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Wednesday, November 16, 6:30—8:30 PM
powerHouse Arena
37 Main Street
Brooklyn, NY
For more information, please call 718.666.3049
Please RVSP: rsvp@powerHouseArena.com
FREE
“These books put the psycho back in psychogeography, and history
seldom gets this personal.”
– Luc Sante, author
BOMB is proud to team up with performer Tav Falco and cultural critic Erik Morse as they present their MONDO MEMPHIS book tour! Come by and listen and Falco and Morse talk with Kenneth Goldsmith, featured in BOMB’s current issue, on topics including fantasy, urbanity, topography, and writing cities and suburbs as sources of imagination, sensuality, horror and architectonics.
MONDO MEMPHIS, an ambitious work on American history and culture, is a dual, 450-page encyclopedic history and psychogeography of the city of Memphis, written by legendary performer Tav Falco and cultural critic Erik Morse. MONDO MEMPHIS incorporates original history of the Gothic South, urban legends, rural fables, and literary clichés that have made the Bluff City simultaneously a metropolis of dreams and a necropolis of terrors.
Tav Falco is an American musician/performer, film-maker, and photographer. He has led the psychedelic rock-and-roll group Tav Falco’s Panther Burns since 1979.
Erik Morse is an American author, rock writer and journalist. He is a contributing writer for Frieze, The Believer, Bookforum, MOJO, and Boston Review. He is the author of Dreamweapon—Spacemen 3 and the Birth of Spiritualized.
Kenneth Goldsmith is an American poet. He is the founding editor of UbuWeb, teaches Poetics and Poetic Practice at the University of Pennsylvania, and is Senior Editor of PennSound.
These minds, mixed together, are bound to be intellectually explosive, so stop by and prepare to be blown away!
For more information about the event, please contact Lena Valencia at 212.604.9074×109 or lena@powerHouseArena.com
Friday, October 21st, 7–9 pm
Fowler Arts Collective
67 West Street #216 (2nd Fl)
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY
RSVP on Facebook
FREE
Please join us for a BOMB reading on Friday, Oct. 21st from 7-9 pm at the Fowler Arts Collective gallery. This reading is taking place in conjunction with the art show, The Pinch, in which three local artists share their attempts to articulate something about the value of art in a time of economic hardship. Hear some words. See some art. Taste some ice cold beer.
Paul Legault is the author of The Madeleine Poems (Omnidawn, 2010) and The Other Poems (Fence, 2011). He co-edits the translation press Telephone Books and works at the Academy of American Poets. Listen to Phoned-In #13 which features issue #1 of Telephone.
B.C. Edwards lives in Brooklyn. He is the recipient of the 2011 Hudson Prize put out by Black Lawrence Press which will be publishing his collection of short fiction, “The Aversive Clause” in 2012 and his collection of poetry “From the Standard Cyclopedia of Recipes” in 2013. His work can be found in Red Line Blues, The Sink Review, Food-i-Corp, Hobart and others. His short story “Illfit” is being adapted into a piece by the Royal Ballet of Flanders. He is also a Literary Death Match Champion and has the medal to prove it.
Sarah Gerard is a Brooklyn-based writer and contributing editor at Caper Literary Journal. Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in the St. Petersburg Times, The Brooklyn Rail, Word Riot, elimae, DOGZPLOT, and Prick of the Spindle. She was founding editor of the Studio Review and managing editor of the Homeless Image, a southeast regional street paper. She is an MFA candidate at The New School.
Luke Degnan was born in Irvington, NJ and is the son of a fireman and a philosophy major. As the Blog’s Books Editor at BOMB Magazine, he created and curates Phoned-In, a poetry reading by phone podcast. See Luke’s poems in Elimae, Juked, and West Wind Review, among other places.
Full info about the show can be found here.
Friday, October 21st, 10 pm–1 am
The Wooly
11 Barclay Street
New York, NY
FREE, but you have to RSVP: rsvp@invisible-exports.com
Come on down to celebrate the release of Black Lake’s first record, a 7” vinyl,
Black Lake is an inter-media duo whose performances fuse video, music, poetry, sculpture, and shadows to create an immersive otherwordly environment. Their signature style is at once sensual and gritty, quotidian and exquisite, invoking associations of The Velvet Underground, Sonic Youth, Otto Piene, Tony Oursler, and Pipolotti Rist, Stephen Vitiello and Laurie Anderson. Combining video art, sculpture, songs, sound art, spoken word, movement and shadows, Black Lake’s performances attend to the space between pattern and exploration, building textures with wild guitar sounds, neo-Beat word-scapes, dangling chimes and the haunt of the human voice. The frame and form of their imagery—dapples of light, water rippling, night blossoms, birds mating—draw focus to the tenuous nature of perception. Before, after, between performances, Black Lake’s art installations includes paintings, collages, projected video art, and hanging sculptures made of reflective and refractive materials that interfere with the video light, sending it around the room as well as creating photogram-like images on the walls. The video imagery is mostly stripped down to the bare essentials of light, color and movement and is mostly derived from nature, specifically light as it interacts with nature. The art installations can be set up and removed quickly as a pop-up environment for their performances or can remain in an art space with Black Lake entering one or more times to perform over the course of the installation.
The night’s festivities include videos by Lisa Kirk, Robert Melee, Bill Morrison, Laurie Olinder
Performances by Lizzy Yoder, Charlotte Hendrickson, Black Lake
and DJs Mr. Moustache and The Bengala
Full info about the show can be found here. We hope to see you there!
September 29–October 2, 11 am–7 pm
Preview: Thursday, September 29, 6–9 pm
MoMA PS1.
22-25 Jackson Avenue
FREE
Head over to MoMA PS1 in Long Island City, Queens, for the 6th Annual NY Art Book Fair presented by Printed Matter. BOMB will be one of over 200 exhibitors from 20 countries showcasing its publications, including artists’ books, contemporary art catalogs and monographs, art periodicals, and artist zines. Exhibitors include booksellers, antiquarian dealers, artists, independent publishers and international press from more than 20 countries.
Check out BOMB’s table on the third floor, #P04, and browse vintage back issues, check out the latest fall issue, and buy those rare, hard to find First Proof booklets with fold-out covers, now considered collectors items! There will be special discounts, free posters, and other treats too. BOMB editors will be around throughout the fair, so please come and say hello!
Full info about the fair can be found here.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Sunday, September 18th, 2011
Brooklyn Borough Hall
209 Joralemon Street
FREE to the public!
Swing by the BOMB booth #29 at the Brooklyn Book Festival to check out the latest fall issue of BOMB #117 and chat with staff and editors.
And don’t miss BOMB’s Paul Morris moderating a panel discussion and reading at 1pm entitled, “Apocalypse Now, and Then What?,” with authors Tananarive Due (My Soul To Take), Patrick Somerville (The Universe in Miniature in Miniature), and Colson Whitehead (End Zone), who will be discussing iterations of the end of the world as we know it and that means for their characters. It’s a free ticketed event, but seats are limited, so act fast!
For more information about the Festival, visit their website here.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Nick Flynn and Rivka Galchen go head to head at BOMB-aoke 2010!
September 10, 2011, 7:00 PM
Bowery Electric (21+)
327 Bowery
Join the editors of BOMB Magazine and some special guests for the second stop of LitCrawl NYC, with the return of live BOMB-aoke! Help us re-enact classic interviews from BOMB’s 30 years in a karaoke-style format. Channel your inner Sam Lipsyte being interviewed by Christopher Sorrentino or pretend to be Jennifer Egan talking shop with Heidi Julavits. We’ll provide dozens of scripts for you to choose from, you bring the theatrics!
The best performance wins a free vintage issue of BOMB worth $100! Runners-up get a free subscription. And everyone gets a copy of BOMB!
Special celebrity author guest judges to be announced, so stay tuned for more information.
For more info about Lit Crawl NYC and a full schedule, visit their site here.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Wednesday, August 17
c/o The Maidstone
207 Main St.
East Hampton, NY
Featuring Surf N’ Turf 2, limited-edition crayfish poster by Michael Williams.
The original artwork will be for sale during the evening.
4:00 – 6:00 pm
$75 per person for cocktails,
Swedish hors d’oeuvres,
and limited-edition poster
4:00 – 9:00 pm
$150 per person for cocktails,
Swedish dinner,
and limited-edition poster
Benefiting BOMB, the artist’s voice since 1981.
