What you (may have) missed on 3:AM recently:
Fiction: ‘Vague Obscenities’ by David Erlewine, ‘Angel Beach’ by Joseph Ridgwell
Reviewed: Max Dunbar on Gregor Muir’s Lucky Kunst: The Rise and Fall of Young British Art
Non-fiction: Roland Kelts’ Japanamerica on how anime has to transcend the Japan ‘national’ brand
Poetry: Van Gogh’s Ear VII: An American Hangover, Darran Anderson on the legacy of Charles Bukowski
Interviewed: Alan Kelly has ‘Five For’ Aleathia Drehmer & goes inside D. Harlan Wilson’s head, Susan Tomaselli talks to Blake Butler:
[Samuel] Beckett is definitely someone I have spent a lot of time thinking about and will spend the rest of my life thinking about. He does more with sense and affect in sound of motion than just about anybody before and after him. Every reread is a new read, and those are the kinds of books my favorite kinds of books exist to be. Puzzles and lockboxes, collections of small doors. That people see any of him in my writing is a great compliment. For Scorch Atlas in particular, I sometimes see the book as the collision of everything I’d read before then coming out in one deluge. I’d been trying so hard to make something years before that, writing book after book in manuscript on my hard drive never getting it right. Then something in me clicked and these words came out.
First posted: Sunday, March 7th, 2010.
