I find the idea that we write alone laughable, even egotistical. Poetry is a palimpsest that has been endlessly rewritten—it’s a social space we share with others.
—
Jen Bervin
The Bar On Tompkins Square Park by Frederic Tuten
Part of the Fiction for Driving series.
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- Guy Maddin & Isabella Rossellini
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- Nam Le by Charles D'Ambrosio
- Dike Blair and Joe Bradley
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- The Bar On Tompkins Square Park by Frederic Tuten
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Frederic Tuten
In the fifth installment in BOMB’s Fiction for Driving Across America series, Frederic Tuten reads his story “The Bar On Tompkins Square Park,” originally published in BOMB 108’s literary supplement, First Proof.
Originally published in
BOMB 108,
Summer 2009
Featuring interviews with Dawoud Bey, Dike Blair and Joe Bradley, Harry Dodge and Stanya Kahn and Michael Smith, Nam Le and Charles D’Ambrosio, Guy Maddin and Isabella Rossellini, Bill Callahan and Jon Raymond, Pavol Liska and Kelly Copper, and Jacques Roubaud.
