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Issue 104 Summer 2008
THE BOMB BLAST
Raymond Pettibon’s surfers and pitchers, monsters and movie stars populate his drawings alongside text from William Blake, the Bible and any other literary source he feels like plundering. He talks with Grady Turner about the detritus of dreams.
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An installation sculptor of massive proportions and environment, Judy Pfaff’s work brings nature and art together emphatically: 65–foot fallen cedars and bronze. Pfaff explains to painter Mimi Thompson how her vision is like memos and love letters.
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Renowned for his work on the witchcraft trials of the Inquisition, Italian historian Carlo Ginzburg shifted centuries to document a trajectory of crime, repentance and conspiracy that extends back 30 years.
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Jamaica, a truly post-lapsarian paradise, is he subject of Margaret Cezair-Thompson’s The True History of Paradise. Fellow writer Randall Kenan dives into the scenery, the intent and the influences that gave birth to this epic first novel.
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Edward Said talks with writer Phillip Lopate about his book, Out of Place, a memoir of his childhood and formation into the itinerate conscience of the intelligentsia and figurehead of postcolonial politics that we know him as today.
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In his film, Mr. Death: The Rise and Fall of Fred A. Leuchter, Jr., revolutionary documentarian Errol Morris follows the peculiar career of a self-styled execution technologist and inadvertent fascist. Novelist Margot Livesey ventures into the circle.
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In 1999, Laurie Anderson mounted her operatic take, Stories and Songs from Moby-Dick, on Melville’s classic at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. Clifford Ross joined her for tea and conversation over Melville’s very own bible—marginalia included.
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Legendary cross-dresser and co-founder of the theater troupe Split Britches joins playwright Craig Lucas for non-stop laughter and revelations about alternative theater, life, drugs, and the busting of conventions in general.
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