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Issue 104 Summer 2008

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TABLE OF CONTENTS

Issue 104 Summer 2008

Catherine Sullivan and Meg Stuart

Sullivan’s film installations combine performance, dance, original scores, and song. With choreographer and dancer Stuart on misfire, the body politics, and controlling chaos in ensemble-based work.

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Peter Saul by Saul Ostrow

Peter Saul—painter of satirical and ribald images since the 1960s—on his recent move to New York City, assimilation into the art world, and his big, bad subjects.

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Dara Birnbaum by Karen Kelley and Barbara Schröder

Well before it evolved into a 200-channel entertainment behemoth, Birnbaum was making now canonical avant-garde videos critiquing television’s celebration of passive consumerism and exploitation of human drama for mass consumption.

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Kalup Linzy by Nick Stillman

The John Waters of YouTube, Linzy discusses his family’s southern history and the characters in his ongoing series of camp soap operas. WEB EXTRA: Watch the exclusive music video of Linzy’s Asshole Remix.

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Mike Davis by Lucy Raven

The booming business of the Mexico/U.S. border: Davis, chronicler extraordinaire of these apocalyptic times, connects the dots between the War on Terror, the War against Drugs, Immigration and Homeland Security.

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Mike Davis by Lucy Raven

OUTTAKE! In BOMB’s print issue, Mike Davis and Lucy Raven tour California’s El Cajon, the author’s hometown. Read on for more of Davis’s perspective on the unique growth and evolution of El Cajon.

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Boredoms by Hisham Akira Bharoocha

OUTTAKE! Boredoms member Yoshimi P-We speaks about her own projects here, including her acclaimed band, OOIOO, and where she got its unusual name.

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Boredoms by Hisham Akira Bharoocha

Seven is to good fortune what eight is to infinity. The legendary Japanese noise band Boredoms on how their inimitable sound bridges Japan’s ancient folklore with world music, hardcore, and, yes, even cosmic disco.

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Will Eno by Joe Sola

The Select Equity Group Series on Theater. Eno, who’s been hailed as “the Beckett of the John Stewart generation,” with his collaborator Sola at the former Howard Johnson’s restaurant and points beyond.

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James Timberlake by Deven Golden

The projects undertaken by the architecture and design firm KieranTimberlake Associates have redefined green design and off-site fabrication. Timberlake discusses their project for MoMA’s Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling.

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Charles Goldman by B. Wurtz

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Leslie Hewitt by Whitfield Lovell

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Tristan Perich by Michèle Gerber Klein

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Patriots by Patrick Dacey

The second installment of BOMB’s Fiction for Driving Across America series. Listen to audio of Patrick Dacey!

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Two Poems by Sally Dawidoff

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Three Poems by Tom Healy

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Excerpt from The Shanghai Gesture by Gary Indiana

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Two Poems by Vincent Katz

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Excerpts from Maag & Minetti: City Stories by Keller+Kuhn

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Some Problems, Cha-cha-cha by Fiona Maazel

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House by Karen Thompson

BOMB’s 2007 Fiction Prize Winner, selected by final judge Amy Hempel.

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Two Poems and Two Paintings by Marjorie Welish

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