3:AM Magazine

By Andrew Stevens. “Sick city / Gonna be my death, gonna be the death of me” Lee Ranaldo once described Ray Loriga‘s My Brother’s Gun as like “the rush of an electric guitar riff charging up your spine”. Tony O’Neill‘s meth-fuelled crawl through Los Angeles’ underbelly pretty much wires your nipples to the motel mains, [...]

There’s an excellent essay by Ken Hollings in this month’s INTO magazine, commissioned for the Sonar festival and a history of British electronic music that includes Joe Meek [read Cathi Unsworth on Meek], Ghost Box records and (3:AM favourites) the Radiophonic Workshop, in the context of British science fiction and as bygone visions of the [...]

An interview with Barry Gifford: “When [David] Lynch had written the first screenplay it was exactly like the book. The ending was the same and all that sort of thing. And then there was some debate about putting a happy ending on Wild at Heart. He called me up and said, “What happens? Do Sailor [...]

Cathi Unsworth will be reading (alongside some others) at the new To Hell with the Lighthouse literary night (Gavin James Bower and Evie Wyld read at the last one), which takes place at Peter Parker’s Rock ‘n’ Roll Club on Denmark Street (where The Rolling Stones recorded their first album, The Kinks did ‘You Really [...]

The annual East End Film Festival takes place later this month. Opening night is taken up with a special screening of Bronco Bullfrog (1969), ahead of its BFI Flipside showing and DVD release in June. Director Barney Platts-Mills‘ steer was to “take a neighbourhood and make a film to represent or reflect that place by [...]

1) What is your favourite motto? That’s a tricky one, though I’d have to say a favourite of mine is, “If you can’t beat them, fight dirty.” Another one I have been known to use quite often after half a bottle of pink gin and those delicious and perfectly legal highs called Lime Fantasy is [...]

Lots on at the London Word Festival not least Avant! Noir, an evening of music & dark fiction from Cathi Unswoth & Toby Litt, while Iain Sinclair introduces Chris McCabe‘s play Shad Thames, Broken Wharf. London Word Festival, 7 March – 1 April 2010 Various venues

“I’m not a luddite. I’m just not the guy with apps.” The Rumpus interview Sam Lipsyte. * “You mourn the passing of your last book, and then you have to figure out what it is you write now.” Sam Lipsyte in conversation with Michael Kimball. * And Lipsyte in The Daily Beast on Gordon Lish: [...]

Today’s quick lit [& alt.cult] links from around the web: Dazed interview Cathi Unsworth [Garth Cartwright's & Andrew Stevens' interviews with Cathi on 3:AM] & David Peace‘s true crimes & Taki’s tall Salinger tales & Mina Loy, woman of the avant-garde [see also, Arthur Cravan] & Ben Myers on homelessness lit & Young, literary London [...]

“In the meanwhile, it would be best to get drunk. He did so.” Andrew Stevens on The Gorse Trilogy: The Hamilton back catalogue forms an odd assortment, with Twenty Thousand Streets Under The Sky out in Vintage Classics and Hangover Square still doing well as a Penguin Modern Classic, while Impromptu in Moribundia, his most [...]