What you (may have) missed on 3:AM last week:
Poetry by Jake Severn
Reviewed: Richard Marshall on Graham Bendel‘s A Nasty Piece of Work – “better than American Psycho” – and Andrew Stevens on Richard Milward‘s Ten Storey Love Song – “a tad laboured, not exactly perfect but pleasing all the same”
Non-fiction: Gaby Bila-Günther on the Berlin poetry scene, Barbara Foster on m énage à trois & Sophie Parkin on the changing face of Soho
Interviewed: A Totally Wired conversation between Andrew Gallix & Simon Reynolds:
3:AM: As you write in the introduction to Totally Wired, “Books continue to write themselves in your head long after the official end of the project” which is why you have several blogs which you use to publish “footnotes” to your books. What impact has the internet had on rock criticism?
Simon Reynolds: That’s too big a question, really. But one effect it’s had on me is this idea that I can put the left-overs and stray thoughts on the web — it has made me more comfortable with the cutting of things down to size, whether it’s an article or a book. I can run the director’s cut version or the ideas that were never integrated into the piece on the web, for the small minority of people who are interested.
