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Issue 105 Fall 2008
Though his output ranges from video to drawings, Mike Kelley is probably best known for his manipulation of hand-made stuffed animals. With influences as diverse as his mediums, Kelley remains one of the most important artists of the late 20th century.
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Caryl Phillips speaks to his friend Graham Swift about the origins and writing of Cambridge, a novel which speaks to the “historic, primal, terrible” journey of the African slave trade.
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”...[L]iterature’s job is like a pebble in a pool, to cause people to feel things, to sort of ripple out, to move out…” says novelist and journalist Colm Toíbín on the power of the written word in this eloquent conversation with Lynne Tillman.
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Roland Legiardi-Laura invokes documentarian Barbara Kopple’s modesty as they discuss the extreme hardships and tensions involved in making Oscar-winning films such as American Dream and Harlan County, U.S.A.
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With songs that explored the darker sides of L.A.’s culture in the early ‘80s, Exene Cervenka and her band X’s unique brand of folky punk rock has made them a permanent fixture in L.A.’s musical history.
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A conversation between Craig Lucas and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Edward Albee about his seminal works and future goals in theater.
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