BOMB 110 (Americas Issue: Columbia and Venezuela)

InterviewsArtists Antonio Caro and Victor Manuel Rodriquez delve into Warhol, astronomy, and national politicking as they relate to Caro's Manuel Quintin Lame.Rafael Castillo Zapata questions installation artist Ducle Gomez on systems, psychoanalysis, and Benjamin's essay on Baudelaire.Ana Teresa Torres, one of Venezuela's most respected authors and essayists, speaks to fellow novelist and former psychoanalyst Carmen Boullosa about memory and listening in her writing.Evelio Rosero, the Colombian author of The Armies, speaks to Antonio Ungarabout the madness, "the knife's edge where reality and unreality take place," that propels his writing.Juan Gabriel Vasquez and Silvana Paternostro converse about Vasquez's The Informers and the story of Colombia's German and Jewish emigres.Javier Tellez, who collaborates with the mentally disabled to "cure the sane of their lucidity," muses over the philisophical underpinnings of theater and film with Pedro Reyes.Mario Galeano Toro, leader of the ba