What you (may have) missed on 3:AM recently:
Fiction ‘Who Knows Where the Time Goes?’ by Alan McCormick, ‘His Tattoos’ by Stuart Evers
Poetry: ‘Four Poems’ by Doug Draime
Non-fiction: Roland Kelts’ Japanamerica column (c/o 3:AM Asia), 3:AM Cult Heroes: Arthur Cravan & Blaise Cendrars
Interviewed: Steven Fowler talks to poet, philosopher & Simon Critchley prot ég ée Bogdana Koljević, Steve Finbow interviews Simon Crump:
I’m obsessed by Émile Zola‘s work, and have been for a very long time. I remember my dad giving me a copy of Germinal to read was I was 13 and being absolutely transfixed by the desperation in that book and above all, its grinding panoramic feel.
As a 13-year-old, Germinal really was a glimpse into another world for me. It felt like growing up as a reader, leaving behind stories with ‘hopeful’ or ‘meaningful’ endings and developing a taste for the real stuff, for the tart and bitter experience of degradation and failure. Which pretty much has been how my own life has turned out.
