{"id":504,"date":"2007-01-29T16:38:47","date_gmt":"2007-01-29T16:38:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/the-missing-links-44\/"},"modified":"2007-01-30T15:30:16","modified_gmt":"2007-01-30T15:30:16","slug":"the-missing-links-44","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/the-missing-links-44\/","title":{"rendered":"The Missing Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" vspace=\"5\" hspace=\"5\" border=\"solid black 1px\" align=\"left\" alt=\"stockings\" id=\"image503\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/01\/373119795_857d7fc49c_m.jpg\" \/>The publication of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Tzvetan_Todorov\">Tzvetan Todorov<\/a>&#8216;s <em>La Litt \u00e9rature en p \u00e9ril<\/em> has sparked off a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telerama.fr\/livres\/M0701221237075.html\">debate<\/a> on the relevance of contemporary French fiction. Todorov argues that French novels, today, tend to be either solipsistic or nihilistic, when they&#8217;re not simply (sic.) disappearing up their <em>ars rhetorica<\/em>. He is usually pitted against the thirtysomething novelists associated with <a href=\"http:\/\/inculte.over-blog.com\/album-297385.html\"><em>Inculte<\/em><\/a>, a literary journal which has just published <a href=\"http:\/\/inculte.over-blog.com\/article-5379634.html\"><em>Devenirs du roman<\/em><\/a><em>,<\/em> an anthology of essays and interviews about the state of the novel. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.screenhead.com\/reviews\/the-unfilmables-a-list-of-the-hardest-novels-to-film\/\">Unfilmable novels<\/a>. * Sad man in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nme.com\/news\/nme-awards\/25995\">Hammersmith Palais<\/a>. * <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.litro.co.uk\/\">Litro<\/a><\/em> editor reviews the latest <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonist.com\/archives\/2007\/01\/in_the_first_of.php\">Tales of the Decongested<\/a> event and interviews the organisers: <em>&#8220;We came up with the idea after a night out at Wimbledon dogs&#8221;<\/em> * An <a href=\"http:\/\/www.froggydelight.com\/article-3517-1-Gulcher.html\">interview<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gulcher75.com\/\">G\u00c3\u00bclcher<\/a> who are fronted by former <em>3:AM<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/parisianism\/parisianism.html\">collaborator<\/a> Laurence <a href=\"http:\/\/www.myspace.com\/laurence_r\">R \u00e9mila<\/a>. They talk about their extraordinary first album, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www4.fnac.com\/Shelf\/Article.aspx?PRID=1884822&#038;OrderInSession=1&#038;Mn=2&#038;SID=2693e05f-3df2-913e-1756-4734c588eac7&#038;TTL=111120061610&#038;Origin=FnacAff&#038;Ra=-28&#038;To=0&#038;Nu=2&#038;UID=03d20b950-e515-b9e7-992f-bf99b10227db&#038;Fr=0\">After Nature<\/a><\/em>, which is destined to become a French rock classic. * Our friends at <a href=\"http:\/\/dogmatika.com\/dm\/index.php\"><em>Dogmatika<\/em><\/a> devoted <a href=\"http:\/\/dogmatika.com\/dm\/more.php?id=2523_0_1_0_C\">last week<\/a> to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brautigan.net\/\">Richard Brautigan<\/a>. Check out (<em>inter alia<\/em>) <a href=\"http:\/\/www.benmyers.com\/\">Ben Myers<\/a>&#8216; <a href=\"http:\/\/dogmatika.com\/dm\/more.php?id=2529_0_1_0_C\">piece<\/a>: <em>&#8220;What happened next, I&#8217;ve never told anyone about. I gave the man in the shop three metal coins and I took TROUT FISHING IN AMERICA by RICHARD BRAUTIGAN home and I pan-fried him with a little farm-house butter and couple of twists of lemon. Salt and pepper&#8221;<\/em>. * Californicator <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hundredproofbordello.com\/\">Kimberley Nichols<\/a> is about to make her return in <em>3:AM<\/em>. * The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dazeddigital.com\/incoming\/item.aspx?a=266\">Hunter S Thompson<\/a> exhibition in LA. