Literature
On pageantry, the contradictions of family, and writing about queer femmes.
On pageantry, the contradictions of family, and writing about queer femmes.
On candidly depicting a black woman’s consciousness, the contradictions of intimacy, and the joys of other art forms.
On the life experiences that smooth our edges, writing into the unknown, and the brutality of love.
On writing about California in the 1990s, embodying our experiences, and launching a novel during a pandemic.
BOMB is thrilled to announce Stephanie Jean as the winner of our 2020 Poetry Contest.
Join us as we celebrate the launch of Akwaeke Emezi’s new novel, The Death of Vivek Oji.
On trying to pre-grieve, the expansiveness of the desert, and writing the book she wanted to write.
The debut writer on how vignettes became a novel, bodies as objects, and why discomfort is comfortable to read.
The first time I saw Jane I was working at the bike shop, a veritable cacophony of grease and gunk I only survived by occupying my hands. Bikes had a purpose that had nothing to do with me—every part fit together properly so my mind could remain free and unviolated. Her left knee was scrapped, with pieces of pavement lodged in the wound. The sight disrupted my hard-earned equilibrium. I tried not to look, but it was too late. I had already imagined retrieving the bits of bloody gravel from her abrasion and rolling them like candy on my tongue.
On writing a polyphonic novel, the female perspective, parenthood, and the near future.
On writing felt-sense memories, attending philosophy camp, and the ever-changing nature of language.
It must have been during those months when an accident slightly threw off my routine. And maybe it was in those months when I finally found—though I wasn’t looking for it—a brief respite. One day I was at Giovanna’s and she read me a few lines of the subcomandante’s, poetic lines that told the story of a viceroy of India who dreams that his kingdom is destroyed.
Join us as we celebrate the launch of two summer books!
Join us as we celebrate the launch of two summer books!
On the relationship between poetry and social struggle.
The writer on her new novel, looking at the spectrum of privilege, and subverting female friendship tropes.
Two new Lydia Davis stories on a collectible broadsheet.
The writer on her new novel, creative partnerships, sex as communication, and tending to old drafts.
The writer on writing about secrets, food as love language, and releasing a debut novel during a pandemic.
On writing mentally ill characters with nuance and how our identities shape the power relationships of our most intimate interactions.
