Steve DiBenedetto by David Humphrey

Painters Steve DiBenedetto and David Humphrey on what mind-altering drugs have in common with Venturi, Cezanne, Catholicism, and heavy metal.

Joseph Bartscherer by James Welling

Photographer Joseph Bartscherer with James Welling on the order of Things—from construction to agriculture to front-page obituaries. WEB EXTRA: View a slideshow of images from Bartscherer’s Forest.

Zachary Lazar by Christopher Sorrentino

Lazar’s second novel, Sway, interlaces fictional accounts of ‘60s headliners including Anita Pallenberg, Keith Richards, Charles Manson, and Kenneth Anger.

Indran Amirthanayagam by Adam Zameenzad

Amirthanayagam, born in Sri Lanka and currently an American diplomat, with England-based Zameenzad, on fundamentalism in the West and the Middle East, friendship, and the multilingual imagination.

Raja Alem by Tom McDonough

Arabia’s Nabokov emails with her friend and translator on Bedouin spells, the divine in fly fishing, and their newest project, My Thousand and One Nights.

Jonathan Lethem and Lydia Millet

An email conversation as unpredictable as some of their characters—Edison, a devoted IRS employee, talking animals, a paranoid critic, and a ghostwriter working for injured athletes among them.

Harmony Korine by Richard Bishop

Filmmaker Harmony Korine (Gummo) returns after an eight-year hiatus with Mister Lonely, a hilarious film involving skydiving nuns, celebrity impersonators, and Werner Herzog.

Tav Falco by Erik Morse

The blues-rock provacateur on his historico-musico revue. A protegé of Eggleston, Falco also photographed and filmed ‘60s and ‘70s Memphis blues. WEB EXTRA: Listen to a song by Tav Falco’s Panther Burns!

Philip Seymour Hoffman by June Stein

The Select Equity Group Series on Theater. The Academy Award winner on how acting has helped him perfect his other love— directing for the theater. Just opening: Little Flower of East Orange at LAByrinth Theater Company.

Chris Martin by James Siena

Paulina Ołowska by Elka Krajewska

Rachel Foullon by Betsy Sussler

Yes (For Liz) by Linda Bamber

Two Poems by Bradford Gray Telford

An excerpt from Trauma by Patrick McGrath

From Alice Invents a Little Game and Alice Always Wins by Nick Flynn

And It's Hard for Her to Imagine It Now by Hannah Pittard

Two Poems by Elena Georgiou

Two Stories by Paul Maliszewski

Forest by Joseph Bartscherer

View an exclusive slideshow of images from Joseph Bartscherer’s Forest grid and read his conversation with photographer James Welling.

Tav Falco by Erik Morse

After an initial burst of sight and sound in Memphis with the assistance of a chainsaw, Tav Falco and his newly christened Panther Burns migrate to New York between 1978 and 1980. Read more here and listen to “Lotus Blossom.”

Raja Alem by Tom McDonough

Read two of one thousand and one possible outtakes from a conversation between Raja Alem, Saudi Arabia’s Nabokov, and Tom McDonough, her translator and collaborator.

Zachary Lazar by Christopher Sorrentino

Zachary Lazar’s second novel, Sway, interlaces fictional accounts of some of the ’60s most iconic headliners. In this outtake they discuss the historical novel and art’s dwindling ability to shock.

Steve DiBenedetto by David Humphrey

In the print issue, painters Steve DiBenedetto and David Humphrey discuss their studios as prosthetic rooms — extensions of the artists’ personalities — authentic fictions, dirty optics, and the hum of existence. Read on about matters of faith.

Herb and Rosalie Swanson at the Cocoanut Grove by Peter Orner

The first installment of BOMB’s Fiction for Driving Across America series. Listen to audio of Peter Orner!