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The Missing Links published 05/02/2012

“Anyone who believes that you can make art from language is part of a small, nearly-vanishing community, and we should all form a wedge and march on the enemy.” Ben Marcus interviewed. * All the Words from Michel Foucault’s “The Order of Things - An Archaeology of Human Sciences” in Alphabetical Order. * Ewan Morrison [...]

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The Missing Links published 29/01/2012

An in-depth interview with 3:AM’s one-man avant-garde movement Matthew Wascovich in the Village Voice. * The trouble with productivity. * Back to the Futurism. * David Foster Wallace on the future of fiction in the information age (video). * The phantom metro stations of Paris. * The unknown pleasures of Mickey Mouse. * Ray Bradbury’s [...]

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The Missing Links published 23/01/2012

Marcel Duchamp on French TV, 1963. * A new short story by Lydia Davis. * Tim Parks vs David Shields. More here. * A critique of logocentrism. * Installing the Lloyd Johnson exhibition. * Justin Taylor interviews Gary Lutz. * Unsaid Magazine. * Mark Fisher on the non-places in Steve McQueen’s non-film. * The [...]

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The Missing Links published 15/01/2012

Andrew Gallix on death of literature. * Why write novels at all? * Is literary fiction a sham? * Photography-embedded fiction. * W.G. Sebald’s eleven books to read for a class on major trends in European fiction (via @timesflow). * Why brutality makes David Lynch laugh. * On Bela Tarr’s The Turin Horse. * Inside [...]

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The Missing Links published 08/01/2012

Modernism and music in 2012. * Remembering Josef Skvorecky & Michael Dummett. * Camus offers half-time analysis of a Paris-Monaco match (not quite Monty Python). * Michael Moorcock on Alfred Jarry, “one of the most influential writers of modern times”. * Details of the three panels to be devoted to Tom McCarthy’s work at the [...]

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No subject is terrible if the story is true published 06/01/2012

And, via Bookslut, James Campbell’s ‘Ernest Hemingway: war hero, big-game hunter, ‘gin-soaked abusive monster” in the TLS.

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Don’t Let Me Die in Black & White published 03/01/2012

Alan Moore’s travelogue through his beloved Northampton, 1993 (via Dangerous Minds).

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That Was the Year That Was: Interviews published 02/01/2012

In 2011 3:AM spoke to:
Grace Krilanovich
Jayne Joso
Justin Sullivan
Kaaron Warren
The Cardiacs
Victor LaValle
Will Stone
Rachel Trezise
Stuart Evers
David Shields
Janice Lee
Brandon Tietz
Jenn Ashworth
Alan Moore
David Rose
Tony Black
A.C. Grayling
Jarett Kobek
Luke Kennard
Steve Himmer
Gary Lutz
Kevin Williamson
Max Wallis
Stephen Barber
Jonathan Trigell
Helen Walsh
McKenzie Wark
Ron Peck
Teju Cole
Iain Sinclair
Gary J. Shipley, Kenji Siratori & Reza Negarestani
Jean-Michel Rabaté
John Holten
Ben Brooks
Lars Iyer
Alina Simone
Craig Taylor
Richard Bradford
David Enrique Spellman
Peter Carruthers
Diane Coyle
Josh Knobe
Brian Leiter
Scott [...]

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That Was the Year That Was: Books published

In 2011 we reviewed:
Fiction:
Andrej Blatnik’s You Do Understand
Dawn Raffel’s Further Adventures in the Restless Universe
Julian Barnes’ Pulse
Michael Peverett’s The Littlest Feeling
Brandon Tietz’s Out of Touch
Charlie Caselton’s Meanwhile Gardens: An Urban Adventure
Daniel Kramb’s Dark Times
Dan Vyleta’s The Quiet Twin
Carl Hiaasen’s Star Island
Richard Kalich’s Penthouse F
Joseph McElroy’s Night Soul and Other Stories
Sam Leith’s The Coincidence [...]

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