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BEA Breakdown: What’s Going On and Where

BookExpo America is back in New York at the Jacob Javits Center with a show, conference and special events. What’s nice about Book Expo is that all the booksellers come to town, the bookstore owners...

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You Don’t Know Me: Bomb, Opium, Gigantic New York Summer Soiree

Get ready to get your rocks off. Literary art mags Bomb, Opium and Gigantic are joining forces to host a night of short artistic/musical/literary programs this Wednesday, August 26th at Bowery Electric...

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A Bay Area Talk Tonight!

BOMB and Guernica Magazine are collaborating for a talk that is both free and open to the public. Come celebrate indie magazines by mingling with the writers and artists that contribute to them!Where:...

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Away From Language

BOMB interviews artist Jimmie Durham. Topics of discussion included sinister architecture, art as a “fake category,” Durham’s days in the American Indian Movement, and the” intellectual delight” of...

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Tribute Deemed Fake Bomb

Artist Takeshi Miyakawa’s public art installation was meant to be a city-wide tribute to New York.Strangely, the project, which involved hanging illuminated plastic bags with the ‘I  ♥ NY’ slogan,...

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Leigh Stein at BOMBLOG

This week’s installment of BOMB’s “Word Choice” is four poems by Leigh Stein, whose new collection, Dispatch from the Future, launches July 19th at Melville House.The poems, like Stein’s debut novel,...

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John Freeman Talks With Roxane Gay

John Freeman knows authors. Last year he published How To Read a Novelist, a collection of 55 author interviews. In this month’s issue of BOMB, Freeman interviewed Rumpus Essays Editor Emeritus Roxane...

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Perfunctory Rebellion

Over at BOMB, A.L. Stein sits down with Maggie Nelson, author of The Argonauts, to chat about metaphysics, attachments, and her relationship with the normative:“The normative/transgressive dichotomy is...

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So… Strange

We know we are very special. Yet we keep trying to find out in what way: not this way, not that way, then what way?Lydia Davis has thirteen new poems at BOMB, and they show what Lydia Davis does best:...

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The Rumpus Interview with Bruce Bauman

Bruce Bauman’s Broken Sleep is a Pynchon-esque shaggy dog of a novel spanning nearly eight decades of American history, from World War II to the not-too-distant future. Centered around the exploits of...

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The Rumpus Interview with Laura Mullen

Laura Mullen is the author of eight books: Complicated Grief, Enduring Freedom: A Little Book of Mechanical Brides, Dark Archive, Murmur, Subject, After I Was Dead, The Tales of Horror, and The...

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The Novel as a Character

At Lit Hub, an excerpt from a vivid, metaphor-rich conversation that appears in the spring issue of BOMB Magazine in which Christopher Sorrentino calls the novel an “impoverished count, living in a...

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Don’t Let Anyone Tell You They Weren’t Real

The collection both questions and honors a world in which we form emotional bonds to characters who exist for us mostly, or entirely, through various technological projections.Writing for BOMB, David...

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The Other John Reed

Writer John Reed is a genre buster. His new book, Free Boat: Collected Lies and Love Poems, is a collection of sonnets about love scenarios mostly gone amok, which he began sharing on Facebook some...

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This Week in Indie Bookstores

Revolution Books in New York City’s Harlem neighborhood is exploiting Trump’s election to raise money for a fight against fascism. People in Japan value neighborhood bookstores so much that local...

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Atomic Comb-over

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When the Healing Place Exploded

“I am good. Ana mnih. ANA MNIH. MAMA. ANA MNIH. KHALTOU. ANA MNIH.” These are the messages my brother-in-law, Rami, sent on the family Whatsapp group between 6:08 p.m. and 6:09 p.m. Beirut time, right...

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