RSVP 1.631.324.5006 Press #1
or crayfish@companyagenda.com
If you can’t make the Summer celebration,
but would like to make a donation to BOMB, click here!
Wednesday, July 27
6:30–9pm, performances at 7:30
powerHouse Arena
37 Main St.
DUMBO, Brooklyn
FREE!
Beer has been lovingly provided by Brooklyn Brewery.
Join the editors of BOMB Magazine and the contributors to the summer issue for an evening of readings, performances, and chilling out near the DUMBO waterfront. Raffles and poster give-aways and other surprises too!
Have a free drink on us, chat with BOMB staff, and enjoy the literary stylings of writers Nicholas Elliott, Sarah V. Schweig, and Simon Van Booy. Featuring special ukulele/guitar performances by Obie Award–winning actor Scott Shepherd and playwright/director Richard Maxwell, of the band Reena Spaulings, and formerly of the bands Rickie ‘n’ the Croatians, the Lunar Rays, and Ernest and Sincere, among others.
Featuring a video mashup of vintage BOMB layouts by digital-media artist David Olson, plus special guest DJ to be announced.
This event is free. The evening’s program will feature:
Nicholas Elliott was raised in the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg and lives in Woodside, Queens. His plays have been performed in Luxembourg, France, and Denmark. He is a correspondent for French film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma and the company manager for the theater company New York City Players. His poems appear in BOMB’s summer literary supplement, First Proof.
Richard Maxwell is a playwright and director living in New York. He is the artistic director of New York City Players. A volume of his plays from 1996–2000 has been published by Theatre Communications Group. His most recent play, Neutral Hero, premiered in May at the Kunstenfestivaldesarts in Brussels and recently toured Europe. Maxwell interviewed actor Scott Shepherd for BOMB’s summer issue.
Sarah V. Schweig’s poems have appeared in Boston Review, Painted Bride Quarterly, Western Humanities Review, and Verse Daily. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia and Columbia University, where her manuscript was recipient of the David Craig Austin Memorial Award. Her chapbook, S, is available through Dancing Girl Press. She lives in Brooklyn, New York. Her poems appear in BOMB’s summer literary supplement, First Proof.
Scott Shepherd is a New York–based actor. Most recently, Shepherd took on the roles of two characters in The Wooster Group’s production of Tennessee Williams’s Vieux Carré. His performance as Nick Carraway in Elevator Repair Service’s acclaimed Gatz, for which he delivered most of the narration in the nearly seven-hour production, earned him a 2011 Obie Award. Shepherd was interviewed by playwright and director Richard Maxwell in BOMB’s summer issue.
Simon Van Booy is a New York-based novelist and short story writer born in London and raised in rural Wales. He has published two collections of stories: The Secret Lives of People in Love (2007), and Love Begins in Winter (2009), which won the Frank O’Connor International Short Story Award. He has also edited three books of philosophy: Why We Fight, Why We Need Love, and Why Our Decisions Don’t Matter. His novel Everything Beautiful Began After is just out from Harper Perennial. His conversation with author Siri Hustvedt appears in BOMB’s summer issue.
Please RSVP to rsvp@powerhousearena.com.
Contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100 ×104.
Are you in the Bay Area? Then Let’s Make-Out! (or just meet-up)
Monday, June 27th
6:00-9:00 PM
The Make-Out Room
3225 22nd Street
San Francisco, CA 94110
FREE // Open to the Public
Please join the editors of BOMB and Guernica Magazine for an evening of talk, drinks, raffles, and other surprises in San Francisco’s Mission District. You’ll have the opportunity to mingle with both readers and recent contributors, as well as writers and artists alike, all at the legendary Make-Out Room. We’ve got the whole joint reserved from 6–9pm, and we want to meet you! There’ll be snacks and drink specials for early arrivals, not to mention some special give-aways and such.
Please introduce yourselves to us and tell us about what you do—and how you do it. We’re curious to hear from San Franciscans! So bring your friends and tell your colleagues about this rare Bay Area convergence of two NYC-based independent art and literary magazines.
Two great indy magazines, one great city—it’s the trifecta you won’t want to miss.
BOMB Magazine
Guernica Magazine
Afterward, please stay for the stylings of DJ Purple Karaoke at 9pm (no cover), it’ll be hot! But don’t take our word for it:
Awarded “Best Karaoke” 2008 by SF Weekly: “Effortlessly sexy…”
“Best Purple Singalong” 2009 by the Bay Guardian: “The Ultimate Karaoke Dance Party! With Live Sax & No Slow Songs: Dancin’, and Singin’, and Movin’ to the Groovin!”
Thursday, April 28th
6:30 PM
The New York Society Library
Members Room
53 East 79th Street
New York, NY, 10075
Tickets: $10 in advance/$15 at the door
Non-members please call or email Events office: 212-288-6900×230 or events@nysoclib.org
Join host Sally Dawidoff for a special evening of refreshments, conversation, readings, video, and more showcasing two great literary magazines:
Electric Literature is a year-old quarterly short-story anthology whose mission is to use new media and innovative distribution to return the short story to a place of prominence in popular culture.
BOMB is a quarterly magazine whose aim is to deliver the artist’s voice through the 21st century as a multi-platform brand. The magazine has been publishing conversations between artists, writers, actors, directors, musicians, and architects, as well as First Proof, the magazine’s literary supplement, for thirty years.
Sally Dawidoff’s poems have been published widely, most recently in the New Haven Review. She teaches a poetry workshop in New York City.
BOMB Magazine
The Writing Life @NYSOCLIB
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Sunday, April 17th
2:30 PM
The Cooper Union
Rose Auditorium
41 Cooper Sq
New York, NY, 10003
Tickets: Free
Hosted by Monica de la Torre (USA/editor at BOMB Magazine)
Featuring: Eric Chauvier (France/anthropologist), Serge Michel (Switzerland/reporter and writer), Alexander Waterman (USA/composer), Heriberto Yepez (Mexico/poet).
If borders intrinsically divide and separate, they also can be highly stimulating for the imagination. This panel will address how art, culture, intellectual trade and insights manage to negotiate, mitigate, and supersede borders. Serge Michel traveled the world documenting the Chinese expansion in Africa and reporting on the shift in Iranian society. Anthropologist Eric Chauvier defends the beauty he sees in often stigmatized peri-urban areas. Composer Alexander Waterman is the author of a new version of Perfect Lives by Robert Ashley, Vidas Perfectas, an opera in Spanish set on the border between Mexico and the USA. This border is the source of inspiration for Tijuana-based writer Heriberto Yepez, whose essays, fiction, and poetry explore the many facets of their relationship between the two countries.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Tuesday, March 22, 2011
7:00-9:00 PM
The Kitchen
512 West 19th Street
New York, NY 10011
Curated by Alexis Georgopoulos and Clinton Krute.
Join BOMB Magazine’s BOMBlog for an evening of music and video art—new, old and in-between. Sound + Vision explores a history of interaction between audio and video artists, between moving image and music. Featuring live collaborations between established and emerging musicians and artists, as well as several rarely screened pieces and excerpts of filmmaker Matt Wolf’s upcoming film on the invention of the teenager, Sound + Vision highlights the cycle of inspiration that exists among artists working in different time-based media.
The evening’s program will feature:
MATT WOLF
Matt Wolf is the director of Wild Combination, the acclaimed documentary about the queer avant-garde cellist and disco producer Arthur Russell. He is currently working on Teenage, a film about the invention of modern teenagers based on a book by the British punk author Jon Savage. Here, he presents a compilation of footage from the work-in-progress film, compiling images of teenagers dancing between 1900–1945.
TONY MARTIN
Since the early 1960’s, Tony Martin has devoted himself to visual composing in time, using simultaneous projected images in motion, often using liquid projection, hand painted 2”x2” slides programmed for cross-dissolving, 16mm film, and projected “pure” light. His landmark work at the San Francisco Tape Center—Martin was the first to project images for a live performance of Terry Riley’s “In C”—stand as early testament to his love of “painting in time” and to his involvement with music. He has worked intensively with Pauline Oliveros, Morton Subotnick, Ramon Sender, David Tudor, and choreographers such as Anna Halprin, and Merce Cunningham.
