Like many writers, I feel centered when I write, or it might be better to say, when I don’t write, when I can’t write for whatever reason, I feel, frankly, de-stabilized. It’s dangerous for me not to write.
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Sigrid Nunez
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
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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.
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What was the earth like?
My sister asks this every night, leaning back on her pillow. The question is part of our routine, along with brushing our teeth, peeing, pushing our legs into the soft holes of our pajamas.
When he could no longer stand her chatter—in France I made myself a dress of leaves stitched together with stems and I wore it by that river, the big one, the sludge, and that’s how I met many interesting boyfriends from the National Geographic Magazine—he left Nancy on the hotel roof with the chef from Mumbai.
It was with the printing press and Enlightenment science that history first demarcated itself from literature as a field of knowledge founded on scientific principles and archival methods.
Originally published in
BOMB 114,
Winter 2011
Featuring interviews with Jim Nutt and Gladys Nilsson, Rochelle Feinstein, Rae Armantrout, Tristan Garcia, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, The Bug, Sarah Michelson, and Adam Pendleton.
