{"id":27600,"date":"2010-08-18T09:29:11","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T09:29:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=27600"},"modified":"2010-08-18T09:29:11","modified_gmt":"2010-08-18T09:29:11","slug":"five-for-ben-brooks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/five-for-ben-brooks\/","title":{"rendered":"Five for: Ben Brooks"},"content":{"rendered":"
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1) What are you working on at the moment?<\/strong>
\nA novel about a man being kept alive alone in a room while the earth is decontaminated (after a poisonous bloom has filled the sky and shattered). He begins to forget things. His television turns itself on, showing only images of wildlife and scenery.<\/p>\n

2) What’s the most over-used word about your work?<\/strong>
\nStylized.<\/p>\n

3) Which piece of art best describes you?<\/strong>
\n20:50<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

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4) Which literary character do you most identify with?<\/strong>
\nMildred, the pipe character, from Socrates Adams-Florou<\/a>‘s currently unpublished novel Everything’s Fine<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

5) Which one book do you wish you had written and why?<\/strong>
\nThe God of Small Things<\/a><\/em>. She got a fucking massive advance for that as well as the Booker prize money. It’s also pretty good. <\/p>\n

Ben Brooks<\/a> is the author of Fences<\/a><\/em> and An Island of Fifty<\/a><\/em>. The Kasahara School of Nihilism<\/em> is forthcoming from Fugue State Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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