David Bowman

  • Karen Finley smears Bush all over

    The notorious performance artist talks about censorship, where Bush will go after he dies, and her new work "George and Martha," in which Martha Stewart has a tryst with W. and finds Osama hiding in his colon.
    By David Bowman April 22, 2006

  • An officer and a gentleman

    Elegant 80-year-old fiction writer and ex-military pilot James Salter talks about writing sex scenes, meeting the "charming" John Updike, and being rejected by the New Yorker.
    By David Bowman June 17, 2005

  • The haunted 50s

    In his new book about being middle-aged, James Atlas explores subjects writers rarely tackle: Limitation and loss.
    By David Bowman April 17, 2005

  • The world according to Nova

    Novelist Craig Nova talks about Camus, New England exotica, and what it's like to be a writers' writer.
    By David Bowman October 7, 2004

  • The king and queen of lower Manhattan

    It was the night of the '77 blackout, and Natalie and I found ourselves naked between the twin towers.
    By David Bowman July 12, 2004

  • Citizen Flynt

    The hustler's new book accuses the president of paying for an illegal abortion, the press of lying down on the job and Ann Coulter of being a "fag hag."
    By David Bowman July 8, 2004

  • Letters

    Readers attack: David Bowman's Biskind interview is a corporate sellout, the New York Times is right to banish literary obscurities, and Paul Waldman's "Fraud" -- and Salon in general -- are too harsh on George W. Bush.
    February 12, 2004

  • Harpooning Hollywood

    Peter Biskind talks about Harvey Weinstein, Robert Redford, his new book, "Down and Dirty Pictures," and the wild stories he can't tell about '70s Hollywood.
    By David Bowman February 2, 2004

  • Corsets, threesomes and fleshy French thighs

    A Kinsey Institute exhibition shows that female desires burn just as brightly as men's.
    By David Bowman January 23, 2004

  • The man who loved women

    Photography collector and editor Peter Fetterman talks about the naked woman as landscape -- and why women look hotter reading Proust.
    By David Bowman December 24, 2003

  • E-mail me way hard, baby

    An Israeli philosophy professor says that online love can be more powerful than off-line because, after all, sex is about the brain, isn't it?
    By David Bowman December 18, 2003

  • Burning down the house

    A definitive new box set will proclaim the eclectic greatness of Talking Heads when the ugliness between David Byrne and Tina Weymouth has long been forgotten.
    By David Bowman December 3, 2003

  • The seductress

    The author of a new book says if women want to seduce powerful men, their best weapon is brains, not boobs.
    By David Bowman October 31, 2003

  • Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands

    English singer-songwriter Thea Gilmore, at just 23, is the genuine heiress to the Bob Dylan-Leonard Cohen-Tom Waits legacy of dark, brilliant indie folk-rock.
    By David Bowman September 29, 2003

  • A naked woman is never ironic

    Historian Jessica Glasscock chats about the first striptease, pasties, pubic landing strips, and the nude-friendly hippies who raised her.
    By David Bowman September 26, 2003

  • Adultery as an act of cultural rebellion

    Laura Kipnis, author of "Against Love," talks about Newt Gingrich's wanderings and the absurd dream of monogamy.
    By David Bowman September 3, 2003

  • Traci talks

    Former underage porn queen Traci Lords chats about how Ronald Reagan saved her life, dressing like a pony for a Japanese spanking party, and how she's helping teen girls out of the kind of life she led.
    By David Bowman August 1, 2003

  • Ann Coulter, woman

    The right's she-devil talks about why she loves the Grateful Dead, what Tolstoy and Dostoevsky taught her about life, and how she meets men.
    By David Bowman July 25, 2003

  • Black garters and riding crops

    Photographer Ellen von Unwerth talks about her new S/M fantasy book, "Revenge," in which the wicked baroness finally gets what's coming to her.
    By David Bowman July 18, 2003

  • The "Sex Woman"

    Erica Jong talks about being married to a schizophrenic, the invention of naked women, Henry Miller's erotic fantasies, what's wrong with Bush and -- of course -- the zipless you-know-what.
    By David Bowman June 14, 2003

  • When nudists swung

    Reliving the glory days of Jaybird, the mid-'60s magazine for randy nature lovers.
    By David Bowman April 11, 2003

  • Innocence abroad

    Anti-irony crusader Jedediah Purdy, back from the Middle East, talks about terrorism, violence, the Calvinist heritage of Las Vegas and his new book about America's role in the world.
    By David Bowman March 4, 2003

  • Before women had pubic hair

    Scholar Peter Gay talks about "Exposed: The Victorian Nude" at the Brooklyn Museum of Art.
    By David Bowman September 13, 2002

  • Mr. Spock's nudes

    Leonard Nimoy talks about religion, Vulcans, sexuality, getting up at 5 a.m. and his love of photographing naked women.
    By David Bowman September 6, 2002

  • The invention of the nude in America

    Thomas Eakins caused quite a stir by encouraging his male and female painting students to get naked for each other.
    By David Bowman August 30, 2002
Page 1 of 5    oldest ⇒
Salon Directory › d › David Bowman (102 stories)

From Salon's blogs