{"id":25758,"date":"2010-07-11T07:57:31","date_gmt":"2010-07-11T07:57:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=25758"},"modified":"2010-07-11T07:57:31","modified_gmt":"2010-07-11T07:57:31","slug":"3am-reloaded-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/3am-reloaded-66\/","title":{"rendered":"3:AM<\/em> Reloaded"},"content":{"rendered":"
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What you (may have) missed on 3:AM<\/em> this week:<\/p>\n

Flash fiction:<\/b> ‘Forget the Fucking Swans’<\/a> by Sam Jordison; ‘An American Flag’<\/a> by Alan McCormick & Jonny Voss<\/p>\n

Poetry:<\/b> In the nineteenth of his Maintenant<\/em> series SJ Fowler interviews the Greek poet Krystalli Glyniadakis<\/a>; ‘Five Poems<\/a> by Krystalli Glyniadakis<\/p>\n

Non-fiction:<\/b> Courtesy of 3:AM Asia<\/a><\/em>, Japanamerica: ‘Create & Play, Anime Avatars in the USA’<\/a> by Roland Kelts<\/p>\n

Reviewed:<\/b> Colin Herd on Pierre Guyotat’s Coma<\/a><\/em>; Jonathan Woods on Ron Rash’s Burning Bright<\/a><\/em>; Max Dunbar on Why Statues Weep: The Best of The Skeptic<\/em><\/a>, Peter Sloterdijk’s Rage and Time: A Psychopolitical Investigation<\/em><\/a> & Bret Easton Ellis’ Imperial Bedrooms<\/em><\/a>:<\/p>\n

The critics have a point; the overwhelming vibe of Ellis’s work is a flat low hum, the high white note of a plane overhead, the song of the void: ‘a view that confirmed you were much more alone than you thought you were, a view that inspired the flickering thoughts of suicide.’ Clay gets strange stalkey texts and emails and is followed by men in cars. Throughout this spare novella there is a darker story acted out behind the scenes. We see it in shadows and details. Only Hunter S Thompson did paranoia this well. The sense of impending doom, when there’s not a cloud in the sky.<\/p>\n

Imperial Bedrooms<\/em> is a coda for the completist. The obvious reference is Raymond Chandler, who is quoted at the beginning, but the novel reminded me more of The Sun Also Rises<\/em> in its economic portrayal of dialogue and drinks. You get the impression Ellis is closing the curtain on something: the question is where he can go from here.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

What you (may have) missed on 3:AM this week: Flash fiction: ‘Forget the Fucking Swans’ by Sam Jordison; ‘An American Flag’ by Alan McCormick & Jonny Voss Poetry: In the nineteenth of his Maintenant series SJ Fowler interviews the Greek poet Krystalli Glyniadakis; ‘Five Poems by Krystalli Glyniadakis Non-fiction: Courtesy of 3:AM Asia, Japanamerica: ‘Create […]<\/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-25758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buzzwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25758","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=25758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25758\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}