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Issue 106 Winter 2009
The notorious Keith Antar Mason left the traditional stage to perform his controversial pieces, dealing with race and identity, in alleyways and on basketball courts with his group Hittite Empire.
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The New York Times dubbed painter Jack Whitten as “the father of new abstraction” in 1994. He speaks to Kenneth Goldsmith about his southern sensibility, the spirit of the ‘60s, and the keys to artistic survival.
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Award-winning novelist Rick Moody talks about his novel The Ice Storm which documents 24 hours in the life of the Hoods in 1973. He and Jill Eisenstadt discuss family and the darker consequences of the early ‘70s “sexual revolution.”
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Dennis Cooper’s mix of earnesty and violence have made his work timelessly hip and readable. He speaks with Benjamin Weissman after the release of Try, his third installment in The George Miles cycle.
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An in-depth interview with “one of America’s most indispensable and independent thinkers,” bell hooks, by BOMB contributing editor Lawrence Chua.
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Filmmakers and writers Gurinder Chada and Hanif Kureishi talk with Lawrence Chua about the British ethnic experience, Pakistani punks, and the limitations of tradition.
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Pulitzer Prize-winning performance artist and playwright Eric Bogosian has seen numerous off-Broadway revivals of his work, not to mention film adaptations of two of his plays. In this interview he discusses Suburbia, along with Pounding Nails.
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