An Evening with University of Greenwich writer in residence Paul Ewen, and special guests
Greenwich Book Festival Old Royal Naval College Friday, 22 May 2015 from 7pm onwards Paul Ewen (pictured), author of Francis Plug – How To Be A Public Author, recently longlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize is very proud to host an evening with three of the UK’s most unconventional writers, all working outside the literary ‘scene’. Simon Crump is the author of four books, including My Elvis Blackout and Neverland. He is an internationally exhibited artist, and has lectured in fine art and photography. Stewart Home has authored 15 published novels, one book of short stories, and six books of
Whatever it is, we’re against it.
“Britain is several countries not one. Its sleep too is fragmented. In the morning it raises its eyebrows while one part then another breaks off. It needs to be addressed patiently, with deadly honesty, with some appreciation of its intelligence, even with some affection, especially by those who want it to change, to move from acts of individual altruism (of which it has plenty) to one of socially cohesive altruism. It needs stop raising its eyebrows.”
George Szirtes, and Joanna Walsh on the UK Elections.
The Life and Work of Jonathan Coe
Tuesday 28th May 2015, Institute of English Studies, Senate House, University of London A Brunel Centre for Contemporary Writing & MCFSN Symposium & Public Event to celebrate the life and work of celebrated, award-wining novelist and biographer, Jonathan Coe, on the occasion of the twenty-first anniversary of the publication of his novel, What a Carve Up! (1994) which remains one of the best modern British satires written in the last 50 years. 17.00 – 17.30 Guest Speaker: David Quantick on Coe & Humour 17.30 – 18.45 Jonathan Coe: reading, talk, and Q & A Chair: Philip Tew (Brunel University London)
Words without Borders seeks book reviewers
3:AM editor K. Thomas Kahn has joined the phenomenal Words without Borders as Reviews Editor, in addition to continuing on in the same role here. Words without Borders is currently seeking a fresh batch of bright and eager reviewers to review world literature in English translation. See the call for submissions here for more information, including contact info — and please be sure to help spread the word to other writers, reviewers, translators, authors, and publishers of translated literature!
The Missing Links
The photography of Wim Wenders. * “The Dreadful Mucamas” by Lydia Davis. * Spiderman and fetish art. * An interview with Peter Markus: “Can fiction do that, make a world that is its own, a world that isn’t anchored down by the world in which it is actually written in? Of course it can“. * 3:AM‘s K. Thomas Kahn reviews Nathalie L éger. * Joe Milutis‘s Bright Arrogance column. * Diane Williams: “A splendid plot cannot rescue a project spoiled by deficient language”. * Plastic words. * Lost Book Found by Jem Cohen. * Otto A Totland and Moon Ate
Film Without Film
Post-Nearly Press are publishing two volumes of in-depth interviews with Chris Petit and Iain Sinclair, both conducted by Neil Jackson. Only a limited number of copies will be produced. “When they’re gone that’s it,” says Neil, “it’s a theme that crops up in the conversations.”
Tom McCarthy: ‘Think Tank’
26 Mar 2015 at 7pm Studio, ICA, The Mall, London SW1 Coinciding with the publication of his new novel Satin Island, award-winning author Tom McCarthy is hosting a ‘Think Tank’. Here, director of the Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt, Dr. Cl émentine Deliss, feted media consultant Alfie Spencer and leading critic and novelist Mark Blacklock will discuss the triangle, which is central to McCarthy’s novel, linking anthropology, capitalism and literature within contemporary culture. For more details, see the ICA’s website. [Pic by Andrew Gallix.]
The Dilly: A Secret History of Piccadilly Rent Boys
The Sohemian Society presents… Jeremy Reed at The Wheatsheaf, 25 Rathbone Place, North Soho, W1 Wednesday March 18th, 7.30pm The Dilly is the first comprehensive examination of male prostitution at London’s Piccadilly Circus from the nineteenth century to the present day. On the fringes of Soho, Piccadilly has long been London’s principal location for the illicit sale of sex, and Jeremy Reed explores the history of rent boys from Oscar Wilde’s notorious attraction to the place to the painter Francis Bacon’s predilection for rough trade. The book includes tales of Soho’s clandestine gay clubs from the days when homosexuality was
Satin Island
Tom McCarthy will be in conversation with Hans Ulrich Obrist at Foyles, Level 6, 107 Charing Cross Road on 10 March, 7-8pm. [Pic: Tom McCarthy in 2007 by Andrew Gallix.]
The Missing Links
Cinema without people (via Gorse). * An interview with 3:AM legend Richard Cabut. * Brian Dillon on Gerhard Richter. * Brian Dillon on the topless cellist. * Sam Cooper on the novel after its abandonment. * Enrique Vila-Matas in The White Review‘s translation issue. * Translating the untranslatable. * Untranslatability studies. * Towards an alternative ethics of translation. * Anne Carson‘s “Pronoun Envy”. * Rachel Kushner: “My aspiration to spend time at sea as requisite literary training died long ago, as a teenager, on a white-knuckled ferry ride to Elba during a torrential rainstorm”. * Colm TóibÃn and Rachel Kushner
infinite fictions: “a desire for the unorthodox”
Infinite Fictions, a collection of critical essays on literature and theory by 3:AM co-editor-in-chief David Winters, is available to buy now from Zero Books. From the back cover: David Winters has quickly become a leading voice in the new landscape of online literary criticism. His widely-published work maps the furthest frontiers of contemporary fiction and theory. The essays in this book range from the American satirist Sam Lipsyte to the reclusive Australian genius Gerald Murnane; from the “distant reading” of Franco Moretti to the legacy of Gordon Lish. Meditations on style, form and fictional worlds sit side-by-side with overviews of
