INTERVIEWS

ART — NARI WARD by Lee Jaffe
MUSIC — JIM O'ROURKE by Jay Sanders
ART — DAVID DIAO by Matthew Deleget
FILM — RACHEL ROSE by Aily Nash
LIT — TONYA FOSTER & JOHN KEENE
LIT — ALICE NOTLEY by Robert Dewhurst
ART — DEANA LAWSON & HENRY TAYLOR
THEATER — ANNIE BAKER by Elianna Kan 

BOMB Specific
Katherine Hubbard

ARTISTS ON ARTISTS
Ester Partegàs by Eduardo Abaroa
Michael Childress by Susan Jennings
Cameron Rowland by Ian Edward Wallace

FIRST PROOF

Portfolio
Lori Ellison

Fiction
"Piero" by Gabriella De Ferrari
"Outline for a Novel I Will One Day Be Struck Dead While Reading" by Blake Butler
"The Babysitter at Rest" by Jen George (Winner of BOMB's 2015 Short Fiction Contest, selected by Sheila Heti)
from What do we want to know and how far are willing to go to get it?: An epistolary novella by Julie Carr

Poetry
"Blind Boone's Pianola Blues" and "100 Times" by Tyehimba Jess
Four Poems by Albert Mobilio
"The Center of the World (The Direction of my Thought)&mdashDirect from my New Home in Eurasia—" and "Apocalypsis, or The Dragon in Her Cave" by Jimmie Durham

EDITOR'S CHOICE
Skinscreen: Art and Poetry at the New Museum’s Surround Audience Triennial
by Alan Gilbert

Pierre Huyghe’s Rite Passage and Human Mask
by Chris Chang

The Racial Imaginary: Writers on Race in the Life of the Mind, edited by Claudia Rankine, Beth Loffreda, and Max King Cap
by Timothy Donnelly

Samuel Beckett’s Happy Days
by Amber Power

Matt Freedman and Tim Spelios’s Endless Broken Time
by Ander Mikalson

Guillaume Apollinaire’s Zone: Selected Poems translated by Ron Padgett
by Dylan Furcall

Actor, Playwright, Failure, Father, Fag—Conrad Gerhardt Strikes Again. Jeff Weiss and Richard C. Martinez’s And That’s How the Rent Gets Paid
by Jim Fletcher

Fran Ross’s Oreo
by Rone Shavers