Five for Steve Almond
3:AM: The book cover has lighters in the air at a concert. Is ‘Free Bird’ playing? Is this the ‘Bitchin’ soundtrack’ you’re referring to? SA: Yeah, we went with lighters because i-Phones would have busted our budget. And yes, of course ‘Free Bird’ is playing. Unless otherwise notified, ‘Free Bird’ is ALWAYS playing. But the […]
In the Wake of Curiosity
Cold caplets covered Carrefax’s contraption crouched cannily… It is tempting to start in this way a review of C – the book eagerly anticipated by Tom McCarthy’s admirers for the last couple of years, which at one point was rumoured to contain only words beginning with the eponymous letter. Reader, it does not. Despite the proliferation of c-words, they are interspersed with others. The result is a heady – or, more aptly, captivating – concoction that constantly keeps you switched on. Far from being reduced to a word game, the text is spanned with verbal landmarks which make for a mock exercise in uniconsonantism the author clearly enjoys.
Anna Aslanyan reviews Tom McCarthy‘s latest literary tour de force.
Beckett on the Beach
“If the beach is the one at the start of The Seventh Seal,” what 3:AM‘s editors are reading this summer: Andrew Stevens: Max D écharn é‘s landmark study of rockabilly A Rocket in My Pocket and finally getting hold of C by Tom McCarthy. Oh, and naturally Richard by Ben Myers and The Canal by […]