Happy Birthday 3:AM!
Launched in April 2000, 3:AM Magazine turns 20 this month!
To celebrate, here’s a brief extract from Will Wiles‘s wonderful novel Plume, which has just come out in paperback:
“But since the appearance of Murder Boards, Pierce had acquired a small but eager following, myself included. His post-riots essay for 3:AM Magazine, ‘Beneath the Paving Stones, the Fire’, had circulated on Twitter and Tumblr for more than a month, and was republished by the New York Times“.
Sensuous Knowledge: A Conversation with Minna Salami
Lived experience is part of what I define as Sensuous Knowledge. The felt and embodied have always been a feminine way of approaching knowledge. Historically it’s been a way for us to make critical interventions to oppression. This has a lot to do with women being excluded from privilege, such as not being allowed to study or write books at different points in history. And for people of African heritage there’s been even more exclusion from those things. So the personal has always been a critical space. I appreciate the type of literature that strives to be strictly objective and academic. But I wanted Sensuous Knowledge to be a holistic reflection of all of life, the mind, body and soul.
Andy West interviews Minna Salami.
3:AM in Lockdown 14: Tom Bradley
China Viruses By Tom Bradley. I stumbled around in China in the mid- to late-eighties, right around the time America’s beloved president was joining the Republican Party. This was during the height of Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy, which the natives called “British Bull Disease”. AIDS was just beginning to scare the Celestials of the Flowery Middle […]