{"id":38939,"date":"2011-07-18T08:30:42","date_gmt":"2011-07-18T08:30:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=38939"},"modified":"2011-07-18T08:30:42","modified_gmt":"2011-07-18T08:30:42","slug":"under-the-paving-stones-the-beach-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/under-the-paving-stones-the-beach-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Under the paving stones, the beach (2)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Andrew Gallix:<\/strong> I’ve just finished reading Shane Weller<\/strong>‘s Modernism and Nihilism<\/em><\/a> (Palgrave Macmillan<\/a>) \u2014 highly recommended. I’ll be doing a lot of translation and research work over the summer, but apart from that I really look forward to reading Gavin James Bower<\/a>‘s second novel, Made in Britain<\/a><\/em><\/a> (Quartet Books<\/a>), Robert Coover<\/a>‘s Pricksongs & Descants<\/em><\/a> (in the new Penguin Modern Classics edition), Owen Hatherley<\/a>‘s Uncommon<\/em><\/a>, as well as Enrique Vila-Matas<\/a>‘s Montano’s Malady<\/em><\/a> (New Directions<\/a>), which I’ve been meaning to read for several years.<\/p>\n

Colin Herd:<\/strong> Never mind summer, for the rest of my life I think I’ll be reading the recently published and utterly breathtaking collected poems of Tim Dlugos<\/strong>, A Fast Life<\/a><\/em> (Nightboat Books<\/a>). Other poetry titles I’m excited to read are Evie Shockley<\/strong>‘s The New Black<\/a><\/em> (Wesleyan University Press<\/a>), Astrid Lorange<\/strong>‘s Eating and Speaking<\/a><\/em> (Tea Party Republicans Press<\/a>), Jeremy Reed<\/a>‘s Bona Vada<\/a><\/em> (Shearsman<\/a>) and Stephen Ratcliffe<\/strong>‘s Conversation<\/em> (Bootstrap Press<\/a>). In fiction, I’m about to start Ben Brooks<\/a>‘ Grow Up<\/a><\/em> and after that Doug Nufer<\/strong>‘s By Kelman Out of Pessoa<\/em>. Finally, I want to read everything I can by Oulipian Herve Le Tellier<\/strong>, and luckily the Other Press<\/a> brought out Enough About Love<\/a><\/em> in February and Dalkey Archive<\/a> have A Thousand Pearls<\/a><\/em> and The Sextine Chapel<\/a><\/em> forthcoming this summer. <\/p>\n

Mira Mattar:<\/strong> Late to the party as usual I will be finally finishing Swann’s Way<\/em><\/a>, and plan to spread the next volumes over future holidays. I can’t recommend Mary Midgley<\/strong>‘s The Myths We Live By<\/a><\/em> highly enough – a completely refreshing take down of the omnicompetence of science. Having recently fallen hard for Janet Frame<\/strong> I’ve had to ration her remaining books and next month I get to read The Carpathians<\/em>, about which I am very excited. I will probably also do my annual re-read of Jane Bowles<\/strong>‘ Two Serious Ladies<\/a><\/em> and\/or Plain Pleasures<\/em> and If I have the stamina I’ll also read Genet<\/strong>‘s Prisoner of Love<\/a><\/em>. Plus I’ll continue with Mute<\/em>‘s wonderful anthology, Proud to be Flesh<\/a><\/em> (though this is more of a dip-into read). <\/p>\n

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Kerry Ryan:<\/strong> I’ll be reading David Lodge<\/strong>‘s novel about the life of H.G. Wells, A Man of Parts<\/a><\/em>. The reviews have been mixed but I want to see for myself what Lodge has made of one of my favourite authors. Plus, I’m looking forward to reading Sophie Mayer<\/strong>‘s new poetry collection, The Private Parts of Girls<\/a><\/em>.<\/p>\n

Susan Tomaselli:<\/strong> Variations on a theme, as I’m rereading Virginia Woolf<\/strong>‘s Mrs Dalloway<\/a><\/em>, To the Lighthouse<\/a><\/em> and The Waves<\/a><\/em>, reading Hesperus<\/a>‘ re-issue of Richard Kennedy<\/strong>‘s A Boy at the Hogarth Press<\/a><\/em> and Alexandra Harris<\/strong>‘ Romantic Moderns: Artists & the Imagination from Virginia Woolf to John Piper<\/a><\/em>. I’ve also got my eye on Gordon Bowker<\/strong>‘s new biography of Joyce<\/a>, but doubt that I’ll get through that in one sitting, so I’ll be dipping into Conor Fennell<\/strong>‘s A Little Circle of Kindred Minds: Joyce in Paris<\/em><\/a>. After that, it’ll be David Rose<\/a>‘s Vault: An Anti-Novel<\/a><\/em>, Lars Iyer<\/strong>‘s Spurious<\/em><\/a>, Verso<\/strong>‘s Restless Cities<\/a><\/em>, Peter Ackroyd<\/strong>‘s London Under<\/a><\/em> and, before I go anywhere near Ghost Milk<\/em><\/a>, I ought to finish Iain Sinclair<\/a>‘s Hackney: That Rose-Red Empire<\/em><\/a>. <\/p>\n

Karl Whitney:<\/strong> This summer I’ll be reading cyclist David Millar<\/strong>‘s confessional memoir (about how he doped and why) Racing Through the Dark: The Fall and Rise of David Millar<\/a><\/em> (Orion<\/a>), a refreshingly leftist perspective on Ireland’s financial collapse from Conor McCabe<\/strong>, Sins of the Father<\/a><\/em> (The History Press Ireland<\/a>), McKenzie Wark<\/strong>‘s book on the Situationist International, The Beach Beneath the Street<\/a><\/em> (Verso<\/a>) and two new titles from the excellent Wakefield Press<\/a>: Paul Scheerbart<\/strong>‘s The Perpetual Motion Machine: The Story of an Invention<\/a><\/em> and Benjamin P \u00e9ret<\/strong>‘s The Leg of Lamb: Its Life and Works<\/a><\/em>. I also got a copy of Joe Brainard<\/strong>‘s I Remember<\/a><\/em> (Granary Books<\/a>), which I’ll be dipping into from time to time. In addition, two recent books in French: Connaissez-vous Paris?<\/em> (Gallimard<\/a>), selected columns, in question and answer format, by Raymond Queneau<\/strong> for the newspaper l’Intransigeant<\/em>, originally published between 1936 and 1938, and, from the author of The Invention of Paris<\/a><\/em>, Eric Hazan<\/a>‘s Paris sous tension<\/em> (La Fabrique<\/a>).<\/p>\n

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Andrew Gallix: I’ve just finished reading Shane Weller‘s Modernism and Nihilism (Palgrave Macmillan) \u2014 highly recommended. I’ll be doing a lot of translation and research work over the summer, but apart from that I really look forward to reading Gavin James Bower‘s second novel, Made in Britain (Quartet Books), Robert Coover‘s Pricksongs & Descants (in […]<\/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-38939","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buzzwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38939","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=38939"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38939\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38939"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38939"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38939"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}