“To say he had a way with words is something of an understatement \u2013 a way with rampaging, amphetamine-crazed, cock-shaft metaphors was closer to the truth. He was a journalist who didn’t so much write as spit, curse and hyperventilate. He was brilliant.”<\/em> Tim Jonze<\/a> on the late Steve Wells<\/a>. More here<\/a>. * Coming soon from Damaged Goods Records<\/a>, Archive From 1959 – The Billy Childish<\/b> Story<\/em>, a 51-track triple vinyl or double CD compilation. * Ben Myers’ (postcard) Message from the Country<\/a>. * Bukowski<\/b> letter sells for $1,500<\/a>. It reads: “Hold, dear, hold to the fucking walls, and soon you’ll be laughing, you’ll be thinking, how did I ever let it get hold of me like that? All we need is time \u2013 to straighten out, feel better, and then make the same mistake all over again.”<\/i> (via @bookdepository<\/a>) * Kevin O’Neill’s report<\/a> on the Michael Moorcock<\/b> \/ Iain Sinclair<\/b> \/ Alan Moore<\/b> event (via @stml<\/a>) * Michael Moorcock<\/b>‘s call to preserve memories of London<\/a>: The rise of psychogeography<\/a> was in some ways an impulse to rediscover those old natural paths that I and others like me had trodden through the ruins, to find ways of rediscovering serious memory, something which Peter Ackroyd<\/b> (with Chatterton), Alan Moore<\/a> (From Hell) and Will Self<\/a> (The Book of Dave) were searching out among the virtual ruins of a London that was becoming a shadow played out on the newly tarted-up walls of Notting Hill and Shadwell.<\/i> * ‘Literary London’ is dead. Good riddance<\/a><\/i> * Suburbia needs a new literary champion<\/a> * Derek McCormack<\/b>‘s The Show That Smells<\/i> day at Dennis Cooper’s blog<\/a> * Tropic of Cancer<\/i>, Ewan Morrison’s book of a lifetime<\/a>, the “only book in my parents’ bookcase which was turned the wrong way round with the spine hidden”<\/i> [read Ewan in 3:AM<\/i> here<\/a>] * Courtesy of A Piece of Monologue<\/a>, William Burroughs<\/b> and Susan Sontag<\/b> on meeting Beckett<\/b>: “He received us in a very courtly way and we sat at a very big long table. He waited for us to talk. Allen<\/b> [Ginsberg<\/b>] was, as usual, very forthcoming and did a great deal of talking. He did manage to draw Beckett out asking him about Joyce<\/b>. That was somehow deeply embarrassing to me. Then we talked about singing, and Beckett and Allen began to sing while I was getting more and more embarrassed.”<\/i> * Is this<\/a> the future bookstore? * Len Deighton<\/b>‘s Action Cook Book<\/i> is back!<\/a> * Poetry sells!<\/a> * ‘”The death of literature”, or something’<\/a>, an interview with Brandon Scott Gorrell<\/b> [read his ‘Two Poems’<\/a>, ‘Hardware’<\/a> & ‘my personal ad from the stranger’s dating website is entirely unsuccessful’<\/a> in 3:AM<\/i>] * Maud Newton & Alexander Chee<\/a> on Jean Rhys<\/b>‘ & Ford Maddox Ford<\/b>‘s affair and the vengeful novels they wrote afterward * [Image: Alphbunny<\/a>]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10309","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buzzwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/119"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10309"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10309\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10309"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10309"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10309"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}