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Issue 103 Spring 2008
THE BOMB BLAST
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Monday, May 5, 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
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.
Date TBA
Cooper Union
51 Astor Place
Wollman Auditorium
New York, NY 10012
FREE to the Public!
Sonnier’s sculptures are made from neon, discarded industrial materials, and found objects. Mayne’s design practice, Morphosis, produces work influenced and informed by contemporary culture. The two artists, who collaborated on the Caltrans District 7 building in California, will discuss their work in the public realm.
Please contact Paul Morris with questions at 718.636.9100×104.
Monday, April 7, 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, 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, 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
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
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, 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
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
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
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
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 1st
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
