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WHEN I WAS YOUNG I WAS DEFIANT

June 7, 2010 – 4:22 pm

Waters and Egan and Kramer (oh my) make this week a busy one. Lydia Davis and David Means grace us on Tuesday, and you’ll want to save your Saturday for Elliott Sharp, and bring your invisible dog. Just don’t forget who told you. More…

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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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