ARP
New York–based composer/artist Alexis Georgopoulos makes liminal, minimal music, most often with analog synthesizers and, increasingly, classical stringed instruments. His recent albums include The Soft Wave (Smalltown Supersound) and FRKWYS III (RVNG), his collaborative album with British composer Anthony Moore. He will perform with a projection of his own film “The Soft Wave,” his collaboration with filmmaker Paul Clipson.
OLIVIA WYATT
New York–based photographer/filmmaker Olivia Wyatt traveled to Ethiopia in 2009. The document she returned with, Staring Into The Sun, which will be released as a DVD by Sublime Frequencies in Spring 2011, documents 13 different tribes in Ethiopia.Wyatt’s work has screened at the Berlinale (Magnum in Motion pieces) , Milano Film Festival (Staring into the Sun), Picknick Im Kino (Seeking the Spirit and Sound Synesthesia), and True/False (Bangkok). Her work has been published in National Geographic, Capricious, Spin, Slate, Tiny Vices, and Elle.
NICK RELPH
Nick Relph is a British artist based in New York City. Recent solo exhibitions include Gavin Browns enterprise, Overduin and Kite and Herald Street. He will show new work at Standard (Oslo) in May.
SAM FLEISCHNER & TONY LOWE
New York City-based filmmaker Sam Fleischner’s Wah Do Dem (2010) garnered awards at the Los Angeles Film Festival, Spokane, and the Reggae Film Festival, among others. He will screen excerpts from his current project, a document of collaboration between underground group Sun Araw and reggae legends The Congos. He will be screening selections from his experimentalcollaborations with Tony Lowe, a musician and filmmaker. After 8 years of making music with bands like skeletons and z’s, Tony moved towards filmmaking when he and Sam collaborated on an experimental documentary, Below The Brain.
DRIPHOUSE with CAMILLA PADGITT–COLES
Camilla Padgitt-Coles is a Brooklyn-based multimedia artist working with sound and visuals as a combined medium. She is currently working on live projections for an adaptation of The Tempest, slated to debut at The Andy Warhol Museum in 2012. She also plays in the band Future Shuttle, which has an upcoming 12” to be released on Intercoastal Artists, and has performed live visuals as a collaboration with the bands Blondes, Teengirl Fantasy, and The Holy Experiment. Daren Ho is a musician and graphic designer based in Brooklyn, New York. He plays as Driphouse and is a former member of the Iowa City band Raccoo-oo-oon. He has recorded releases under different guises for Digitalis, Not Not Fun, NNA, and has a release forthcoming on the Root Strata label.
PAUL CLIPSON with NICKY MAO
Paul Clipson is a San Francisco–based filmmaker who often collaborates with sound artists and musicians on live performances, films and installations. His work has screened at the Rotterdam Film Festival, the Cinémathèque Française and in the NYFF Views From The Avant Garde program. Nicky Mao is a Brooklyn–based musician, producing solo work under the title Hiro Kone. She has collaborated numerous times in live settings with ARP, most notably for Doug Aitken’s film Migration. She is also a multi-instrumentalist, member of the band Up Died Sound and formerly of the group Effi Briest.
RODRIGO TROMBINI PIRES
Brazilian video artist Rodrigo Trombini Pires, also known as Sid Seed, recently created a video to accompany the music of German musician Harald Grosskopf, whose album Synthesist has just been reissued by NY label RVNG INTL. He will present two short video pieces.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
7:00-10:00 PM
Marlborough Chelsea
545 West 25th Street
New York, NY 10001
Access: RSVP required
RSVP: April Hunt at april@sparkplug-pr.com
Entry: Free
BOMB Bash 2011 celebrates BOMB’s mission of delivering the artist’s voice with a program that considers conversation as collaboration, where artists are invited to collaborate as groups to create unique pieces produced specifically for this solo evening at Marlborough Chelsea. Collaborations include:
Artist/Videomaker/Writer Brandon Downing & artist Deville Cohen
Artist Franklin Evans, dancer Niall Noel Jones & playwright Paul David Young
Art collective BLVCK America & actor/writer Joshua Seidner
Art collaborative Lovett/Codagnone & artist Raul Martinez
Artist Joyce Kim & actress Katharina Stenbeck
Artist Rashaad Newsome & Co., baritone Stefanos Koroneos
Also in celebration of 30 years of BOMB, there will be a Build Your Own BOMB station in which guests may select articles, from back issues of magazines, they are most interested in. Those articles will be Xeroxed and stapled together with a specially designed cover by Tom Otterness.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
7:00pm
192 Books
192 Tenth Avenue
New York City
In Players, Tina Barney expands her subject matter to include fashion, performers, and actors, as well as her own circle of friends. In her two previous books, Barney chose to look at families in America and their milieu and then carried on this examination of families in Europe. Now she combines commercial assignments dating back as far as 1988, with editorial, fashion, and portraiture. Whether performing publicly or privately, they are all “players”. Players is edited and designed by Chipp Kidd with text by Michael Stipe, and published by Steidl. Tina Barney has contributed to BOMB Magazine as an interviewer and interviewee.
Michèle Gerber Klein is a trustee of BOMB Magazine, the New Museum of Contemporary Art, the Cooper-Hewitt Smithsonian National Design Museum, and the Alliance Francaise. She writes frequently about art and fashion and is currently researching a book project on the last tapes of legendary designer Charles James.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Monday, January 31, 2011
7:00pm
Half King
505 W 23rd St
Manhattan, NY
FREE to the Public!
RSVP on Facebook
Join BOMB Magazine for a reading at the Chelsea institution Half King for the Monday Reading Series, curated by Clay Ezell, featuring authors Justin Taylor, Dorothea Lasky, Ben Mirov and Luke Degnan. Come for the words and then stay for the drinks, and mingle with the BOMB staff.
Justin Taylor is the author of the novel The Gospel of Anarchy, and the story collection Everything Here is the Best Thing Ever. He is also co-editor of The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in journals, magazines and Web sites, including Bookforum, the Believer, and Oxford American. His website is http://www.justindtaylor.net/
Dorothea Lasky is the author of AWE and Black Life, both out from Wave Books. She is also the author of several chapbooks, including Poetry is Not A Project (Ugly Duckling Presse, 2010). She currently lives in New York City.
Ben Mirov grew up in Northern California. He is the author of Ghost Machine (Caketrain, 2010) and the chapbooks I is to Vorticism (New Michigan Press, 2010), Collected Ghost (H_NGM_N, 2010), and Vortexts (SUPERMACHINE, 2011).
Luke Degnan was born in Irvington, NJ and is the son of a fireman and a philosophy major. As the Blog’s Books Editor at BOMB Magazine, he created and curates Phoned-In, a poetry reading by phone podcast. See Luke’s poems in Elimae, Juked, and West Wind Review, among other places.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Last minute cancellation: Heidi Julavits is unable to attend so her story will be read by a BOMB Editor.
Sunday, December 12, 2010
7:00pm
KGB Bar
85 East 4th St.
Manhattan, NY
FREE to the Public!
Join BOMB Magazine for a special holiday reading at the legendary KGB Bar’s Sunday Night Fiction Series, curated by Suzanne Dottino, featuring authors Heidi Julavits, John Reed, and Zach Samalin reading from their recent works. Come for the literature and then stay for the drinks, mingle with the BOMB staff (who might even entertain you with some re-enactments from BOMB’s vintage interviews from the ‘80s and ‘90s).
Heidi Julavits is the author of three novels, most recently, The Uses of Enchantment. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a founding co-editor of The Believer.
John Reed is author of the novels A Still Small Voice, The Whole, and Snowball’s Chance, as well as the play All the World’s Grave: A New Play by William Shakespeare. His new novel, Tales of Woe, is forthcoming from MTV press. He is the books editor of The Brooklyn Rail and is a member of the board directors of the National Book Critics Circle.
Zach Samalin, a writer from Brooklyn, is working on a doctorate in English at CUNY Graduate Center, and teaches at the City College of New York.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Wednesday, October 6, 2010
7:30pm
Greenlight Bookstore
686 Fulton Street
Brooklyn, NY
FREE to the Public!
