Open to Possibility: Jesse Wine Interviewed by Cassie Packard
The process of making, breaking, and remaking ceramic sculptures.
Ever-Present Emergency: Madeleine Watts Interviewed by Liza St. James
On writing a porous character and the crises that shape her.
A list of vital resources for ALL artists. New: Los Angeles Resources for Latinx Communities.
In this two-part workshop, McCannon will lead participants through her collage process.
The language and objects of collective dreaming.
Join us as we celebrate the launch of Brontez Purnell’s new collection, 100 Boyfriends.
BOMB 151,
Spring 2020
Our spring issue features interviews with Chitra Ganesh, Tania Cypriano, Charles Atlas, Netta Yerushalmy, Vi Khi Nao, Amani Al-Thuwaini, Andrea Hasler, and Bruce Boone, as well as fiction from Verónica Gerber Bicecci, Justin Taylor, Rebecca Dinerstein Knight, and Lee Relvas, and poetry from Shuzo Takiguchi and Bruce Boone.
BOMB 152,
Summer 2020
Our summer issue includes interviews with Amoako Boafo, Jibz Cameron, Brenda Goodman, Odili Donald Odita, Jenny Offill, Nicolas Party, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, and Craig Taborn; poetry by Safia Elhillo and Nathaniel Mackey; prose by Lydia Davis, Marie-Helene Bertino, and Saidiya Hartman; and more.
BOMB 153,
Fall 2020
Our fall issue features interview with Erica Baum, Billy-Ray Belcourt, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Carolyn Lazard, Nathalie Léger, Martine Syms, and Rufus Wainwright; fiction by Kevin Brockmeier and C Pam Zhang; poetry by Yi Sang and Vijay Seshadri; nonfiction by Lorraine O’Grady and Paula Mónaco Felipe; a special project by Garrett Bradley; and more.
BOMB 154,
Winter 2021
Our winter issue includes interviews with Tashi Dorji, Danielle Evans, Walton Ford, Guadalupe Maravilla, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, the Ross Brothers, and Aaron Turner; DIY cookbooklets from Dindga McCannon; poetry by Rae Armantrout, Imani Elizabeth Jackson, and Allison Parrish; prose by Langston Cotman, GennaRose Nethercott, and Brontez Purnell; a comic by Michael DeForge; protest drawings by Steve Mumford; and more.
From the BOMB Archives
A selection of some of our favorites from the archives.
This interview is featured, along with thirty-four others, in our anthology BOMB: The Author Interviews.
The artist’s works amend the white supremacist mythology contained in American monuments and historical paintings: “Democracy requires a clear understanding of the past, including its mistakes.”
I planned to write a book about / the color blue. Now I’m suddenly surrounded / by green, green gagging me / pleasurably, green holding onto my hips / from behind, digging into / the cleft, the cleft // that can be made.
If the soul and the ego were objects we could look at, the soul would be a translucent heart beating.
—
George Condo