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The mighty Lee Rourke ahead of his reading. Lee’s “Ten Fragments of an Idea of Paris Already Imagine by You” is on p. 350 of We’ll Never Have Paris.

The legendary Sam Jordison at The Haggerston in London. Sam’s “Still Paris” is on p. 511 of We’ll Never Have Paris.

We’ll Never Have Paris, edited by 3:AM‘s Andrew Gallix, will be launched at Burley Fisher Books in London (7.30-9.30pm) on 22nd May: Edited by Andrew Gallix, We’ll Never Have Paris is a new collection of fiction and essays about, set in or inspired by the French capital as it exists in the Anglophone literary imagination. It features contributions from an abundance of literary stars, including Tom McCarthy, Eley Williams, Max Porter, Brian Dillon, Jennifer Hodgson, Sophie Mackintosh, Stewart Home and many many more. Join us for an evening of talk and readings with the contributors, chaired by Sam Jordison and

Let us propel us for the frey of the fray! Us, us, beraddy! Finneganight is on Saturday 4th May (the actual publication date of James Joyce’s Finnegans Wake in 1939). It is a gathering of enthusiasts, sceptics and the well-disposed uncommitted who would all like to celebrate the world’s most difficult book. This is emphatically not an academic bunfight. Finneganight is a one-off pop-up Dadaist cabaret, created to mark the 80th anniversary of the publication by Faber & Faber of Joyce’s astonishing masterpiece. It’s an antidote to the garish commercial cavortings of Bloomsday but is nevertheless likely to get a

IN-STORE EVENT  at HOUSMANS Wednesday 27th March, 7pm – tickets in advance from  HERE £3 redeemable against any purchase on the night Join Lucy-Anne Holmes and Robert Woodshaw as they delve into the passions and frustrations that led them to write about sex and politics. With dramatised readings*, author interviewing author, and a frank Q and A, this going to be unlike any author event you’ve been to. Lucy-Anne Holmes, award-winning rom-com writer and founder of the successful No More Page 3 campaign, talks about her memoir Don’t Hold My Head Down. The story of how she found feminism through

IN-STORE EVENT  at HOUSMANS Wednesday 20th March, 7pm – tickets in advance from  HERE £3 redeemable against any purchase on the night Society has never known what to do with its rebellious women. Those who defied expectations about feminine behaviour have long been considered dangerous and unnatural, and ever since the Victorian era they have been removed from public view, locked up and often forgotten about. Many of these women ended up at HM Prison Holloway, the self-proclaimed ‘terror to evil-doers’ which, until its closure in 2016, was western Europe’s largest women’s prison. First built in 1852 as a House

In 2005 3:AM interviewed the godfather  of American avant-garde filmmaking: “When I came to the United States I had to go to Chicago. That was my destination. But then we came by boat with my brother and we landed in New York. And right there, on pier 21 or whatever, we looked at Manhattan and we said, “We are in Manhattan, we are in New York. Wouldn’t it be stupid to go to Chicago?” We stayed in New York, and never went to Chicago. Of course, had we gone to Chicago we would have been very good bakers!” Read the

Gary Gutting, emeritus professor of philosophy at the University of Notre Dame, has died. Professor Gutting worked on  philosophy of religion, philosophy of science, contemporary French philosophy, and contemporary analytic philosophy.  He was well-known for his substantial work in public philosophy, authoring several columns and conducting  a number of interviews with philosophers for  The Stone feature in  The New York Times. Also, he  was the creator and a long-time co-editor of  Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews (NDPR). More here at Daily Nous and Leiter Reports. An extract from his 3:AM interview:   ‘I have always been interested in skeptical challenges to