Author: Tom Tomorrow

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An artist interview

Last spring, BOMB magazine asked me to interview my friend the dissident artist Victoria Lomasko, who fled Russia during the initial invasion of Ukraine and is currently living in exile in Europe. They finally published it last week and you can read it here.

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The future’s so bright, I can’t bear to look

(An excerpt from a speech I gave to the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies in Madison, Wisconsin on July 11, 2025.)

I want to close out with some thoughts on this liminal space between print and online we have all been trying to navigate for a pretty long time now, and where I think it might be heading.

I think it’s fair to say that things aren’t great right now. haven’t been for awhile. There are a lot of AAN papers that have gone to that great recycling bin in the sky. print editions are a lot thinner than they used to be.  some papers have gone online-only.  and yet … maybe I’m being overly optimistic — a thing I am definitely known for — but I feel like this is a really promising moment for an altweekly resurgence.

For one thing, there’s a palpable hunger for voices of opposition to the maga shitshow, and god knows democrats and the mainstream media have not been up to the task. Don’t even get me started on the New York Times, which just last week fell for yet another Chris Rufo psy-op. And meanwhile the internet is consuming itself. It’s filled with clickbait garbage and a.i. slop and a.i. slop training on clickbait garbage and it’s getting worse every day. It’s just an increasingly unpleasant experience, we all know that.

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