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
Thirteen Poems by Lydia Davis
- Edward Said by Phillip Lopate
- Margaret Cezair-Thompson by Randall Kenan
- Laurie Anderson by Clifford Ross
- Peggy Shaw by Craig Lucas
- Judy Pfaff by Mimi Thompson
- Carlo Ginzburg by Archie Rand
- Raymond Pettibon by Grady T. Turner
- Errol Morris by Margot Livesey
Interviews
- Erwin Pfrang by Carroll Dunham
- Mala Iqbal: Figure Becomes Landscape by Roberto Juarez
- Melissa Marks by Betsy Sussler
- David Seidner (1957–1999) by Betsy Sussler
Artists on Artists
- Field Trips by Stuart Dybek
- Untitled by José Guadalupe Posada
- Writing Class, Inpatient Psychiatry, Adolescent Unit by Belle Waring
- Women’s Pantomime by Ben Marcus
- Fragments and Poems From the Ancient Greek by Brooks Haxton
- The Right to Rave by Eduardo Galeano
- The Duration of Hell by Jorge Luis Borges
- Thirteen Poems by Lydia Davis
- Firefly by Rebecca Wolff
First Proof
- Macy Gray’s On How Life Is by Rone Shavers
- Television’s The Blow-Up by David Krasnow
- Mike Marqusee’s Redemption Song by Lawrence Chua
- Lucy Ellman’s Man or Mango? by Minna Proctor
- Maggie Estep’s Soft Maniacs by Suzan Sheman
- Melissa Monroe’s Machine Language by Thomas Bolt
- Mark Jude Poirier’s Naked Pueblo by Jenifer Berman
- Mayra Montero’s The Messenger by Betsy Sussler
- Spike Jonze’s Being John Malkovich by Nic Roman
- Mark Illseley’s Happy, Texas by Lynn Geller
- Romance by Liza Béar
- The Acid House by Joshua Wolf Shenk
- Lyle Starr by Nicole Burdette
- Bruce Altshuler’s The Avant-Garde in Exhibition: New Art in the 20th Century by Saul Ostrow
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BOMB 69,
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Featuring interviews with Errol Morris, Peggy Shaw, Laurie Anderson, Carlo Ginzburg, Raymond Pettibon, Judy Pfaff, Mellisa Marks, Edward Said, and Margaret Cezair-Thompson.
