Literature
On the cannibalization of black pain and how we free ourselves from it.
On the cannibalization of black pain and how we free ourselves from it.
The writer on her new book Brown Album, personal essays, camp as armor, the hyperreal, and designing her own Barbie.
On writing female friendship, learning about moonshine, and composing a novel one image at a time.
A snow lark hovers over the isolated Isle of the Dead A shadow on the beach is an echo of Venus who bestows upon me some ripened red fruit In this isolated moment waves produce a dream that seduces me
First I was Ren’s guest, a role that indicated only the short length of our acquaintance, rather than what it would become later: the strategic adherence to a balance of formality and intimacy designed to showcase only my most appealing qualities.
Alphabets are limited; it’s the arrangement of letters that produces meaning.
David Berman committed suicide, and I’m like a blackbird that has flown into a bay window and awoken in a flower box, dizzy in gardenia shade, trying to get un-stunned and back on the wing before the neighborhood cats come round.
On growing up in Alabama, boys as muses, finding queer community, snake handling, and more.
On writing a systems novel that accommodates a diverse cast of characters and the concerns of our hyper-digital times.
On navigating the success and failure dichotomy, the tropes of women friendship narratives, and working across mediums.
A novel that avoids being a ripped-from-the-headlines sellout and offers an intelligent tale about the lives that new technologies mediate.
On writing to include others, artists who generate hope, and how constriction can be inventive.
The musician on her new memoir, how the muses showed up to help her write about grief, and the power of creativity during pandemic times.
A Room with a View features BOMB contributors past and present.
it’s just writing on instagram: “best decision I ever made / marrying this one” / now no one is afraid to get drinks with “this one” / he’s “safe” because he married a nerd who thinks / she’s a 19th century aristocrat
The writers on their debut short story collections, artifice as truth, and how music can teach you to write a sentence.
I like when words fail. It shows we don’t believe / we totally know. Name a plant in a forest // and you think you know it. That name / to a bird or a dog, that sound is a squawk.
BOMB is pleased to host A Room with a View, live conversations with artists and writers.
On writing into the other meanings of a hometown murder mystery.
