But the idea of transformation has always been something that I romanticize in a work. I’m cautious of it but I also need it to connect my thoughts with the process of making. That’s really important.
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Nari Ward
Fiction for Driving: An excerpt from S P R A W L by Danielle Dutton
In the eighth installment in BOMB’s Fiction for Driving Across America series, Dannielle Dutton reads an excerpt from her novel S P R A W L, published by Siglio Press, which appeared in the Summer Issue #112 of BOMB’s literary supplement, First Proof.
Part of the Fiction for Driving series.
- Alain Mabanckou by Binwavanga Wainaina
- Cynthia Hopkins by Annie-B Parson
- Dan Asher by Ben Berlow
- Joan Jonas by Karin Schneider
- Edward Droste by Rick Moody
- Jessica Jackson Hutchins by Stuart Horodner
- Jennifer Egan by Heidi Julavits
- Elizabeth Streb by A.M. Homes
Interviews
- Santutxo Etxeberria by Barbara Browning
- Fiction for Driving: An excerpt from S P R A W L by Danielle Dutton
- From Linda Perdido by Mac Wellman
- Three Poems by Elizabeth Willis
- A Short History of the Limited Edition by Tan Lin
- Hot on the Hunt by Zach Samalin
- Three Works by Sebastiaan Bremer
- Excerpt from Lividity by Kim Rosenfield
First Proof
- Futurefarmers by David van der Leer
- Andrew Lampert by Ed Halter
- Cordy Ryman by Stephen Westfall
Artists on Artists
- George Negroponte by Carlos Brillembourg
- Tim Rollins and K.O.S.: A History by Lisa Kahane
- Sharon Irish’s Suzanne Lacy: Spaces Between by Cameron Shaw
- Genevieve Belleveau by Lena Valencia
- Microscripts by Mónica de la Torre
- Veiko Õunpuu’s The Temptation of St. Tony by Clinton Krute
- Blind Handshake: David Humphrey Art Writing + Art, 1990–2008 by Stuart Horodner
- Gil Scott-Heron’s I’m New Here by Douglas Singleton
- Tomás Harris’s Cipango by Daniel Borzutzky
- Electric Literature by Paul W. Morris
- How to Escape from a Leper Colony by Jaime Manrique
- The Kenning Anthology of Poets Theater 1945–85 by Mac Wellman
Editor's Choice
Danielle Dutton © Katrin Lepler.
BOMB’s Fiction for Driving Across America Series
SPRAWL by Danielle Dutton
Read by Danielle Dutton
Recorded in the home studio of Hand-Made Records
Running Time: 14:54
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BOMB 112,
Summer 2010
Featuring interviews with Dan Asher, Elizabeth Streb and A.M Homes, Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Alain Mabanckou, Jennifer Egan, Edward Droste, Cynthia Hopkins, and Joan Jonas.
