Tag Archives: A.M. Homes

RECKONING WITH TORTURE: MEMOS AND TESTIMONIES FROM THE “WAR ON TERROR”

October 16, 2009 – 12:37 pm

Ishmael Beah. Photo: Beowulf Sheehan/PEN American Center. Eight years ago, September 11th transformed New York City into a crowded hive of anxiety. Since then, there have been innumerable changes in our lives. The obvious ones include soldiers patrolling streets, bridges, tunnels, transportation hubs, and the now commonplace presence of folding tables and police officers prepared to check bags at subway stations. But there was much more going on than we knew…

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Reckoning with Torture: Memos and Testimonies from the “War on Terror”

October 9, 2009 – 1:32 pm

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Our partners at PEN America are hosting an evening of readings and testimonies about human rights violations on Tuesday, October 13 at 7 pm, with presentations by Paul Auster, Jenny Holzer, Don DeLillo, A.M. Homes, and many others. Click through for more info.

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Culture’s Triumphant Return (…from vacation)

September 9, 2009 – 6:25 pm

Mike Kelley & Michael Smith join forces at Sculpturecenter. The Brooklyn Book Festival is happening this Sunday, Sept. 13 and features an amazing line-up. BOMB will be there with our own event, as will be many past BOMB interviewees: Paul Auster, Jonathan Lethem and Mary Gaitskill (also interviewed 1990) in conversation, Colson Whitehead, A.M. Homes, Richard Price, Francine Prose, Cornelius Eady and Paul Muldoon.There will also be a panel discussion on the late, great Mahmoud Darwish. For those who cannot make it, there is Colm Tóibín’s excellent new novel Brooklyn. Across the Atlantic in London, Richard Nelson has adapted Nabakov’s Lolita into a 90-minute monologue at the National Theatre. A flurry of gallery openings the next few days: Kara Walker at Sikkema Jenkins, Allen Frame at Gitterman Gallery, Maya Lin and Sol LeWitt at PaceWildenstein, Jessica Stockholder at the Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery and Mike Kelley and Michael Smith at Sculpturecenter.

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BOMB’s BookExpo Kick-off Party with Granta Magazine

June 3, 2009 – 4:45 pm

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Thanks to everyone who attended the BOMB-Granta BookExpo Kickoff party at Housing Works Bookstore on May 28, making it the most-talked about event of BEA weekend. Check out all the pics!

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