
Exciting news: 3:AM‘s co-editor Lee Rourke has signed a deal with Melville House Publishing in New York for his novel The Canal. Home to such authors as Benoit Duteurtre, Tao Lin and Stephen Dixon, MHP are, as Lee says, “mouthwateringly independent” [you can read an interview with MHP’s Dennis Loy Johnson here]. To celebrate Lee’s news, he shares with us the last five books he recently read:
1. Camera – Jean-Philippe Toussaint
2. Very Little . . . Almost Nothing – Simon Critchley
3. The Question Concerning Technology – Martin Heidegger
4. Unfinished Ode to Mud – Francis Ponge
5. The Bird Room – Chris Killen