The newly relaunched BOMBsite.com features more and more exclusive content you won’t find in the magazine, offering full-length web-exclusive interviews.

 

The Next Wave Festival is hitting BAM this fall to rave reviews. BOMB presents an exclusive interview between Michael Thalheimer & David Levine, as Thalheimer’s Lulu makes a splash in New York this November.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The two dramatists speak about the directorial process, Thalheimer’s approach to classic texts, and how his productions are received in Germany and the U.S.

The main point of my work is to completely focus, to boil the plays down to the maximum, to the intensity, to the core of the piece, to get rid of everything that is superfluous. And that apparently is something that had not been done to such a radical extent by other directors and in other German theaters. Nobody else has ever performed this radically, or has really reduced things to the core of the text and to the absolute essence. —Michael Thalheimer

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Our September/October web exclusive featured a conversation between novelists Nathan Englander & Rivka Galchen. Watch their BOMBLive! conversation filmed live at the Brooklyn Public Library on September 30, 2007.

Photo: Aaron Harnly

Photo: Elana Seibert

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

In this epistolary exchange, the two writers discuss the art of writing, pop culture, the Argentina of the Dirty Wars, the Jewish Diaspora, and the imagination:

I love to believe, when it comes to fiction, that there’s an order to the world. That if you think about something long enough, you can dream it, and write it, as it was. Like pick a stranger on the subway, and if you write that lady’s life for enough years and put enough thought into it, you should be able to go up to her and say, “Here are the dreams you had as a child,” and she will say, “Yes, that is so. Just right.” —Nathan Englander

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New conversations upcoming this winter:

• Authors Francisco Goldman & Silvana Paternostro
• Novelists Daniel Alarcón & Alex Espinoza, with Gabriela Jauregui
• Musicians Ned Sublette & Coco Robicheaux

Keep checking back in the weeks to come as the new BOMBsite.com features more and more exclusive content you won’t find in the magazine!