Low-rent Christo
3:AM favourite (well okay, Susan favourite) Chuck Palahniuk is on a North American tour, to promote his 10th novel Pygmy, due out in the UK next month: “I’ve done eyeballs,” Chuck says, “but they’re kind of small. “For a while, I bought thousands of these truly hideous fake arms. They were dripping with blood, and […]
Succour fantasies
Coming to a bookstore near you (and co-edited by 3:AM‘s Max Dunbar):
Punk Fiction
There were stories about the Notting Hill riots, there were stories about Bored Teenagers and there were stories about Being Stranded. There were stories about Outdoor Miners and Germ Free Adolescents and Orgasm Addicts. All punk was about a story. It was about living the story in your own head, good or bad. Whether that story was fact or fiction didn’t matter, as long as it wasn’t boring.
Johnny Marr talks about a new anthology of short stories inspired by punk.
A small improvement upon the truth, reading Charlene Rubinski
I read somewhere where he said about Richmond, he said “Never cross Richmond.” ‘Cause he’d read it, he read Charlene Rubinski. It was right after either what he wrote about me in Women or the 300 Poems poem…I don’t know, I think my name is “Marvin Woodman.” So first of all, he has me down as “He is rich, and I am poor.” He writes about demons and demons in Argentina, and demons in Paraguay, he is the best demon writer in, you know, Zambia. It was great. You know, you’ve got people out there, just craving to be attacked by Bukowski. They used to line up, “Please, Please…”
Ben Pleasants talks to Steve Richmond.