RSVP on Facebook
Come on out to BOMB’s neck of the woods, Greenlight Bookstore in Ft. Greene, Brooklyn. Join the editors of BOMB for a series of literary readings by issue contributors Barbara Browning, Christian Hawkey, and Kim Rosenfield. Hang around afterward and chat with the magazine’s editors and help support our friendly neighborhood indy bookstore, right around the corner from BOMB’s HQ.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Saturday, September 11, 2010
8:15pm–9:00pm
Katra Lounge
217 Bowery St., NYC
FREE to the Public!
RSVP on Facebook
Join authors Rivka Galchen & Nick Flynn and the staff of BOMB Magazine for the last stop of LitCrawl NYC, with the much-anticipated return of live BOMB-aoke!
Help us re-enact classic interviews from BOMB’s 30 years in a karaoke-style format. We’ll provide the scripts, you bring the theatrics!
Channel your inner Chuck Close interviewing Kiki Smith (issue #49) or pretend to be Tim Roth and Steve Buscemi gushing about Brad Pitt (issue #59). You too can impersonate Frances McDormand discussing her fake breasts with Willem Dafoe (issue #55)....
Rivka, Nick, and some very special guest will be the judges.
UPDATE Katra Lounge is offering 2 for 1 drink specials til 9!!
The best performance wins a free vintage issue of BOMB worth lots of dough! Runners-up get a free subscription. And everyone gets a copy of BOMB!
For more information about the LitCrawl NYC, and for the full schedule, visit their site.
For questions about this event, contact Paul Morris at 718.636.9100×104.
FEATURING:
Title TK
Gunn Truscinski Duo
LA BIG VIC
Noveller
With Steve Keene’s paintings of vintage BOMB covers for sale, commissioned exclusively for the BOMB Bash.
Click to enlarge.
Glasslands Gallery
289 Kent Ave.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Sunday, August 1st, 2010
Doors: 8pm
Admission: $10/21+ (includes free issue of BOMB!)
Title TK
An art world supergroup…We aren’t at liberty to disclose the names involved, but we can promise that you’ll be blown away.
Gunn Truscinski
Steve Gunn (Guitar) and John Truscinski (Drums), live in Brooklyn and
have been playing together for almost a decade in various forms and collaborations. They have solidified their duo exchange by honing in on their instruments and simplifying their discourse. Both have toured the U.S. and Europe extensively. Recently, they recorded an album at Black Dirt Studios which will be released in the Fall of 2010 on Three Lobed Recordings.
Noveller
The solo project of Brooklyn-based guitarist and filmmaker Sarah Lipstate. She has performed in Rhys Chatham’s Guitar Army, and as a member of Glenn Branca’s 100 guitar ensemble. Noveller has toured supporting Xiu Xiu, the Jesus Lizard, Man Forever, and Emeralds. She’s just released Desert Fires, her full-length, on Saffron Recordings.
LA BIG VIC is an up-and-coming Brooklyn-based four-piece. Their HEYO cassingle (that’s a single on a cassette) released on Whip Casettes, was recently praised by Pitchfork Media as “absolutely cavernous, with a pretty sweet violin line” on their Forkcast blog.
Steve Keene is an extraordinarily prolific Brooklyn based artist whose work has been featured in numerous publications as well as on album covers by rock groups like Pavement, The Silver Jews, Merzbow and Surf City.
Proceeds go to support the perspicacious arts and culture coverage brought to you daily on BOMBsite and BOMBlog. We hope to see you there!
Media Sponsor:
For press inquiries and other questions, please contact Lena Valencia at 718.636.9100×108.
Hey folks! BOMB will be out in Denver this week for AWP, will you? Swing by our table #A3, in exhibit hall A, and say hello to BOMB’s Monica de la Torre and Paul Morris. We’ll be giving away free flash drives throughout the weekend, courtesy of Tribeca Gear & GametimeGeeks.com, so keep checking back for your lucky chance to nab one.
Get great deals on back issues, plus get a FREE POSTER on Saturday when you sign up for a subscription, specially priced for AWP attendees. Take your pick between “The Wick” by Lamar Peterson (see image above) or “Parting Shots” by David Kramer (here: http://bombsite.com/issues/0/articles/3358)
We’re going to party like it’s $1.99…See you there!
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
El Museo del Barrio celebrates BOMB Magazine’s 11th annual Americas Issue. Join BOMB’s editors and contributors for an evening of readings, conversations, and multimedia presentations dedicated to Colombia and Venezuela. Featuring Luis Molina Pantin’s narco-architecture photographs, videos by the Caracas-based team Nacimento/Lovera, literary readings by Silvana Paternostro, Luis Enrique Pérez-Oramas, Esperanza Mayobre, Marc Nasdor on Colombia’s Frente Cumbiero/DJ sets by Poodlecannon, and more.
Wednesday, February 10th, 2010
6:30–8:30pm
El Museo del Barrio
1230 Fifth Avenue (at 104th St.)
New York
Echo Eggebrecht
Thursday, December 10, 2009, 6:30–9:00 PM
Nicole Klagsbrun Gallery
526 West 26th Street, #213
New York City
RSVP appreciated by December 10
RSVP@bombsite.com
Please join BOMB and the artists for a one-night only event of the year. 178 signed, original drawings will be available for 60–70% below market value, starting at $300! Buy two, get an additional 20% off…buy three, get an extra 30% off.
Gregory Botts, Joe Bradley, Echo Eggebrecht, Eric Fischl, Karl Haendel, Adam Helms, David Kramer, Keith Mayerson, James Nares, Danica Phelps, David Salle, Billy Sullivan, Jason Tomme
(Italicized names available only as part of a complete set of all 13 drawings).
View and/or purchase individual drawings at current prices online here.
For more information, and to purchase a complete set, call 718.636.9100×106.
Tuesday, November 3, 2009, 7pm
BookCourt
163 Court St (at Dean St.)
Brooklyn, NY
718.875.3677
BookCourt
Literature and theater converge at BookCourt! Join the editors of BOMB Magazine to celebrate the launch of our fall issue, with readings by Christopher Sorrentino and Victoria Redel, featuring a short staged performance of a play by Thomas Bradshaw.
Thomas Bradshaw is the author of numerous plays, including Purity and Strom Thurmond Is Not a Racist. His latest work, The Bereaved, opened in September at the Wild Project. A 2009 Guggenheim fellow, he is currently working on an adaptation of the Book of Job and a play about Queen Catherine. Bradshaw is currently on the faculty at Medgar Evers College.
Victoria Redel is the author of two books of poetry and three books of fiction. Her most recent novel is The Border of Truth. Her novel Loverboy was chosen in 2001 as a Los Angeles Times Best Book and was adapted for a feature film. She is on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College.
Christopher Sorrentino is the author of three books, including the National Book Award finalist Trance. His work has appeared in Conjunctions, Esquire, Harper’s, The New York Times, Playboy, Tin House and many other publications. He lives in Brooklyn.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Saturday, October 17, 2009
6:00pm–7:00pm
The Dark Room
2263 Mission Street (btw. 18th and 19th)
San Francisco
415.401.7987
FREE to the Public!
Join the staff of BOMB Magazine for the first stop in a series of literary events around San Francisco, with the triumphant return of BOMB-aoke!
Come help us re-enact classic interviews from BOMB’s 28 years in a karaoke-style format. Act out Jonathan Safran Foer interviewing Jeffrey Eugenides (BOMB #81), or play Paula Fox from Lynne Tillman’s conversation (BOMB #95). The best performance wins a free vintage issue of BOMB worth lots of dough!
For more information about the San Francisco LitQuake, and for the full LitCrawl schedule, visit their site.
For questions about this event, contact Paul Morris at 718.636.9100×104.
Sunday, September 13th, 2009
BOMB Magazine presents a conversation with critically acclaimed authors Christopher Sorrentino (Trance), Michael Thomas (Man Gone Down), and filmmaker Astra Taylor as moderator. Taylor’s documentary film and newly released book, Examined Life, takes contemporary thinkers out of the ivory tower to discuss philosophical matters in plain speak. In this BOMBLive! conversation, the authors discuss what writing on writers might reveal about such matters: the creative impulse, the relationship between fact and imagination, and the ethics of representation.
Writer and documentary filmmaker Astra Taylor was named one of 25 New Faces to Watch in 2006 by Filmmaker Magazine. Her feature documentaries, Zizek! and Examined Life both premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and are distributed by Zeitgeist Films. The companion book Examined Life: Excursions With Contemporary Thinkers is available from The New Press. She has taught at the University of Georgia and SUNY, New Paltz.
