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Last Orders

Bear Parade has published 3:AM poetry editors Ellen Kennedy and Tao Lin‘s novel, Hikikomori, the only novel about hikikomori currently in existence and the largest Bear Parade book ever, so far. Apparently it stars “werner herzog, richard yates, kurt vonnegut, kevin sampsell, brian beatty, john updike, bony hard asses, obese ugly fish, jets to brazil, […]

Hospital

mk.jpgIt might well be the end of the world; it might be a boy’s nightmare; it may well be a dying-man’s last thoughts; it may even be the coming of the Messiah. It is, of course, none of these things and all of these things. Hospital is an exquisitely twisted alternate world full of diabolical surgeons, violent thugs and perverted druggies.

Glenn Fisher enjoys Toby Litt‘s new novel.

Excerpt: Memphis Underground III

Once I was in London, I went to a pub in Euston Street where I had several pints with Richard Marshall, who’d written an essay about me for the 3:AM website. We talked about Hazlitt, and Richard suggested my plagiaristic tendencies made me a far more typical representative of English literary traditions than jokers like Julian Barnes or Martin Amis.

The final exclusive excerpt from Stewart Home‘s Memphis Underground.

Noir in New Orleans

Jeri Cain Rossi, 3:AM contributor and author of the gorgeous and dangerous Red Wine Moan, will read from New Orleans Noir this Thursday at the Garden District Bookshop. New Orleans Noir editor Julie Smith and contributors James Nolan, Patty Friedman, Ted O’Brien, Greg Herren, and Chris Wiltz will also read. Free cocktails from New Orleans […]