{"id":76392,"date":"2015-12-06T10:59:09","date_gmt":"2015-12-06T10:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/?p=76392"},"modified":"2015-12-06T16:08:37","modified_gmt":"2015-12-06T16:08:37","slug":"the-missing-links-314","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/the-missing-links-314\/","title":{"rendered":"The Missing Links"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-76988\" src=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/22911603083_8bb74f7281_z.jpg\" alt=\"missinglinks\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/22911603083_8bb74f7281_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/22911603083_8bb74f7281_z-300x300.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Brian Dillon<\/strong> and <strong>Esther Leslie<\/strong> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.londonreviewbookshop.co.uk\/events\/past\/2015\/9\/walter-benjamin\">Walter Benjamin<\/a> (podcast). * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thenation.com\/article\/nothing-remains-unchanged-but-the-clouds\/\">Walter Benjamin<\/a>, our contemporary. * <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/misterenderby\/claire-louise-bennett\">Claire-Louise Bennett<\/a> in conversation with <strong>Brian Dillon<\/strong>. * My review of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/nov\/18\/pond-claire-louise-bennett-review?CMP=share_btn_tw\">Claire-Louise Bennett<\/a>&#8216;s wonderful <strong><em>Pond<\/em><\/strong> for the <strong><em>Guardian<\/em><\/strong>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theskinny.co.uk\/books\/features\/claire-louise-bennett-pond-fitzcarraldo-stinging-fly\">Claire-Louise Bennett<\/a> interviewed in <em>The Skinny<\/em>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/channel.louisiana.dk\/video\/lydia-davis-reading-goodbye-louise\">Lydia Davis<\/a> reads from a work-in-progress, a <strong>fake autobiography<\/strong> (video). * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/podcast\/fiction\/lydia-davis-reads-robert-gorham-davis\">Lydia Davis<\/a> on one of her father&#8217;s stories. * &#8220;Fifty-Seven&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2015\/11\/30\/fifty-seven\">Rachel Kushner<\/a>. (More <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/fiction-this-week-rachel-kushner-2015-11-30\">here<\/a>.) * <a href=\"http:\/\/frieze.com\/issue\/article\/falling-idols\/\">Marina Warner on the history of the destruction of art<\/a>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/nov\/28\/condition-ageing-art-paul-taylor-review?CMP=twt_b-gdnreview\">The ageing of art<\/a>. * An extract from an interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/dec\/05\/gordon-lish-books-interview-editing-raymond-carver\">Gordon Lish<\/a>: <em>&#8220;I saw in Carver&#8217;s pieces something I could fuck around with. There was a prospect there, certainly. The germ of the thing, in Ray&#8217;s stuff, was revealed in the catalogue of his experience. It had that promise in it, something I could fool with and make something new-seeming&#8221;<\/em>. * On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v37\/n23\/mary-kay-wilmers\/what-a-mother\">Marianne Moore<\/a>. * Happy birthday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mixcloud.com\/sohoradio\/gary-crowleys-punk-and-new-wave-show-27102015\/\">Viv Albertine<\/a>! (podcast). * <a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/punk_can_take_it_julien_temple_shoots_the_u.k._subs_1979\">Julien Temple<\/a>&#8216;s <em>Punk Can Take It<\/em> (video). * An excellent radio interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/mjstarling.tumblr.com\/post\/133742319717\/richard-cabut-is-my-guest-on-episode-15-of-the\">Richard Cabut<\/a>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/fivebooks.com\/interview\/john-berger\/\">Tom Overton on John Berger<\/a>. * <strong>Tom Overton<\/strong> on<a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/09\/29\/tom-overton\/nationality-doubtful\/\"> Josef Koudelka<\/a>. * A brilliant, in-depth interview with <a href=\"http:\/\/numerocinqmagazine.com\/2015\/12\/01\/the-mind-of-the-modern-an-interview-with-gabriel-josipovici-victoria-best\/\">Gabriel Josipovici<\/a> by <strong>Victoria Best<\/strong>. * \u00a0 The first issue of <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.cardiff.ac.uk\/barthes\/volumes\/volume-articles\/?q=volume-1\"><em>Barthes Studies<\/em><\/a>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/booksblog\/2015\/nov\/12\/roland-barthes-happy-100th-birthday-centenary-birth?CMP=share_btn_tw\">Roland Barthes<\/a> at 100. