{"id":25261,"date":"2010-06-27T09:07:16","date_gmt":"2010-06-27T09:07:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=25261"},"modified":"2010-06-27T13:00:37","modified_gmt":"2010-06-27T13:00:37","slug":"3am-reloaded-64","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/3am-reloaded-64\/","title":{"rendered":"3:AM Reloaded"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What you (may have) missed on 3:AM<\/em> this week:<\/p>\n

Non-fiction:<\/b> ‘Obscenity is Whatever Gives a Judge an Erection’<\/a>, Charlotte Young on the Semina<\/em> book launch; ‘Syntheses of Resistance & Transformation’<\/a>, John-Patrick Ayson on Joseph Beuys’ I Love America..<\/em> & Harold Jaffe’s Jesus Coyote<\/em><\/p>\n

Reviewed:<\/b> Cathi Unsworth on Barry Miles’ London Calling: A Countercultural History of London since 1945<\/a><\/em>; Trev HAGL on Steve Bruce’s The Best Seat in the House: A Cock Sparrer Story<\/a><\/em>; Andrew Stevens on Ian Thomson’s The Dead Yard: A Story of Modern Jamaica<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Interviewed:<\/b> Chris Killen talks to Zachary German<\/a>:<\/p>\n

Chris Killen:<\/b> Stylistically it is consistent throughout, written in a very pared-down, minimalist way \u2013 \u201cRobert turns off the light. Robert turns on the light. (etc)”<\/em> \u2013 Did you find these stylistic choices \u2018trapping’ or \u2018freeing’? How did you come to choose this style to write in?<\/p>\n

Zachary German:<\/b> I found that style very freeing. I am easily overwhelmed when looking at a blank Word document, and it is a lot easier if I know exactly what I’m going to write. So I can just say \u201cThis is what happens” and write that down, in a very specific format. The part I like the most is the editing I do later, where I change the word \u201cRobert” to the word \u201cHe,” or vice versa, things like that. Having very small, specific choices seems fun.<\/p>\n

CK:<\/b> Is the character of Sam actually Tao Lin<\/b>? And in Shoplifting From American Apparel<\/em>, is Robert you?<\/p>\n

ZG:<\/b> Oh\u2026 it’s just a novel, Chris.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What you (may have) missed on 3:AM this week: Non-fiction: ‘Obscenity is Whatever Gives a Judge an Erection’, Charlotte Young on the Semina book launch; ‘Syntheses of Resistance & Transformation’, John-Patrick Ayson on Joseph Beuys’ I Love America.. & Harold Jaffe’s Jesus Coyote Reviewed: Cathi Unsworth on Barry Miles’ London Calling: A Countercultural History of […]<\/p>\n","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-25261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buzzwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25261","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=25261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25261\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}