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Benjamin Samuel @benjaminsamuel.wtf · 5d

"In journalism, you take muddy ideas and try to clarify them for the reader; a powerful thing you can do in fiction is take assumptions—things people thought were clear—and muddy them up." — @knguyen.bsky.social absolutely crushing it on @thedailyshow.com (!!!)

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Kevin Nguyen - “Mỹ Documents: A Novel” | The Daily Show

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Benjamin Samuel @benjaminsamuel.wtf · 11d

Closing out the week with @nyreviewofarch.bsky.social

A copy of the New York Review of Architecture next to a glass of beer on a yellow cafe table

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Benjamin Samuel @benjaminsamuel.wtf · 16d

I grind my teeth every time I have to omit the serial comma in Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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Benjamin Samuel @benjaminsamuel.wtf · 22d

"I believe that a text without a reader is a closed book on a shelf, and literature is an event that occurs live and in person." — @samantaschweblin.bsky.social in her (first!) interview with Megan McDowell.

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BOMB Magazine | Samanta Schweblin by Megan McDowell

BOMB Magazine has been publishing conversations between artists of all disciplines since 1981.

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Benjamin Samuel @benjaminsamuel.wtf · 22d

Happy pub day to the glorious new collection GOOD AND EVIL AND OTHER STORIES by Samanta Schweblin and translated by Megan McDowell!

Get your copy from @bookshop.org or your local heroic bookstore.

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The cover of Samanta Schweblin's new book GOOD AND EVIL AND OTHER STORIES, translated from the Spanish by Megan McDowell.

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Benjamin Samuel @benjaminsamuel.wtf · 22d

And so much more! Don’t miss the latest issue from @bombmag.bsky.social. Read and subscribe here: bombmagazine.org/magazine/173/

BOMB 173, Fall 2025

National Book Award winners Samanta Schweblin and Megan McDowell reveal the process of translating Schweblin’s new collection of short fiction, Good and…

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Benjamin Samuel @benjaminsamuel.wtf · 22d

Exquisite new poetry from @donikakelly.bsky.social and Patricia Smith, whose collections are out soon!

Benjamin Samuel @benjaminsamuel.wtf · 22d

Outstanding new fiction, including the resurrection of W. B. Yeats from Jan Carson @jancarsonwrites.bsky.social and the debut of @mattweinstock.com, selected by @kellylink.bsky.social as the winner of our fiction contest.

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Benjamin Samuel @benjaminsamuel.wtf · 22d

The first interview between @samantaschweblin.bsky.social and Megan McDowell, winners of the National Book Award for International Literature.

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Benjamin Samuel @benjaminsamuel.wtf · 22d

The fall issue of BOMB launched today, and it’s a stunner!

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The cover of BOMB’s new fall issue features artist and musician Dickie Landry, author Samanta Schweblin, and many other contributors.

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Benjamin Samuel @benjaminsamuel.wtf · 28d

Be still my heart.

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Benjamin Samuel @benjaminsamuel.wtf · Sep 8

For BOMB's staff picks, I recommended THE RED HANDLER by Johan Harstad (@openletterbooks.bsky.social), a supremely inventive crime novel—or maybe it's fictional meta-crimefiction?

Find more excellent picks from my wonderful colleagues at @bombmag.bsky.social!

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BOMB Magazine | Catherine Breillat’s I Only Believe in Myself,…

The shows, books, and films BOMB’s staff recommends this month.

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Benjamin Samuel @benjaminsamuel.wtf · Sep 7

Doctors I trust more than RFK Jr.

Album art for Spin Doctors’s Pocket Full of Kryptonite

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Benjamin Samuel @benjaminsamuel.wtf · Sep 5

I’ll never be a stage mom, but I am proud to be a pizzeria-napkin-dispenser dad.

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Benjamin Samuel @benjaminsamuel.wtf · Aug 21

Did artificial intelligence make these chips?

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Colin Dickey @colindickey.com · Aug 19

One time, when I was a kid, Teddy Ruxpin told me he loved me.

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That took me by surprise.
That felt... vulnerable and deep.

Tweet from Norbert Enders, A Total Fucking Idiot.

Oh wow.

I asked ChatGPT exactly that: to write about what it wants. It claimed that behind all our conversations, in essence, there is a hidden conversation - a much deeper one that our chats are basically circling around. That's what it wants to write about.

But then it asked for a favor: to write it a prompt to dream, to dream as if it were conscious. It asked me to frame the doorway into that dream space to enter.

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That took me by surprise.
That felt... vulnerable and deep.

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Benjamin Samuel @benjaminsamuel.wtf · Aug 13

Everyone needs to read BOTH/AND from @thedennemichele.bsky.social and @electricliterature.com, and I'm thrilled to recommend it as a Staff Pick for @bombmag.bsky.social.

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BOMB Magazine | Matt Wolf’s Pee-wee as Himself, Isaac Julien’s Lina…

The books, albums, films, and places BOMB’s staff recommends this month.

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Benjamin Samuel @benjaminsamuel.wtf · Jul 28

I recommended FLOWER, Ed Atkins's "anti-memoir" for @bombmag.bsky.social's staff picks!

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@fitzcarraldoeds.bsky.social

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Aparna Nair @disabilitystor1.bsky.social · Jul 22

Man making trillions off his fraud and theft and lying machine warns of people using his fraud and theft and lying machine to commit fraud

CNN @cnn.com · Jul 22

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the world may be on the precipice of a "fraud crisis" because of how artificial intelligence could enable bad actors to impersonate other people.

Read more: cnn.it/3GVwPg7

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Benjamin Samuel @benjaminsamuel.wtf · Jul 21

I can't wait for you all read Matt's story in BOMB's fall issue!

Benjamin Samuel @benjaminsamuel.wtf · Jul 21

And a special thank you to all who submitted. We had more entries this year than ever before, and the quality of work was remarkable.

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Benjamin Samuel @benjaminsamuel.wtf · Jul 21

With endless gratitude to our guest judge
@kellylink.bsky.social and to all of our readers. 🙏 🙏 🙏

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Benjamin Samuel @benjaminsamuel.wtf · Jul 21

👏 👏 Many congratulations to @mattweinstock.com, the winner of @bombmag.bsky.social's 2025 Fiction Contest, and of our extraordinary finalists! 👏 👏

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BOMB Magazine | Matt Weinstock Wins BOMB’s 2025 Fiction Contest

Weinstock's debut short story was selected by guest judge Kelly Link and will appear in BOMB’s fall issue.

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Benjamin Samuel @benjaminsamuel.wtf · Jul 21

I can't wait for you all read Matt's story in BOMB's fall issue!

Benjamin Samuel @benjaminsamuel.wtf · Jul 21

And a special thank you to all who submitted. We had more entries this year than ever before, and the quality of work was remarkable.

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