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/books\/what-to-read\/roland-barthes-centenary-death-of-the-author\/\"><em>The Telegraph<\/em> on Barthes<\/a>. * <strong>Michael Wood, Penny Sparke, Nick James, Andrew Hussey, and yours truly<\/strong> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b06pxnjq\">Roland Barthes<\/a> (<em>The Essay<\/em>, <strong>BBC Radio 3<\/strong>). * The second issue of <em><strong>The Scofield<\/strong><\/em> is devoted to &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/s55615.gridserver.com\/The_Scofield_Issue_1.2_Kay_Boyle_Love.pdf\">Kay Boyle &amp; Love<\/a>&#8220;. * <a href=\"http:\/\/littleatoms.com\/podcast\/podcast-max-porter\">Max Porter<\/a> on <strong>Little Atoms<\/strong> (Resonance FM). * Writing grief: an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ica.org.uk\/blog\/writing-grief-interview-max-porter\">Max Porter<\/a>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/nov\/21\/kenneth-goldsmith-interview-i-wanted-to-take-walter-benjamin-off-pedestal-on-to-coffee-table?CMP=share_btn_tw\">Kenneth Goldsmith<\/a> interviewed: <em>&#8220;I tell truths that people find disturbing, but I never do it to disturb people purposely&#8221;<\/em>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/thequietus.com\/articles\/19226-paris-terror-attack-friday-13\">Jeremy Allen<\/a> reports back from the <strong>Stade de France<\/strong>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/observations\/2015\/11\/after-paris-attacks-life-goes-sleepless-grieving-and-edgy-city\">Andrew Hussey<\/a> on the aftermath of the terrorist attacks in <strong>Paris<\/strong>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/music\/musicblog\/2015\/nov\/16\/le-bataclan-place-gigs-into-events-paris-attacks?CMP=share_btn_tw\"><em>The Guardian<\/em><\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/11\/16\/jeremy-bernstein\/a-brief-history-of-the-bataclan\/\"><em>LRB<\/em><\/a> on <strong>Le Bataclan<\/strong>. * <strong>Jeremy Harding<\/strong> on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/blog\/2015\/11\/19\/jeremy-harding\/the-new-normal\/\">New Normal<\/a>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/timescolumns.typepad.com\/stothard\/2015\/11\/paris-writers-response.html\">Writers respond to the Paris attacks<\/a>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/electricliterature.com\/gaps-and-surfaces-an-interview-with-joanna-walsh\/\">Joanna Walsh<\/a> on gaps and surfaces. * <a href=\"http:\/\/electricliterature.com\/the-cricket-sings-with-its-knees-on-writing-fiction\/#.Vk4rfS3alQU.twitter\">Noy Holland<\/a> on writing fiction: <em>&#8220;Listen for the voice, I say, that escapes, and comes around behind you&#8221;<\/em>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.publishersweekly.com\/pw\/by-topic\/industry-news\/tip-sheet\/article\/67943-on-gender-in-literature.html\">Female writers and the anxiety of influence<\/a>. * A beginner&#8217;s guide to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/film\/2015\/dec\/02\/jean-luc-godard-a-beginners-guide?CMP=share_btn_tw\">Jean-Luc Godard<\/a>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/gonzai.com\/richard-hell-talkin-about-his-blank-ge-ge-ge-neration\/\">Richard Hell<\/a>. * <strong>Christopher Tayler<\/strong> reviews <a href=\"http:\/\/www.lrb.co.uk\/v37\/n10\/christopher-tayler\/is-there-hope-for-u\">Tom McCarthy<\/a>&#8216;s <em>Satin Island<\/em> in the <em>LRB<\/em>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/lifeandstyle\/2015\/dec\/05\/charlie-brown-charles-schultz-peanuts-cartoon-movie-steve-martino?CMP=share_btn_tw\">Charlie Brown and Peanuts<\/a>: <em>&#8220;Certainly, Ibsen and Strindberg made a lot of sense to me as an adult because I was raised on<\/em> Peanuts. <em>Even now, if I look at Munch&#8217;s<\/em> The Scream <em>I can imagine what Charlie Brown would have looked like had he ever grown up \u2013 bald, wizened and existentially demented through worry. Just as well he never did grow up.&#8221; <\/em> * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/nov\/28\/peanuts-movie-charles-schulz-charlie-brown-cartoon?CMP=twt_a-culture_b-gdnculture\">Charles Schulz and loserdom<\/a>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/nov\/27\/posthumous-cantos-ezra-pound-massimo-bacigalupo-review?CMP=share_btn_tw\">Ezra Pound<\/a>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/programmes\/b06fpcgd\">Will Self<\/a> on why looks matter (audio), <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/cities\/2015\/nov\/19\/lectures-laughs-and-liberation-will-self-leads-walking-tour-of-bristol?CMP=share_btn_tw\">Bristol<\/a>, the infamous <a href=\"http:\/\/will-self.com\/2015\/11\/29\/4472\/\">Cereal Killer<\/a> cafe, and the <a href=\"http:\/\/will-self.com\/2015\/12\/02\/on-location-trafford-centre\/\">Trafford Centre.