{"id":5383,"date":"2009-02-09T11:40:46","date_gmt":"2009-02-09T11:40:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=5383"},"modified":"2009-02-09T11:40:46","modified_gmt":"2009-02-09T11:40:46","slug":"3am-top-5-lee-rourke-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/3am-top-5-lee-rourke-5\/","title":{"rendered":"3:AM Top 5: Lee Rourke"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"center\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5047\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/leerourke.jpg\" alt=\"leerourke\" width=\"213\" height=\"283\" \/><\/div>\n<p>Exciting news: <i><b>3:AM<\/i><\/b>&#8216;s co-editor <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/crackling-embers-iv-art%e2%80%99s-dirty-secret-redux\/\">Lee Rourke<\/a> has signed a deal with <a href=\"http:\/\/mhpbooks.com\/\">Melville House Publishing<\/a> in New York for his novel <i>The Canal<\/i>. Home to such authors as <b>Benoit Duteurtre<\/b>, <b>Tao Lin<\/b> and <b>Stephen Dixon<\/b>, MHP are, as Lee says, <i>&#8220;mouthwateringly independent&#8221;<\/i> [you can read an interview with MHP&#8217;s <b>Dennis Loy Johnson<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/an-interview-with-dennis-loy-johnson\/\">here<\/a>]. To celebrate Lee&#8217;s news, he shares with us the last five books he recently read:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>1. <i>Camera<\/i> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/you-know-life-%e2%80%93-the-translated-novels-of-jean-philippe-toussaint\/\">Jean-Philippe Toussaint<\/a><br \/>\n2. <i>Very Little . . . Almost Nothing<\/i> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/dead-philosophers-society-an-interview-with-simon-critchley\/\">Simon Critchley<\/a><br \/>\n3. <i>The Question Concerning Technology<\/I> &#8211; <b>Martin Heidegger<\/b><br \/>\n4. <i>Unfinished Ode to Mud<\/i> &#8211; <b>Francis Ponge<\/b><br \/>\n5. <i>The Bird Room<\/I> &#8211; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/elegant-sentences-an-interview-with-chris-killen\/\">Chris Killen<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Exciting news: 3:AM&#8216;s co-editor Lee Rourke has signed a deal with Melville House Publishing in New York for his novel The Canal. Home to such authors as Benoit Duteurtre, Tao Lin and Stephen Dixon, MHP are, as Lee says, &#8220;mouthwateringly independent&#8221; [you can read an interview with MHP&#8217;s Dennis Loy Johnson here]. To celebrate Lee&#8217;s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":119,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[77,457],"class_list":["post-5383","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buzzwords","tag-lee-rourke","tag-melville-house"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383","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=5383"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5383\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5383"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5383"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5383"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}