Your friends would like to know when you are going to interview Beyoncé. I was sitting in her living room and drinking wine as she held forth and I thought, Read Bad Feminist and requested me for the interview.
When I got theĬall with the offer to do the interview, I couldn’t quite believe it because she had Interviewing Madonna was absolutely one of the most surreal moments. What stands out as one of the most surreal moments of your career? You are a bestselling author, you’ve interviewed icons like Toni Morrison and Madonna,Īnd given a TED Talk.
My time in grad school was quite a chance to grow, to think about how to best takeĪ stand, to learn how to give back, to learn how to teach, to write, to live in a Words, describe your experience as a graduate student at Tech. Students to write an entire essay using only one-syllable words. ’08, Rebecca Miner ’15, and Joanna Schrieber ’13-came up with the following questions.Īs a graduate instructor at Michigan Tech, you assigned an infamous project that required A group of those friends-Laurence Jose ’10, Karen Koethe But during her Michigan Tech days, some of us were lucky enough to have front-rowĪccess to Gay, back when she hosted a weekly gathering of-dare I say it-bad feminists
Twitter followers, and events that sell out in a matter of minutes, Gay is in highĭemand. With a New York Times op-ed column, 202,000-some It’s something her many fans admire, too. Gay was at the ready with provocative, thoughtful comments. Theoretical and philosophical, to pop culture and celebrities. The chase, for getting to the heart of the matter.
The Oral History Project is a series of interviews that collects, documents, and preserves the life stories of New York City based visual artists of the African Diaspora.New York Times bestselling author, cultural critic, and professor Roxane Gay has Michigan Tech roots.īefore she wrote Ayiti, An Untamed State, Bad Feminist, Difficult Women, and Hunger, Gay ’10 was a graduate student in Tech’s Rhetoric and Technical Communication program.Įven back then, Gay’s classmates took notice of her knack for eloquently cutting to Mellon Foundation, BOMB has made all of its content-over 7,500 primary cultural documents from the past 37 years-available for free.
The BOMB Archive is a fully searchable and relational online library that provides access to the ongoing history of dialogue generated by BOMB since 1981. Subscribe today.īOMB Daily publishes exchanges on artistic practice including interviews, literature, portfolios, and essays. BOMB includes a quarterly print magazine, a daily online publication, and a digital archive of its previously published content from 1981 onward.īOMB Magazine is a print quarterly publishing in-depth interviews between artists alongside artists’ essays, literature, and portfolios. Today, BOMB is a multi-media publishing house that creates, disseminates, and preserves artist-generated content from interviews to artists’ essays to new literature. BOMB’s founders-New York City-based artists and writers-created BOMB because they saw a disparity between the way artists talked about their work among themselves and the way critics described it. BOMB Magazine, has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981.