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A public event celebrating the recent boom in online criticism, and encouraging readers to get involved in the growth of digital literary culture. Editors from three leading online literary reviews, 3:AM Magazine, Review 31 and Berfrois, will participate in a panel discussion exploring: – the current proliferation of online reviews and magazines, and its implications for contemporary literary culture – the democratisation of criticism in the online landscape: in a world without journalistic gatekeepers, can anyone be a critic? – the distinctive challenges and opportunities facing the new generation of online literary journals Following the panel discussion, an extended Q&A

Please join us to celebrate the publication of David Winters’  Infinite Fictions and Steve Finbow’s  Grave Desire, both available now from Zero Books. David and Steve will be joined by special guests Lee Rourke, Jonathan Gibbs and Paul Ewen for an evening of drinks and literary discussion. 23rd January 2013, 7pm The Function Room, Phoenix Road, London

I particularly want to read critics and criticism of books from my side of planet Earth — everything from Kiribati to Kazakhstan. You do not need a lengthy bibliography behind you to be considered for publication — you have to start somewhere and, in fact, it’d be a thrill if that start was here — but I ask that you familiarise yourself with the criticism 3:AM favours — it’s honest, adept, fearless, and so, at times, contrary — and have something ready to show me when submitting or pitching (3:AM’s submission guidelines). Who am I? My name is Tristan Foster

Asymptote journal hosts a London event to celebrate four years of international literature and translation. Granta Best Young British Novelist Adam Thirlwell, acclaimed translators Daniel Hahn and Deborah Smith, and founder and publisher of And Other Stories Stefan Tobler will come together to discuss international translation and the contemporary global literary scene.

Crazy in love. * Elena Ferrante: “I didn’t choose anonymity; I chose absence”. * An interview with Laure Prouvost. * Tom McCarthy on reality, realism, and the real. * Tom McCarthy on Gravity’s Rainbow. * Simon Critchley: suicide — a defence. * Erasing Duchamp. * An interview with Cioran. * Paul Muldoon on Beckett. * An interview with  B éla Tarr. * A celebration of Lynne Tillman. * Lydia Davis interviews Dan Gunn. * Jacques Mesrine‘s death instinct. * An answer to the novel’s detractors. * Seventies throwback fiction: “How sad does one have to be to want to resuscitate

3:AM contributing and reviews editor K. Thomas Kahn has asked fellow writers, critics, editors, and translators to choose the best books they read in 2014. This series kicked off today with Kahn’s own choices, and will continue—on his Tumblr and his Twitter feeds—likely through the end of next week.

“Zero books was one of the happiest surprises of my life. It was begun as a gesture with no hope of success, and would have been nothing without the support of John Hunt and a core of singularly talented writers that mainstream publishing had contrived to ignore. The qualified influence Zero has had on cultural life, and the way it has shown that titles that might have been dismissed as crazy can in fact sell in decent quantities, is something I will always regard as an achievement. To walk away from that, even though I spent six of the seven

3:AM Fiction Editor Joanna Walsh — who curated the #Readwomen2014 project — will be joined on Monday by Deborah Levy, Zoe Pilger, Juliet Jacques, and Rachel Genn to celebrate “a year of reading writing by women”. WATERSTONES HAMPSTEAD Monday, 8 December 2014, 7:00PM Tickets £3/ £5

  Kafka directed by David Lynch doesn’t even come close. It is the most hauntingly original book I’ve read in a very long time. Nicholas Rombes‘ The Absolution of Roberto Acestes Laing is a strong contender for novel of the year.