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Claire-Louise Bennett at Le Rostand, Paris

To coincide with the Sound System Outernational ‘Strictly Vinyl’ Weekender at Goldsmiths (CAYA Soundsystem pictured), here’s a collection of early 3:AM interviews by Greg Whitfield. Aba Shanti – ‘Dub Wisers’ (April 2003) Don Letts – ‘The Rebel Dread’ (June 2003) Tessa Pollitt – ‘Earthbeat’ (November 2003) Keith Levene – ‘Looking For Something’ (May 2004) DJ Scratchy – ‘Roots and Wanderings’ (November 2004)

‘The Digital Critic: Literary Culture Online‘ with Houman Barekat, Joanna Walsh and Robert Barry Wednesday 10th January, 7pm Entry £3, redeemable against any purchase Our guests take stock of the so-called Literary Internet up to the present moment, and considers the future of criticism: its promise, its threats of decline, and its potential mutation, in a world of Facebook likes, Twitter wars, and Amazon book reviews.nbsp; What do we think of when we think of literary critics? Enlightenment snobs in powdered wigs? Professional experts? Cloistered academics? Through the end of the 20th century, book review columns and literary magazines held

Stephen Barber / Eley Williams / Marina Lambrou WRITERS’ CENTRE KINGSTON PRESENTS A LITERARY EVENT ABOUT LOVING JANUARY THURSDAY 11TH : 7PM – FREE ENTRY / THE ROSE THEATRE, KINGSTON Rose Theatre Kingston, 24-26 High Street, Kingston KT1 1HL The theme for this event is Loving. Each of the three speakers will respond as they see fit to the theme – with a new piece of literature or an informal talk, an academic lecture or a performance. They might shape or excerpt a previous work for the night or create brand new fiction, non-fiction, theatre or poetry. Their choice of

19th February @ The Social, 5 Little Portland St, W1 Faber Social and Tony White Present: UNDER THE PAVING STONES: A Night of Experimental Fiction Featuring readings from: KIRSTY GUNN ‘Gunn’s prose is accomplished, poetic, and haunting.’ Times Literary Supplement TONY WHITE ‘A serious, engaging voice of the modern city’ Guardian STEWART HOME ‘Stewart Home is one of our most important and interesting novelists.’ New Statesman JOANNA WALSH ‘Joanna Walsh is clever, funny and merciless.’ Yuri Herrera IPHGENIA BAAL ‘One of London’s most potent secrets.’ Iain Sinclair ELEY WILLIAMS She has in common with George Saunders the ability to be both playful and profound, and

Sad news. The philosopher Bob Hale has died. He had been a British Academy Research Reader (1997-9), was a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh (elected 2000), was President of the Aristotelian Society in 2002-3, and a Leverhulme Major Research Fellow (2009-11). He became an emeritus professor at Sheffield University in 2011. Much of his work was in the philosophy of mathematics. During a long and continuing collaboration with Crispin Wright, he defended an approach to the foundations of mathematics inspired by Frege, combining a deflationary version of platonism with a form of logicism, according to which mathematical knowledge

Friday 15th December, 10am – 6pm, Common Ground, Institute of Advanced Studies, UCL South Wing Department of English Language and Literature – Symposium on the City Keynote: Iain Sinclair, ‘The Sickness and the Shadow: Living with Dead Buildings’ No need to book – Full programme available here.

I met him in New York some time before interviewing him for the End Times series. I was doing a Beckett talk at Rutgers and on a whim dropped him a line and said I’d be passing through NY on my way home and would he like to meet up. He straight away replied and we had a coffee in the Lincoln Centre and talked opera and philosophy. I was nervous because he was known to be a no-nonsense ball-breaker. Well, we chatted away and it was great. He was smart and hilarious. And a few months later I asked

Claire-Louise Bennett and Joanna Walsh at the University of Kent in Paris.

November Saturday 25th, 2017 : 7pm – Free entry Poem Brut at Rich Mix, 35-47 Bethnal Green Rd, London E1 6LA A literary event celebrating of the visual, visceral, messy, handwritten and colourful in poetry with new unique commissions from writers exploring alternate ways of making literature. Each presentation will be different from the last, with readings, performances and talks alongside pop up exhibits, interactions, video poems and more. Featuring new works from Harry Man, Imogen Reid, Stephen Emmerson, Hiromi Suzuki, Paul Hawkins, Chloe Spicer, Kate Wakeling, Christian Patracchini, Patrick Cosgrove and Christopher Stephenson. These works will explore the possibilities

Join us for an exciting evening of readings by contemporary experimental authors from Equus Press, Minor Literature[s] & 3:AM Magazine on 11th November. CONFIRMED READERS: Louis Armand – author of eight novels and ten collections of poetry, most recently The Combinations (2016) and East Broadway Rundown (2015). Daniela Cascella – her work is focused on sound, literature, and art, driven by a longstanding interest in the relationship between listening, reading, writing & translating. Lara Alonso Corona – a freelance writer of noir, sci-fi and literary fiction. London via Gijón. Juliet Jacques – author of a book on English avant-garde author

Blackwell’s Bookshop is delighted to host our annual Oxford University Press Philosophy Festival, which will be running from Thursday 16th November until Sunday 19th November. This year the festival includes a range of free events, featuring an evening to celebrate the publication of Clare Chambers latest publication ‘Against Marriage’, the insightful Very Short Introduction Speed-dating event and a whole weekend of talks and discussions. On Sunday 19th November at 11:30pm, Richard Marshall will be discussing his new book ‘Ethics at 3am‘. What do ethicists and moral philosophers really think about? What are the most pressing concerns in the discipline today?