frazzled, trying to track down her luggage that had been lost by the airline she’d flown in on a few days earlier. Despite her lack of possessions in a strange city, she made smart-ass remarks with me in the van to Chichen Itza and talked poetry and music.
You’ve been waiting all winter and it’s finally here…BOMB 111, our spring issue! You can read teasers and hear audio excerpts (Patricia Clarkson, T.J. Wilcox, Charles Bernstein, Sam Lipsyte, Edgar Arceneaux) over on BOMBSITE, but you’ll have to check it out on newsstands for the real deal, which includes an eerily pixelated film still from Carlos Reygadas on the cover, Artist on Artist essays featuring Alex Hubbard, Joanna Malinowaska, and Sharon Harper, and First Proof with fiction from Rikki Ducornet, poetry by Kimiko Hahn, and art by Allen Frame. Click through for a preview.
Another week, another BOMBalert brought your way full of past BOMB notables currently making headlines. Click through to check out a handy list featuring info on Rona Pondick’s new show, Mary Gaitskill’s upcoming talk, Atom Egoyan’s intriguing new movie featuring some intriguing actresses, and more. If you’re looking for things to see and do this week, we got your back, dear reader.
Listen to a BOMB podcast! Last Friday Sam Lipsyte appeared at BookCourt to read from his new darkly funny novel, The Ask, just published this March by Farrar, Straus & Giroux. BOMB tagged along to record the event, which was packed with fans and listeners who converged at BookCourt bookstore, located at 163 Court St. in Brooklyn. Subscribe to BOMB’s podcast feed here, or click through to listen right here.
Europe sets the tone with big retrospectives, public art in New York City causes controversy, and Antarctica as artistic inspiration were among the topics in the week’s news. Read on for ArtWeLove’s news digest, now also available in email form—bringing a comprehensive roundup of the week’s art developments to your digital doorstep. If you aren’t signed up, click here. As always, we welcome your feedback at editorial@artwelove.com.
Listen to a BOMB podcast! In the seventh installment in BOMB’s Fiction for Driving Across America series, Joshua Furst reads the short story “Black Ice,” published in BOMB 111’s First Proof literary supplement, along with an excerpt from his novel The Sabotage Café published by Knopf.
On Boerum Palace, Gunn has turned his formidable improvisational chops towards songwriting with results that are as far form the free-form freak-outs of his previous work as they are from traditional singer-songwriter fare. Read more…
Jillian Weise was already the author of two collections of poetry when she began writing The Colony, a novel that is by turns disturbing, beautiful and hilarious.
Like the Pabst Blue Ribbons that Brooklyn-based performance collective Radiohole hands out each evening it takes the stage, the latest Performance By Radiohole is best consumed vigorously, in between more potent substances.
From the archives and across state lines, BOMB on the Scene hopped on New Jersey Transit to visit Paul Henry Ramirez. Since painter Roberto Juarez’s 2007 essay on his work for BOMB’s 25th Anniversary America’s issue, Paul Henry Ramirez has relocated his studio to Hamilton, New Jersey from Greenpoint, Brooklyn. Read more…
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