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.viceland.com\/int\/v13n12\/htdocs\/poppy.php?country=uk\">Poppy &#038; The Jezebels<\/a> interviewed. * The closure of <a href=\"http:\/\/music.guardian.co.uk\/electronic\/story\/0,,1982835,00.html\">Trash<\/a> (more <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/music\/2006\/12\/bin_there_done_that_why_trash.html\">here<\/a>). * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gawker.com\/news\/steve-almond\/steve-almonds-daddy-blog-watch-your-back-neal-pollack-225358.php\">On<\/a> Steve<strong> <\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/litarchives\/2004\/aug\/interview_steve_almond.html\">Almond<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.babble.com\/CS\/blogs\/babydaddy\/default.aspx\">Baby Daddy<\/a> blog. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/litarchives\/2002_may\/interview_neal_pollack.html\">Neal Pollack<\/a>, spokesman for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.radaronline.com\/features\/2007\/01\/dad_to_the_bone.php\">punk rock parenting<\/a> movement. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akashicbooks.com\/userlands.htm\"><em>Userlands: New Fiction From the Blogging Underground<\/em><\/a> is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.villagevoice.com\/books\/0703,nazaryan,75535,10.html\">reviewed<\/a> in the <em>Village Voice<\/em>. * The <em>International Herald Tribune<\/em> talk to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.akashicbooks.com\/\">Akashic Book<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.iht.com\/articles\/2007\/01\/12\/features\/blume.php\">Johnny Temple<\/a>. * When Britain and France nearly got <a href=\"http:\/\/news.bbc.co.uk\/1\/hi\/uk\/6261885.stm\">hitched<\/a>. * The forthcoming film version of <a href=\"http:\/\/buzz.litteraire.free.fr\/dotclear\/index.php?2007\/01\/19\/636-dujardin-se-glisse-dans-la-peau-d-octave-le-publicitaire-nevrose-de-99-francs-frederic-beigbeder\">Fr \u00e9d \u00e9ric Beigbeder<\/a>&#8216;s <em>99 francs<\/em>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/denniscooper-theweaklings.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/neglected-and-neglectful-howard-devoto.html\">Howard Devoto<\/a>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/savagemanners.wordpress.com\/\">Savage Manners<\/a>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/comment\/story\/0,,1995965,00.html\">90 seconds to sell your book<\/a> (check it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.meettheauthor.com\/\">out<\/a>). * An <a href=\"http:\/\/futuretensebooks.com\/futuret\/interviews\/ellen.html\">interview<\/a> with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.elizabethellen.net\/\">Elizabeth Ellen<\/a>. * A history of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.punk77.co.uk\/groups\/cash_pussies.htm\">Cash Pussies<\/a>. * The <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2007\/01\/the_wrong_kind_of_reading_less.html\">boy&#8217;s own<\/a> controversy. * <strong>Rod Liddle<\/strong> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0,,2101-2539779,00.html\">impotence of contemporary fiction<\/a>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.serpentstail.com\/content_item?id=136\">Peter Wild<\/a> on the Serpent&#8217;s Tail website. * <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/extracts\/story\/0,,1986904,00.html\">Kenneth Tynan<\/a>&#8216;s new collection. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.michaelhoppengallery.com\/artists\/pigalle\/index.htm#\">Anne Pigalle<\/a>&#8216;s striking polaroids. * <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/news\/articles\/0,,1988833,00.html\">Dante<\/a> not that ugly shock horror! * <a href=\"http:\/\/books.guardian.co.uk\/review\/story\/0,,1999364,00.html\">Hanif Kureishi<\/a> on <strong>Junichiro Tanizaki<\/strong>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.guardian.co.uk\/books\/2007\/01\/when_ginsbergs_circus_rolled_i.html\">Iain Sinclair<\/a>&#8216;s <strong>Ginsberg<\/strong> film. * <strong>Sam Jordison<\/strong> delights in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.blacksparrowbooks.com\/titles\/chestera.htm\">Alfred Chester<\/a>&#8216;s combination of <em>&#8220;genius, madness, tragedy and red hairpieces&#8221;<\/em>. * The <a href=\"http:\/\/www.punk77.co.uk\/groups\/nuffin.htm\">diary of a suburban punk rocker<\/a>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.moleskinerie.com\/\">Moleskinerie<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The publication of Tzvetan Todorov&#8216;s La Litt \u00e9rature en p \u00e9ril has sparked off a debate on the relevance of contemporary French fiction. 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