Christopher Sorrentino is the author of three books, including the National Book Award finalist Trance. His work has appeared in Conjunctions, Esquire, Harper’s, The New York Times, Playboy, Tin House, and many other publications. He lives in Brooklyn.
Michael Thomas was born and raised in Boston. He received his B.A. from Hunter College and his M.F.A. from Warren Wilson College. His debut novel, Man Gone Down, won the 2009 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. He teaches at Hunter and lives in Brooklyn.
Our program is at 5PM at the Borough Hall Courtroom, 209 Joralemon Street.
http://www.brooklynbookfestival.org/
Wednesday, July 22, 2009
6:30pm
Tompkins Square Park
Central area, entrance: 7th St. btw. Aves. A & B
FREE
Please join us in celebrating the publication of BOMB’s Summer Issue 108 with a selection of readings from its literary supplement, First Proof, featuring appearances by the following contributing poets and writers:
Hildebrand Pam Dick—is a writer, artist, and philosopher. She lives in New York City. As Mina Pam Dick, she is the author of Delinquent, forthcoming from Futurepoem books in the fall of 2009. Excerpts from Delinquent appeared in the 2008 issue of Tantalum.
Alan Gilbert is the author of Another Future: Poetry and Art in a Postmodern Twilight. His writings on poetry, art, culture, and politics have appeared in a variety of publications, including Artforum, Modern Painters, and the Village Voice; his poems have appeared in the Boston Review, Brooklyn Rail, and Chicago Review, among other places. He lives in New York City and is a 2009 NYFA Fellow.
Raphael Rubinstein’s most recent book is a collection of poems titled The Afterglow of Minor Pop Masterpieces (Make Now). He is a frequent contributor to Art in America and a professor of critical studies at the University of Houston. He lives in New York City.
Matthew Sharpe is the author of the novels Jamestown, The Sleeping Father, and Nothing Is Terrible. His stories and essays have appeared in Harper’s, Zoetrope, McSweeney’s, The Los Angeles Times, Art on Paper, and elsewhere.
Frederic Tuten is the author of the novels The Adventures of Mao on the Long March; Tallien: A Brief Romance; Tintin in the New World: A Romance; Van Gogh’s Bad Café; and The Green Hour. His short fiction has appeared in several literary magazines and art catalogues. He is a Guggenheim Fellow in Fiction and has been given the Award for Distinguished Writing from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives in New York City.
Part of the Park-Lit Summer outdoor reading series co-sponsored by sponsored by Open City, Mr. Beller’s Neighborhood, and the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Come party with the BOMB staff and contributors to Issue 108 and celebrate 28 years of legendary interviews between artists, writers, filmmakers & musicians.
Cabaret performances and aerialists, compliments of Galapagos Art Space!
Galapagos Art Space—now located in DUMBO, Brooklyn—is soon to be the first LEED certified ‘green’ cultural venue in New York City. Galapagos has a 1600 sq ft lake inside our building. Nestled beside Brooklyn Bridge Park, between the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges, and housed in a former horse stable, the new Galapagos Art Space was awarded ‘Best New Art Space’ by New York Press, and was awarded a ‘2009 Building Brooklyn Award’ for art and culture. Galapagos Art Space is located at 16 Main Street in Dumbo, Brooklyn. Visit their website or call 718 222 8500.
Contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
7:00pm–9:30pm
Housing Works Bookstore & Cafe
126 Crosby St.
Free to public with book donation
Join BOMB Magazine and Granta Magazine for a kick-off party to celebrate BookExpo America, happening at the Javitz Center May 29–31.
Drink, eat, and mingle with booksellers, publishers, authors, and magazine folks for a memorable night of literary hijinx, with special guest DJ to be announced.
Free to the public, just bring a book to donate!
RSVP’s a must, email us by May 25 to rsvp@bombsite.com
Wine generously donated by T. Edward Wines, Ltd.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Saturday, May 16, 2009
7:00pm–7:45pm
Gallery Bar NYC
120 Orchard St
(Between Rivington and Delancey)
F train Delancey
FREE to the Public!
Join the editors of BOMB Magazine for the first stop in the second-ever New York LitCrawl, with the much-anticipated return of live BOMB-aoke!
Help us re-enact classic interviews from BOMB’s 28 years in a karaoke-style format. Act out Jonathan Safran Foer interviewing Jeffrey Eugenides (BOMB #81), or play Paula Fox from Lynne Tillman’s conversation (BOMB #95). The best performance wins a free vintage issue of BOMB worth lots of dough!
Featuring special guest poet & videomaker Brandon Downing, who will be lashing out with new video works that combine homophonic translation, cultural inadequacy, smoking jive tunes and curatorial practice with the cloying and destroying energy of FLARF, incurring joy, curiosity and a degree of fear! Check out his video shorts on BOMBLog” in the coming days!
Brandon Downing is a videomaker, visual artist, and writer originally from the San Francisco Bay Area. His poetry collections include The Shirt Weapon (Germ, 2002), and Dark Brandon (Faux, 2005). An online gallery of much of his recent photographic work can be seen online at brandondowning.org. A feature-length DVD collection of recent video works, Dark Brandon // Eternal Classics, was released in 2007, and a monograph of his literary collages, Lake Antiquity, will be published by Fence in 2009.
For more information about Lit Crawl NYC, visit the site.
For questions about this event, contact Paul Morris at 718.636.9100×104.
Sunday, May 3, 2009
2:00–3:00 p.m.
The Morgan Library & Museum
Gilder Lehrman Hall
225 Madison Ave.
New York City
Tickets: $15/$10 Morgan and PEN Members
Pulitzer Prize–winning author Richard Ford, one of the true giants of contemporary American literature and a master of of the short story form, talks to Vietnamese-Australian author Nam Le, whose 2008 story collection The Boat was one of the most intriguing and moving debuts of recent years. Don’t miss this conversation about the far-ranging terrain and extraordinary possibilities of short fiction writing.
Richard Ford is the author of six novels, including The Sportswriter and The Lay of the Land, and three other collections of stories, including A Multitude of Sins. He was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the PEN/Faulkner Award for 1995’s Independence Day, the first book to win both prizes. In 2001 he received the PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in short fiction.
Nam Le’s debut collection of short stories, The Boat, was published in 2008, and has been translated into 11 languages. Among other honors, it has received the Dylan Thomas Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the Michener-Copernicus Society of America Award, and a National Book Foundation “5 Under 35” selection. Le is currently the fiction editor of the Harvard Review.
Part of the PEN World Voices Festival of International Literature, April 27–May 3, 2009, and co-sponsored by The Morgan Library & Museum.
Visit PEN’s website for more information about the Festival.
For tickets, buy them online or or call 212.868.4444.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.626.9100×104.
Friday, April 17, 2009
The National Arts Club
15 Gramercy Park South
(20th Street between Park & Irving)
New York City
BOMB’s Galas are notoriously explosive! Don’t miss your chance to get in on the hottest event this Spring. Over 60 works of art will be auctioned; bidding begins at 50% off retail value. New this year: Artists Draw Raffle, each $250 ticket guarantees a 3×5 inch original, signed drawing by one of 14 amazing artists. Buy your tickets here, and follow the links below to view all the artwork.
Preview the 2009 works in auction!
View the Artists Draw Raffle
artworks and buy a ticket!
For more information about the artwork and to purchase tickets, email or call Kate Montague at Livet Reichard Co. 212.868.8450×205 or kmontague@Livetreichard.com.
Thursday, April 9, 2009
1:00–2:00 p.m.
Film Row Cinema, Columbia College Chicago
1104 S. Wabash Ave.
8th Floor
Chicago, IL 60605
FREE to the public
BOMB Magazine’s Contributing Editor Robert Polito and David Trinidad. The poets, reading from their latest collections and in conversation for this BOMBLive! event, co-sponsored by Columbia College’s English Department and recorded for broadcast on BOMBsite.com. Also available as a podcast on BOMBLog in late April.
