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Fiction for Driving Across America: Saint Jerome & the Dumpster Girls by Ben Ristow
Part of the Fiction for Driving series.
- Rochelle Feinstein by Justin Lieberman
- Tristan Garcia by Sandra Laugier
- Apichatpong Weerasethakul by Lawrence Chua
- Jim Nutt & Gladys Nilsson by Richard Hull
- The Bug by Jace Clayton
- Adam Pendleton by Thom Donovan
- Rae Armantrout by Ben Lerner
- Sarah Michelson by Ralph Lemon
Interviews
- New Alphabet by Marina Adams & Norma Cole
- Fiction for Driving Across America: Saint Jerome & the Dumpster Girls by Ben Ristow
- 2010 Poetry Prize Winner, Judged by Susan Howe: Two Poems by Matthew Reeck
- Auto-Tune by Ben Lerner
- Born on October Fourth by Armando Suárez Cobián
- Formulas & Flowers from Book of Ruth by Robert Seydel
- Three Stories by Chiara Barzini
First Proof
- John O’Connor by Bruce Pearson
- Claudia Joskowicz by Omer Fast
- JJ Peet by Sabine Russ
Artists On Artists
- Olivia Booth and Rebecca Norton by Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
- Atlanta: Hip Hop and the South by Richard Maxwell
- Merry Christmas, Mr. Lawrence by Clinton Krute
- 20 Years by Alan Licht
- Correspondence Course: An Epistolary History of Carolee Schneemann and Her Circle by Stephen Motika
- Lynd Ward’s Six Novels in Woodcuts by Alexis Boehmler
- How Can You Stay in the House All Day and Not Go Anywhere by Richard J. Goldstein
- Klaus Kertess’s Seen, Written by Max Blagg
- Carlos Cruz-Diez
- Dave Tompkins’s How to Wreck a Nice Beach: The Vocoder from World War II to Hip-Hop, The Machine Speaks by Douglas Singleton
- Stephen-Paul Martin’s Changing the Subject by Peter Moysaenko
- George Robert Minkoff’s The Leaves of Fate by Betsy Sussler
- The Collected Poems of Larry Eigner by Stephen Ratcliffe
Editor's Choice
In the tenth installment in BOMB’s literary podcast series, listen to Ben Ristow read his short story “Saint Jerome & the Dumpster Girls,” originally published in BOMB 114.
This segment is co-produced with Jason Repko at KXCI Community Radio in Tucson, AZ.
Ben Ristow is an emerging fiction writer and interdisciplinary scholar who teaches at the University of Arizona. His first published short story, “Denise Pearson,” appeared in the Indiana Review last December. He lives in Tucson with his wife and two daughters. “Saint Jerome and the Dumpster Girls” was the runner-up for BOMB’s 2009 Fiction Prize, judged by Jonathan Lethem.
Related
The NADA Contemporary Poetry Marathon Reading from May 10, 2014.
Listen to readings from a BOMBlive event at the Harbor Gallery on July 24th, 2013. Many thanks to our talented readers: Álvaro Enrigue, Catherine Lacey, M. Cullen, Trey Sager, and Bianca Stone.
Listen to a replay of BOMBRadio’s July 4th, 2010 episode, originally aired on Newtown Radio.
Originally published in
BOMB 114,
Winter 2011
Featuring interviews with Jim Nutt and Gladys Nilsson, Rochelle Feinstein and Justin Lieberman, Rae Armantrout and Ben Lerner, Tristan Garcia and Sandra Laugier, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jace Clayton and Kevin Martin, Sarah Michelson and Ralph Lemon, and Thom Donovan.
