My impulse was to write the last black play ever for myself. I really believed if I put it all into one play, people would leave me alone.
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Branden Jacobs-Jenkins
Everything You See Is Real by Ben Ehrenreich
Part of the Fiction for Driving series.
- Jacqueline Humphries by Cecily Brown
- Eric Kraft by Andrei Codrescu
- Roxy Paine by Tod Williams & Billie Tsien
- Adam Bartos by A.M. Homes
- Mary Gaitskill by Matthew Sharpe
- The Yes Men by Steve Lambert
- Pauline Oliveros by Cory Arcangel
- Matthew Buckingham by Josiah McElheny
Interviews
- Portfolio by Bill Jacobson
- Traveling Fools by Ana Menéndez
- Four Poems by Rusty Morrison
- You Are Your Own Very Unique Snowflake by Sally Anne Clegg
- Three Poems (Poetry Prize Winner) by J.R. Thelin
- From Slight Disturbances by Charles Mary Kubricht
- Everything You See Is Real by Ben Ehrenreich
- Three Poems by Laura Mullen
- Dutch Boy 32-V by Michael Martone
First Proof
- Mickalene Thomas by Kara Walker
- Rashid Johnson by Sanford Biggers
- Joyce Pensato by Marcella Durand
Artists on Artists
- John from Cincinnati by Cameron Shaw
- FM3’s Buddha Machine 2.0 by Timothy Boyd
- Scott Walker: 30 Century Man by Erik Morse
- Lutz Bacher’s SMOKE (Gets in Your Eyes) by Ben Handzo
- The Marfa Sessions: Sounds across Town by Victoria Miguel
- The Difficulty of Crossing a Field by Scott Shepherd
- Serpentina Satélite’s Nothing to Say by Eric Schneider
- Kristin Palm’s The Straits by Mónica de la Torre
- Laurie Sheck’s A Monster’s Notes by Kimiko Hahn
- Vanessa Place’s La Medusa by Stefanie Sobelle
- Kevin Wilson’s Tunneling to the Center of the Earth and Jon Raymond’s Livability by Lena Valencia
Editor's Choice
In the fourth installment in BOMB’s Fiction for Driving Across America series, Ben Ehrenreich reads his story “Everything You See Is Real,” published in BOMB 107’s literary supplement, First Proof.
For copyright reasons, the text version of this excerpt is available in print only; buy the issue here.
Recorded at the studio of Art International Radio.
Related
Pioneer Works and BOMB Magazine collaborated on a ten-week workshop for high schoolers from Red Hook Initiative celebrating our Oral History Project.
The NADA Contemporary Poetry Marathon Reading from May 10, 2014.
Originally published in
BOMB 107,
Spring 2009
Featuring interviews with Adam Bartos and A.M. Homes, Jacqueline Humphries, Tod Williams and Billie Tsien, Andrei Codrescu, Mary Gaitskill, Matthew Buckingham, and Pauline Oliveros.
