Hackneyed, anything but
3:AM recently teamed up with Rik Haslam and his long-running lit night Anything But Hackneyed, to bring Londoners readings from Toby Litt, Heidi James [3:AM’s arts editor] and Lee Rourke [3:AM’s reviews editor]. Ellis Sharp ventured into the “curious place” that is Hackney and writes: The Broadway Bookshop turns out to be the kind of […]
The Raw Dolphin Texts: An Interview With Tao Lin
In Eeeee Eee Eeee a dolphin killed Elijah Wood to relieve severe depression and loneliness. That is not real. Elijah Wood, in the novel, does not exist, and so did not feel pain or suffering when the club hit him in the head and legs and body. I wrote that scene to relieve my own severe depression and boredom and loneliness. Instead of killing Elijah Wood I wrote a scene of a dolphin killing Elijah Wood. The book does not say, “Go kill Elijah Wood if you feel bored”. But the book in combination with me, Tao Lin, has the message, “Go write something to relieve boredom instead of lying on the floor listening to emotional music”.
Justin Dobbs interviews novelist, poet and bear impersonator Tao Lin.
Arise Slack Man
“McJob: a low-pay, low-prestige, low-dignity, low benefit, no-future job in the service sector. Frequently considered a satisfying career choice by people who have never held one.” – Douglas Coupland, Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture, 1991 No less an institution than the British Parliament is now joining McDonalds in their bid to have the […]