Robert Polito’s most recent books are the poetry collection Hollywood & God and The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber. His other books include Doubles, A Reader’s Guide to James Merrill’s The Changing Light at Sandover, and Savage Art: A Biography of Jim Thompson, which received the National Book Critics Circle award in biography. He is the founder and Director of the New School Graduate Writing Program, and is completing a new book, Detours: Seven Noir Lives.
David Trinidad’s most recent book, The Late Show, was published by Turtle Point Press in 2007. With Jeffery Conway and Lynn Crosbie, he co-wrote Phoebe 2002: An Essay in Verse, a mock-epic based on the 1950 film All About Eve. His other books include Answer Song, Hand Over Heart: Poems 1981–1988, Pavane, and Plasticville, a finalist for the Lenore Marshall Poetry Prize of the Academy of American Poets. With Denise Duhamel and Maureen Seaton, he edited Saints of Hysteria: A Half-Century of Collaborative American Poetry. Trinidad teaches poetry at Columbia College Chicago, where he co-edits the journal Court Green.
Co-sponsored by Columbia College Chicago’s English Department, Creative Writing—Poetry Program, in collaboration with BOMB Magazine.
For more information, call Columbia College at 312.369.8819.
Each winter for the past 10 years, BOMB devotes an entire issue to a region of the Americas, promoting the work of artists, writers, and directors, featuring interviews and first-time translations into English of original works of fiction and poetry by some of the most acclaimed artists in Latin America.
Hosted by the King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center at New York University
Thursday & Friday, January 29 & 30, 2009
King Juan Carlos I of Spain Center, NYU
53 Washington Square South
(between Thompson & Sullivan Streets)
New York, NY 10012
Co-sponsored by NYU’s MFA Program in Creative Writing in Spanish
Contributors to BOMB 106 read in both Spanish and English. Featuring the work of two of Chile’s leading poets: Raúl Zurita (in a rare U.S. appearance), his translator Anna Deeny, and Nicanor Parra, as read by his translator Liz Werner.
They are joined by the acclaimed Argentine novelist Sergio Chejfec and his translator, Margaret Carson, reading excerpts from Chejfec’s first work to appear in English, My Two Worlds, and the fresh, new voice of Chilean novelist Lina Meruane.
Co-sponsored by Cinema Tropical
Join us for the New York–premiere of the extraordinary documentary Copacabana by pioneer writer and director Martín Rejtman, whose 1992 film Rapado paved the way for New Argentine Cinema—the country’s decade-old independent film movement. A Q&A with the director and Carlos Gutiérrez, co-founding director of Cinema Tropical, will follow the screening. Seating is limited, first-come, first-served.
About the film: Every year in mid-October, the Bolivian community in Buenos Aires celebrates its most important Patronal festivity: the party of Nuestra Señora de Copacabana. Copacabana takes this celebration as a starting point and focuses on rehearsals of dance and music groups, photo albums, and the border between Bolivia and Argentina, among other things, the film threads a simultaneously distant and close portrait of the Bolivian community from Buenos Aires.
Every year since 1999, BOMB dedicates an entire issue to a region of the Americas, featuring interviews with artists, writers, and directors, and including first-time translations into English of original works of fiction and poetry by some of the most acclaimed artists and writers in Latin America. Issue 106 features Montevideo, Santiago, and Buenos Aires.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.626.9100×104.
Wednesday, December 17, 2008, 7 pm
Brooklyn Public Library
Grand Army Plaza
What’s Alternative about Alternative Comics?
Comics without superheroes get called alternative, but what does that mean? Reading Comics author Douglas Wolk talks alternative styles with
Matt Madden (Exercises in Style) and Cristy Road (Bad Habits).
The Brooklyn Independents Series is a consortium of highly regarded, cutting-edge independent literary publishers: Akashic Press, BOMB Magazine, A Public Space, Soft Skull Press and Tin House Press. It is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art, and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Martin Wilner’s front cover for BOMB First Proof #103: Journal of Evidence Weekly, vol. 140 (supplement A), 2008, ink on paper. Three-panel fold-out, 6 1/2×9”, 6 7/16×9”, and 6 7/16×9”. Courtesy of Pierogi Gallery.
Thursday, December 4, 2008
8PM
Flying Saucer Café
494 Altantic Avenue (between Nevins & Third Ave.)
Brooklyn, NY
www.othermeans.wordpress.com/
Join the staff of BOMB Magazine as we celebrate BOMB’s literary supplement First Proof, with special guest readers Nick Flynn, Fiona Maazel, and cover artist Martin Wilner.
First Proof is BOMB’s pocket-sized pull-out, featuring multi-panel, fold-out covers exclusively designed by groundbreaking artists for BOMB readers. A limited number of free pull-outs will be on hand that night for guests to have.
Read more about BOMB’s First Proof literary supplement.
The Other Means Reading Series was founded to initiate and encourage meaningful and mutually beneficial relationships between New York City writers, lit fans, and community organizations. Each month, three writers collectively choose a local charity to support. At our readings at The Flying Saucer (usually the final Tuesday of each month), attendees can learn more about the charity, make donations on the spot, or find out about volunteer opportunities. All money collected through our $5 suggested donation goes to that month’s charity. Other Means aims to engage not just writers and charities, but to help people change their ideas about charity. By working with local community organizations and mobilizing attendees to give small donations, Other Means hopes to change people’s minds about how much you have to give to make a difference—to show that small donations matter, and that charity isn’t just for the rich.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Martin Wilner’s back cover art from BOMB First Proof #103: Journal of Evidence Weekly, vol. 140 (supplement B), 2008, ink on paper. Two-panel fold-out, 6 7/16×9” and 6 7/16×9”.
Wed, Nov 12, 2010
7–8pm
Brooklyn Public Library
Grand Army Plaza
Dweck Auditorium
FREE to the Public!
Sandy Koufax, Joe Torre and Rico Petrocelli kicked the dust on Brooklyn’s Parade Grounds sixty years ago. Today, Brooklyn authors including Michael Thomas, Nicky Dawidoff and Kevin Baker add their legends to baseball literature.
The Brooklyn Independents Series is a consortium of highly regarded, cutting-edge independent literary publishers: Akashic Press, BOMB Magazine, A Public Space, Soft Skull Press and Tin House Press. It is supported in part by grants from the National Endowment for the Arts, which believes that a great nation deserves great art, and the New York State Council on the Arts, a state agency.
Wednesday, November 5, 2008
7:30pm
P.S. 122
150 First Ave.
Mabou Mines Studio
2nd Floor
New York, NY 10009
Join BOMB Magazine for an on-stage conversation between playwrights Young Jean Lee and Richard Maxwell and the audience, co-sponsored by P.S. 122 and hosted by Mabou Mines Studio. This is a shoot, filmed for streaming video on BOMBsite.com. BOMBLive! is an ongoing series of conversations filmed in front of audiences throughout the city. Come be a part of the show!
Young Jean Lee, a New York City–based playwright with her own internationally-touring company—Young Jean Lee’s Theater Company—won the 2007 OBIE Award for an emerging playwright. Her shows include The Shipment, Church, and Songs of the Dragons Flying to Heaven. Known for her provocative, disorienting spin on familiar subjects, she has taken on topics ranging from Asian-American identity politics to Evangelical Christianity. Describing her process, Lee has written, “When starting a play, I ask myself, ‘What’s the last play in the world I would ever want to write?’ Then I force myself to write it.” Lee has recently won grants from the Jerome Foundation, the Rockefeller MAP Foundation, the Greenwall Foundation, and the New York State Council on the Arts.
Lee will be interviewed by Richard Maxwell, one of New York City’s most active and discussed playwrights. His “postdramatic” plays have been considered by the New York Times to be “hilarious and trenchant looks at American passivity.” The author and/or director of some 15 plays, his most recent work is Ode to the Man Who Kneels. Maxwell was interviewed in BOMB’s Fall issue, on newsstands now. Read it online now.
Performance Space 122 is one of New York’s ultimate destinations for cutting-edge theatre, dance, music, live art and cross-media. Founded in 1979, Performance Space 122 is dedicated to supporting and presenting artists from NYC and around the world whose work challenges the traditional boundaries of live performance. Committed to exploring innovative form as well as material, P.S. 122 is steadfast in its search for pioneering artists from a diversity of cultures and points of view. For more information about P.S. 122, visit their website.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Wednesday, October 22, 2008
7:00pm
Brooklyn Public Library
Grand Army Plaza
Dweck Auditorium
FREE to the Public!
