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BOMB Magazine | Molly McCloy by CQ Quintana
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (782+ words) Nine Grudges (Red Hen Press, 2026). CQ QuintanaWhat made you decide on the structural frame of “nine grudges” for the memoir? Molly McCloySo I started writing a letter. I wanted my dad to apologize for some things, and I couldn't think…...
BOMB Magazine | R. F. Kuang by Brian Gresko
5+ day, 9+ hour ago (204+ words) Taipei Story (William Morrow, 2026). Twenty years ago, I moved to China though I knew practically no Putonghua (common Mandarin). In the first few days it was an exhausting, overwhelming, and often ridiculous experience to simply navigate day-to-day exchanges, something R. F. Kuang…...
BOMB Magazine | Tina Chang and Hồng-Ân Trương by Eugenia Leigh
1+ week, 4+ day ago (352+ words) Lion (W. W. Norton, 2026). When Christina Yuna Lee was murdered in her New York City Chinatown apartment in February 2022, poet Tina Chang was already grieving—the Atlanta spa shootings the year before, Michelle Go's murder in Manhattan a month earlier. Distressed by…...
BOMB Magazine | Emily Watlington by Louis Bury
1+ mon, 1+ day ago (680+ words) Fables and Forensics (Columbia University Press, 2026). Louis Bury What was the impetus for this book? LB How does that perception play out in a media environment now saturated with disinformation? LB Forensic Architecture’s didactic insistence on facts unfortunately feels somewhat…...
BOMB Magazine | Fatimah Asghar by Mandana Chaffa
1+ mon, 3+ week ago (790+ words) Fatimah Asghar by Mandana Chaffa BOMB Magazine Fatimah Asghar by Mandana Chaffa Poetry about the infinite possibilities of ancestry. Daughter of the Mountains (One World, 2026). Grounded and aloft, clear-eyed about loss and grief yet equally an exhortation to being here,…...
BOMB Magazine | Samantha Paige Rosen by Kristen Martin
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (325+ words) Living, Together: Reimagining Community in the Age of Disconnection (Beacon Press, 2026). Sam and I met through Blue Stoop, a “home” for Philadelphia writers. We talked about how working on the anthology expanded her vision of communal living, how the challenges…...
BOMB Magazine | Julie Buntin by Adam Dalva
1+ mon, 4+ week ago (563+ words) Famous Men (Random House, 2026). Like Marlena, Buntin's fabulous debut novel, Famous Men excels in its complex intersections of love, loyalty, and manipulation. Eventually, Will is forced to pick a side between advocacy and loyalty, and the novel becomes a referendum…...
BOMB Magazine | Alex DiFrancesco by Jennifer Wortman
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (208+ words) The Grief Shop (Seven Stories Press, 2026). Jennifer WortmanI've always found your writing emotionally rich and tender, and The Grief Shop is no exception. How did you navigate the challenge of writing about an emotionally numb protagonist and world while still…...
BOMB Magazine | Natalie Adler by Rebecca van Laer
3+ mon, 4+ week ago (610+ words) Waiting on a Friend (Hogarth, 2026). Rebecca van LaerWe met in grad school, which is where we both learned analysis and critique: how to be haters. I have a two-part question: What did you learn there that helped you write your…...
BOMB Magazine | Sarah Wang by Jared Jackson
4+ mon, 1+ day ago (725+ words) New Skin (Little, Brown and Company, 2026). Jared JacksonWhen did you begin writing this novel and how did it evolve over time? Sarah WangI can say I started this draft in 2020. I had thrown away previous versions, but since then, I…...