{"id":2739,"date":"2008-04-13T19:53:18","date_gmt":"2008-04-13T19:53:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/the-missing-links-82\/"},"modified":"2008-04-14T08:51:08","modified_gmt":"2008-04-14T08:51:08","slug":"the-missing-links-82","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/the-missing-links-82\/","title":{"rendered":"The Missing Links"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"2410560853_d78bdd7444_m.jpg\"Will Self<\/a> meets my dad<\/a> (also: a review<\/a> of The Butt<\/em>: “Any novel allowing itself to be billed as ‘an allegory of the liberal west in the post-9\/11 era’ has agreed to shoulder a fair amount of weight. Is <\/em>The Butt up to it? Hard to say”<\/em>. There’s another review here<\/a>). * An extract from Mark E Smith<\/a>‘s forthcoming autobiography. * Will Ashon<\/a> on novelists and the surveillance society<\/a>. * Susan Tomaselli<\/strong> reviews Lee Rourke<\/a>‘s Everyday<\/em>: “Admittedly it is hardly original, yet this writer, by looking at the pavement and writing from the point-of-view of the pigeons, has crafted miniature masterpieces, made all the more captivating for his enduring fascination with repetition”<\/em>. * Against reading<\/a>. * Three new poems by 3:AM<\/strong>‘s Renaissance man Matthew Wascovich<\/a>. * The 30th anniversary of Virago Modern Classics<\/a>. * Wanna sell a manuscript you’ve never written and have no intention of writing? <\/a>* Academics vs. bloggers<\/a>: “Interestingly, the Oxford panel unanimously agreed that the Guardian Unlimited blogs, which try to navigate the narrow path between more traditional, expert journalism and everyman, opinionated blogging were singled out as a target for comments of unprecedented ‘vitriol’ and ‘abuse’. Is anyone who presents themselves as a specialist online simply liable to get shot down?” <\/em>* Why novelists love the 70s and 80s<\/a>: “Many of these new novels deal with the violence, radical political protest, economic malaise and sense of societal breakdown that defined large chunks of the 1970s and 1980s \u2014 trends which, Hensher suggests, are resurfacing in our own time. ‘The sense of historical pressure in 2008 has led many English novelists to return to pressures of a similar nature, 30 years ago…. For Callaghan read Gordon Brown; for the Red Brigades and the Rote Armee Fraktion read al-Qaida; for the violence acted out in punk read the audacious violence acted out in dancehall and hip hop.'”<\/em> * In praise of the Moleskin<\/a> notebook. * The perfect library<\/a>. * Posters from May 68<\/a>. * An interesting interview<\/a> (in French) with author-cum-model (see picture below) Fr \u00e9d \u00e9ric Beigbeder<\/a> in which he describes novelists as ghostbusters. *
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The enduring shock value of Pasolini<\/a>‘s films. * Edgar Allan Poe<\/a> inspires art project. * Badass Wombles<\/a>. * Alain Pacadis<\/a> documentary. * Joe Stretch<\/a>: “Who the fuck is Steven Hall?”<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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