Join BOMB Magazine for an extraordinary evening conversation between MacArthur Fellows Peter Cole and Edward Hirsch. Part of BOMBLive!, an ongoing series of conversations filmed in front of audiences throughout the city. Come be a part the show!
The recipient of a 2007 MacArthur Foundation Fellowship, Peter Cole is the author of three books of poetry, most recently, Things on Which I’ve Stumbled. He has translated widely from Hebrew and Arabic, and has received numerous awards for his work, including the PEN Translation Prize and a Guggenheim Fellowship. His anthology The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain, 950–1492 received the university press “book of the year” award from the American Publishers Association. Co-founder and publisher of Ibis Editions, he divides his time between Israel and the U.S.
Cole will be interviewed by MacArthur Fellow Edward Hirsch, President of the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation and author of over ten books of poetry and prose, including the national bestseller How to Read a Poem and Fall in Love with Poetry.
For more information about the Brooklyn Public Library, visit their website.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Thursday, October 02, 2008
7:00pm
The Cleveland Institute of Art
11141 East Boulevard
FREE to the Public!
Jonathan Lethem, best-selling author of such books as Motherless Brooklyn, Fortress of Solitude, and The Disappointment Artist, talks with Betsy Sussler, co-founder and editor in chief of BOMB Magazine. Lethem is the author of coming-of-age tales that incorporate the elements of noir mysteries, westerns, science fiction, and comic books. Part of BOMBLive!, an ongoing series of conversations filmed in front of audiences throughout the city. Come be a part the show!
Part of the “Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow: The Kacalieff Lecture Series 2007-2008.” For more information about this series and the Cleveland Institute of Art, visit their website.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Saturday, September 27, 2008
8:30pm–9:15pm
Pete’s Candy Store
709 Lorimer St., Williamsburg
FREE to the Public!
Join the editors of BOMB Magazine, authors Donald Breckenridge and Nicole Steinberg, and others for the last stop in the first-ever New York LitCrawl, a series of readings at various bars throughout the city. Come help us re-enact classic interviews from BOMB’s 27 years in a karaoke-style format. The best performance wins a free vintage issue of BOMB worth lots of dough!
Donald Breckenridge is the author of more than a dozen plays as well as the novella Rockaway Wherein (Red Dust, 1998), and the novel 6/2/95 (Spuyten Duyvil, 2002). His novel YOU ARE HERE is forthcoming from Starcherone Books (May 09) and his novel Arabesques for Sauquoit is forthcoming from Autonomedia (Summer 2009). In addition, he is the fiction editor of The Brooklyn Rail, co-editor of the Intranslation website and editor of The Brooklyn Rail Fiction Anthology (Hanging Loose Press, 2006).
Nicole Steinberg is co-editor of LIT, an Associate Editor for Entertainment Weekly, and a contributing editor to BOMB. Her poetry has recently appeared or is forthcoming in Gulf Coast, No Tell Motel, Eleven Eleven, Barrelhouse, Barrow Street, RealPoetik, Spooky Boyfriend, and elsewhere. She hosts and curates EARSHOT, a Brooklyn-based reading series dedicated to emerging writers of all genres. She’s at work on an anthology about Queens, New York, where she currently resides.
Beginning at 6pm in the Lower East Side, LitCrawl is a series of readings and events at various bars throughout the city, starting at 6pm on the Lower East Side, continuing through the East Village at 7:15, and then onto Williamsburg at 8:30, culminating in a literary after-party. For more information, please visit Lit Crawl NYC.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Sunday, September 14, 2008
10am–6pm
Brooklyn Borough Hall, booth #13
Central Plaza area, by the Courthouse, at Court St. and Remsen St.
FREE to the Public!
Swing by the BOMB table at the 3rd Annual Book Festival to check out the new fall issue of BOMB #105 before it hits newsstands! Peruse back issues, speak with editors, and enter to win a raffle for a vintage issue of BOMB from the ‘80s.
At 10am, don’t miss BOMB Senior Editor Monica de la Torre moderate a panel discussion of first-time novelists Hannah Tinti (The Good Thief), Amy Shearn (How Far is the Ocean From Here), and Toby Barlow (Sharp Teeth), Borough Hall Community Room (209 Joralemon St.).
For more information about the Festival, visit their website.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Thursday, July 17, 2008
6:30pm
Tompkins Square Park
Central area, entrance: 7th St. btw. Aves. A & B
FREE
Please join the staff of BOMB Magazine in celebrating the publication of BOMB #104 and its all-new pull-out literary supplement, First Proof, featuring appearances by the following contributing poets and writers:
Patrick Dacey’s work has appeared in The Washington Square Review, Avery, Faultline, and the Smithsonian magazine, among other publications.
Sally Dawidoff is a poet whose work has appeared in American Journal of Nursing, Ploughshares, Barrow Street, and other journals.
Gary Indiana is the author of several novels and works of nonfiction. His second collection of essays, Utopia’s Debris, will be published by Basic Books in November, followed by his new novel, The Shanghai Gesture, by Two Dollar Radio next spring.
Fiona Maazel’s first novel, Last Last Chance, was published by Farrar, Strauss & Giroux in March.
Enter to win a vintage issue of BOMB from the ’80s worth lots of dough and listen to re-enactments of some truly classic BOMB interviews.
Part of the Park-Lit Summer Reading Series.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Monday, June 30, 2008
7 PM
Housing Works Bookstore
126 Crosby Street
FREE to the Public!
Honor Moore is an award-winning poet and nonfiction writer whose books include Red Shoes, Darling, and a biography of Margarett Sargent, which was a New York Times Notable Book. Her memoir, The Bishop’s Daughter, about her relationship with her father, Bishop Paul Moore, was just published by W. W. Norton in May 2008. She lives in New York City and teaches graduate writing at The New School and Columbia University School of the Arts.
Victoria Redel is the author of two books of poetry and three books of fiction, including Swoon, Where the Road Bottoms Out, and Loverboy, which was adapted for film starring Kyra Sedgewick and Matt Dillon and directed by Kevin Bacon. Her most recent novel, The Border of Truth, published by Counterpoint in 2007, focuses on a woman who is faced with the secrets of her refugee father’s tumultuous past. She currently teaches in the Graduate Writing program at Columbia University and is on the faculty of Sarah Lawrence College.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Monday, May 5, 2008, 6:30 p.m.
Mid-Manhattan Library, 6th Floor
The New York Public Library
40th Street and 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10016
212-340-0871
How do contemporary artists engage politics, inequality, global conflict? This episode of Art21 entitled “Protest” examines the ways in which contemporary artists picture and question war, express outrage, and empathize with the suffering of others. Whether bearing witness to tragic events or engaging in acitivism, the artists interviewed in “Protest” use visual art as a means to provoke ideas and question social revolutions. After the screening writer and filmmaker Michael Almereyda will join An-My Lê for a conversation and Q&A session.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
From left: Fatou Diome, Etgar Keret, Nuruddin Farah, Xiaolu Guo
Thursday, May 1, 2008
7 PM
Brooklyn Public Library
Grand Army Plaza
FREE to the Public!
Best-selling novelist Rick Moody will guide the discussion among Fatou Diome, Nuruddin Farrah, Xiaolu Guo, and Etgar Keret about the settings for their novels and short stories, the place they call home, and where they find refuge. Introduced by BOMB’s editor-in-chief Betsy Sussler.
Part of the PEN World Voices Festival: Public Lives, Private Lives
Directions to the Brooklyn Public Library
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Monday, April 7, 2008, 6:30 p.m.
Mid-Manhattan Library, 6th Floor
The New York Public Library
40th Street and 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10016
212-340-0871
How do contemporary artists address contradiction, ambiguity, and truth? This episode of Art21 entitled “Paradox” investigates the boundaries between abstraction and representation, fact and fiction. After the screening Lia Gangitano, Director of Participant Inc., will join Charles Atlas for a conversation and Q&A session.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Wednesday, April 2, 2008, 9 p.m.
Joe’s Pub
425 Lafayette St.
New York, NY 10003
Join BOMB for a special evening presented in cooperation with the Asthmatic Kitty Record Label and Happy Ending Music & Reading Series, live from Joe’s Pub. Performers include Alec Hanley Bemis, Daphne Carr, Rob Sheffield, and musical guest My Brightest Diamond. Doors open at 9 p.m., show starts at 9:30 p.m. sharp. Tickets are $15 and going fast. To purchase, click here
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100 x104.