<\/a> * <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HnpQdlntkfE\">Will Self and Hanif Kureishi<\/a> on the suburban consciousness. * <a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/all_i_want_is_snatch_the_obscure_but_amazing_female_punk_duo_that_youve_pro\">Snatch<\/a>. * <strong>Bob Stanley<\/strong> on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/nov\/20\/1966-jon-savage-music-review?CMP=share_btn_tw\">Jon Savage<\/a>&#8216;s <em>1966<\/em>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/wordpodcast.co.uk\/2015\/11\/20\/word-podcast-247-it-wasnt-like-austin-powers-celebrating-1966-with-jon-savage\/\">Jon Savage<\/a> in conversation with David Hepworth (podcast). * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/books\/page-turner\/vanishing-point?mbid=social_twitter\">Karl Ove Knausgaard<\/a>: <em>&#8220;All of a sudden, I understood that the people coming across the sea were not people in the plural, but in the singular&#8221;<\/em>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2015\/11\/08\/books\/review\/michel-houellebecqs-submission.html?_r=0\">Knausgaard reviews Houellebecq<\/a>&#8216;s <em>Submission<\/em>. * Remembering <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/50283533\">Chris Marker<\/a>. * A new <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/nov\/19\/proust-the-search-benjamin-taylor-review\">Proust<\/a> biography. * <a href=\"http:\/\/dangerousminds.net\/comments\/polaroids_of_desire_architect_carlo_mollinos_secret_stash_of_erotica\">Carlo Mollino<\/a>&#8216;s Polaroids. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/dec\/06\/based-on-a-true-story--geoff-dyer-fine-line-between-fact-and-fiction-nonfiction\">Geoff Dyer and others on the fine line between fact and fiction<\/a>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/nov\/27\/confessional-writing-memoirs-biography-writers-feel-need-reveal-all?CMP=share_btn_tw\">Writers who reveal all<\/a>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/nov\/21\/rise-of-the-present-tense-in-fiction-hilary-mantel?CMP=share_btn_tw\">Richard Lea on the rise of the present tense in fiction<\/a>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/biblioklept.org\/2015\/11\/30\/the-sentence-is-itself-an-odyssey-william-h-gass-analyzes-a-sentence-from-joyces-ulysses\/\">The odyssey of the sentence<\/a>. * Why you should read <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/nov\/03\/why-you-should-read-william-h-gass-eyes-novellas-and-stories?CMP=share_btn_tw\">William H. Gass<\/a>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nybooks.com\/daily\/2015\/12\/01\/novel-kind-of-conformity\/\">Tim Parks<\/a> on a novel kind of conformity. * On <a href=\"http:\/\/www.city-journal.org\/2015\/bc1127ip.html\">Joan Didion<\/a>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/nov\/27\/london-smog-christine-corton-review?CMP=share_btn_tw\">The history of the pea-souper<\/a>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/tankmagazine.com\/issue-65\/features\/tod-wodicka-nice\">Tod Wodicka on Nice<\/a>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/gonzai.com\/revisionnisme-punk-au-mont-de-marsan\/\">Punk revisionism at Mont-de-Marsan<\/a>. * <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ideapod.com\/idea\/People-who-are-bilingual-are-smarter-and-more-creative-according-to-science\/56543a12b4da2628237ce8e0\">On bilingual people<\/a>. * A 2003 interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=FkxUY0kxH80\">David Foster Wallace<\/a> (video). * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/books\/2015\/nov\/24\/lars-iyer-real-philosophers-feel-burning-sense-of-vocation\">Lars Iyer<\/a> on his <em>Wittgenstein Jnr<\/em>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/pitchfork.com\/news\/62237-new-documentary-chronicles-the-story-of-the-pogues-shane-macgowan-getting-new-teeth\/\">Shane MacGowan<\/a>&#8216;s new set of gnashers. * &#8220;Five Parties&#8221; by <a href=\"http:\/\/granta.com\/five-parties\/\">Ned Beauman<\/a>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newstatesman.com\/culture\/books\/2015\/11\/t-s-eliot-and-sexual-wasteland\">TS Eliot and the sexual wasteland<\/a>. * <a href=\"http:\/\/www.frieze.com\/issue\/article\/picture-piece-dantes-inferno\/\">Zadie Smith<\/a> on <strong>Dante<\/strong>&#8216;s <em>Inferno<\/em> \u2014 a perfect rendition of nothing. * Rediscovering <a href=\"http:\/\/lithub.com\/bette-howland-the-tale-of-a-forgotten-genius\/\">Bette Howland<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Brian Dillon and Esther Leslie on Walter Benjamin (podcast). * Walter Benjamin, our contemporary. * Claire-Louise Bennett in conversation with Brian Dillon. * My review of Claire-Louise Bennett&#8216;s wonderful Pond for the Guardian. * Claire-Louise Bennett interviewed in The Skinny. * Lydia Davis reads from a work-in-progress, a fake autobiography (video). * Lydia Davis on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"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-76392","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-buzzwords"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76392","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=76392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=76392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=76392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.3ammagazine.com\/3am\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=76392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}