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James Salter<\/a> on Jacques Bonnet’s Phantom on the Bookshelves<\/em><\/a>. * Reading books in situ<\/a>. * 15 of the greatest lists in literature<\/a>. * A series of Beckett recordings<\/a> from 1966, supervised by Beckett & accompanied by his nephews playing music. * Alex Ross<\/a> on James Joyce<\/a> & music. * “A dandy prone to pratfalls who many a night fetches up dead drunk in the gutter.”<\/em> Banville<\/a> on Gordon Bowker<\/a>‘s Joyce. * Adam Thirlwell<\/a> on Joe Brainaird’s universal prose. * The New Inquiry<\/em><\/a> on Thirlwell’s Kapow!<\/a><\/em><\/em>. * On deceleration<\/a> & Viktor Shklovsky<\/a>‘s Theory of Prose<\/em>. * Mystic goddess of Brazil, Clarice Lispector<\/a> profiled. * Benjamin Moser<\/a> on why you should know Lispector. * If you have a fondness for the short sentence, Mar\u00c3\u00adas<\/a> is a writer to convince you of the virtues of the very long one.<\/em> * “What is \u201cquality” in writing? It has nothing to do, I think, with good sentences.”<\/em> Karl Ove Knausg\u00c3\u00a5rd<\/a> interviewed in Granta<\/em>. * “One must have one’s delusions to live.”<\/em> Woody Allen<\/a> in The Talks<\/em>. * Beyond the name & famous melancholy face, it is not easy to sketch the contours of [Walter] Benjamin<\/a>‘s work & thought.<\/em> * Masters of the borderland, Kafka & Schulz in Prague<\/a>. * No one reads Reinhard Lettau<\/a>. * Tim Parks<\/a> wonders, does money make us write better? * “The trouble with nothing, no matter an artist or writer’s aspiration to the zero degree, is that it tends to reveal a residual something.”<\/em> Brian Dillon<\/a> on Invisible<\/em> at the Hayward. * “An appreciation for blandness may help us understand how Murakami<\/a> has managed to produce an intensely interesting body of fiction around characters, & sentences, that operate in a kind of continuous monotone.”<\/em> * The banal & the bizarre, a Kubrick<\/a> design compendium. * Ben Lerner<\/a> on books which inspired Leaving the Atocha Station<\/a><\/em>. * Iain Sinclair<\/a> on the transformation of London for the Olympics, to create “a fantasy that nobody wants.”<\/em> * Always someone turns up, The Millions<\/a><\/em> on Enrique Vila-Matas’ Dublinesque<\/a><\/em>. * Tristram Shandy<\/a>, dilettante. * Iggy Pop<\/a> reads Edgar Allan Poe<\/strong>‘s ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" James Salter on Jacques Bonnet’s Phantom on the Bookshelves. * Reading books in situ. * 15 of the greatest lists in literature. * A series of Beckett recordings from 1966, supervised by Beckett & accompanied by his nephews playing music. * Alex Ross on James Joyce & music. * “A dandy prone to pratfalls who […]<\/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-49221","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buzzwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49221","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=49221"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49221\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49221"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}