Monday, March 3rd, 2008
6:30 p.m.
Mid-Manhattan Library, 6th Floor
The New York Public Library
40th Street and 5th Avenue
New York, NY 10016
212-340-0871
How do contemporary artists respond to traditionally romantic ideals such as sentimentality, pathos, and the philosophy of art for art’s sake? This episode of Art21 entitled “Romance” poses questions about the value of pleasure in art and features artists whose works are extended meditations on mortality, love, reality and make-believe. After the screening Betsy Sussler, Editor in Chief and Publisher of BOMB Magazine, will join Judy Pfaff for a conversation and Q&A session.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Sunday, December 2, 2007
2pm
Proteus Gowanus
543 Union Street
Brooklyn, NY 11215
FREE to the Public!
Anita Glesta’s Gernika/Guernica, shown in Lower Manhattan in Spring 2007, juxtaposed the provocative abstraction of Picasso’s infamous painting with survivor accounts of the 1937 bombing of a Basque village. Ellen Driscoll’s sculpture Revenant, a bridge made from hundreds of #2 plastic bottles, was recently installed at the Nippon Ginko Bank in Hiroshima, Japan, one of the few structures to survive the atomic blast. The two artists will meet to discuss the power of memory and storytelling.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Sunday, November 11, 2007
7 PM
Southpaw
125 Fifth Avenue
Park Slope
Brooklyn, NY 11217
$10 – Buy Tickets: www.spsounds.com
Join BOMB Magazine as it co-sponsors the very first event of PEN American Center’s new series, PENultimate Lit, featuring writer and professor Jonathan Baumbach in conversation with acclaimed filmmaker Noah Baumbach, whose most recent film Margot at the Wedding premiered at the New York Film Festival on October 7th. The evening will be hosted by novelist Amanda Stern, author of The Long Haul.
Read BOMB’s interview with Noah Baumbach, conducted by celebrated writer Jonathan Lethem, from our Fall 2005 issue.
PENultimate Lit is a new literary series organized by PEN American Center that explores “the intersection of literature and the arts in the modern world.” Find out more about the series and the event.
Visit the Southpaw website to purchase your $10 tickets.
Wednesday, November 7, 2007
7:30 PM
Hungarian Cultural Center
447 Broadway
5th Floor
New York, NY 10012
FREE to the Public!
Péter Nádas is one of Hungary’s leading writers and a major figure in European life and letters. Susan Sontag called his A Book of Memories “the greatest novel written in our time.” To celebrate the release of his critically acclaimed new book, Fire and Knowledge, BOMB Magazine is proud to co-sponsor the author’s first appearance in the U.S. in over a decade with a book launch, reception, and conversation with Susan Rubin Suleiman, award-winning author of Crisis of Memory and the Second World War (Harvard University Press, 2006).
Read BOMB’s interview with Nádas, conducted by Davis Kovacs, from our 100th Anniversary Issue.
And don’t miss Nádas speak at the New York Public Library on November 9, at 7 PM. Visit the The New York Public Library for more info and to purchase tickets, or call (212) 930-0855.
Monday, October 29, 2007
7 PM
SculptureCenter
44-19 Purves St.
Long Island City, NYC
FREE to the Public!
Krzysztof Wodiczko, Director of the Center for Art, Culture, and Technology at MIT, animates architecture and public monuments by projecting stories and histories onto them. In this way, technology becomes an apparatus for projecting the self outward, for the collection of memory. Set in the midst of the body politic, his art acts as an instrument of knowledge. Giuliana Bruno, author, cultural theorist and professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard will interview the artist.
This event is being co-sponsored by Art21.
Sunday, September 30, 2007
1:30 PM
Brooklyn Public Library
FREE to the Public!
Read their web-exclusive conversation.
Join us for a FREE BOMBLive! event at the Brooklyn Public Library on Sunday, September 30th, as authors Nathan Englander (The Ministry of Special Cases, Knopf, April 2007) and Rivka Galchen (Atmospheric Disturbances, FSG, June 2008) pick up on stage where they left off on the page in the first of BOMB’s web-exclusive interviews.
The two novelists will discuss the art of writing, pop culture, and real and fictional Argentinas, as part of the Brooklyn Public Library’s Dweck Auditorium grand opening weekend.
The Brooklyn Public Library is located at:
1 Grand Army Plaza
Brooklyn, NY 11238
Directions to the Brooklyn Public Library
For more information, contact Paul W. Morris at (718) 636-9100, x104.
September 16, 2007
4:00pm
The Court Room
Historic Borough Hall
FREE to the Public
Award-winning authors A.M. Homes and Francine Prose read from their latest works, The Mistress’s Daughter and Reading Like a Writer, and discuss the overlap where memoirs, histories, and novels meet in this conversation presented by Bomb Magazine’s Editor-in-Chief Betsy Sussler. Part of the 2nd Annual Brooklyn Book Festival.
Stop by Booth #28 at the Brooklyn Book Festival to buy the new issue of BOMB Magazine before it hits newsstands, and to enter to win a Vintage Issue Raffle of BOMB. For more information, contact Paul W. Morris at (718) 636-9100, x104.
August 1st, 2007
6:30pm
Tompkins Square Park
Central area, entrance: 7th St. btw. Aves. A & B
FREE
BOMB Magazine’s 100th issue is now on newsstands! Join us for an evening of readings and festivities as we celebrate the summer and 26 years of publishing original poetry and fiction! Look no further than BOMB for your summer literary fix with a night of free magazine giveaways, subscription raffles, and readings by three talented readers:
Ed Park is a founding editor of The Believer and the former editor of the Voice Literary Supplement. His first novel, Personal Days, will be published by Random House in 2008.
Lore Segal is the winner of the American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters Award, the Harold U. Ribalow Prize, and the Carl Sandburg Award for Fiction. She is the author of the novels Other People’s Houses and Her First American (both available from The New Press), and several books for children. She lives in New York City.
Lynne Tillman is the author of four novels, three collections of short stories, one collection of essays, and two nonfiction books. Tillman’s novel, No Lease on Life, was a New York Times Notable Book of 1998 and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. Her novel, American Genius: A Comedy, was published by Soft Skull Press last year.
For more information, contact Paul W. Morris at (718) 636-9100, x104.
Sunday, June 3, 2007
7–9 PM
KGB Bar
85 East 4th St.
FREE
Join the Editors of BOMB Magazine as they celebrate 26 years of publishing original poetry and fiction with a reading from their special 100th issue (can you believe it?!). With free magazine giveaways, subscription raffles, and other hijinx, you’re sure to get something out of it. Readers include:
Jill Bialosky is the author of the acclaimed novel House Under Snow and the two collections of poetry, The End of Desire and Subterranean. Her poems and essays have appeared in the New Yorker and O, The Oprah Magazine. Her novel The Life Room will be published by Harcourt this August. She is an editor at W.W. Norton & Company and lives in New York City.
Rivka Galchen completed her M.D. at Mt. Sinai in 2003 and her MFA at Columbia in 2006. She’s the recipient of a Rona Jaffe Fellowship in Fiction, a Robert Bingham Fellowship for Fiction Writers, and a Columbia University Writing Instructor Fellowship. Her first novel will be published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux next spring.
Ed Park is a founding editor of The Believer and the former editor of the Voice Literary Supplement. His first novel, Personal Days, will be published by Random House in 2008.
For more information, contact Paul W. Morris at (718) 636-9100, x104.
Friday, June 1, 2007
7–10 PM
powerHouse Arena
37 Main St., DUMBO, Brooklyn
F to York, A/C to High St.
http://www.powerhousearena.com/
Please join BOMB Magazine and other Brooklyn-based indie literary publishers as they co-host the premiere BEA party of 2007! Free drinks, free food, and great music from The Misshapes. Celebrate with indie publishers such as A Public Space, Akashic Books, Archipelago Books, BOMB Magazine, Cabinet Magazine, Soft Skull Press, and Tin House. Hosted by powerHouse Books.
RSVP/Info: bea@powerHouseBooks.com
For more information call (718) 666-3049, x5