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3am Magazine
''3:AM Magazine'' is a literary magazine, which was set up as 3ammagazine.com in April 2000 and is edited from Paris. Its editor-in-chief since inception has been Andrew Gallix, a lecturer at the Sorbonne. ''3:AM'' features literary criticism, nonfiction essays, original fiction, poetry, and interviews with leading writers and philosophers. Its slogan is: "Whatever it is, we're against it." History The magazine was launched in 2000. In 2004, the editors unsuccessfully tried to prevent the ''Daily Mirror'' newspaper from publishing a short-lived ''3am Magazine'' supplement based around its 3am Girls gossip column. The site was called "irreverently highbrow" by Heather Stewart in ''The Observer'', and described as aiming to be "an online Fitzrovia" by Lilian Pizzichini in ''The Daily Telegraph.'' Boyd Tonkin, in ''The Independent'', described it as keeping "faith with the old little-review tradition of ''avant-garde'' provocation and seditious literary cheek" and Inés Martin Rod ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,000 inhabitants, most populous city of France, with an estimated population of 2,165,423 residents in 2019 in an area of more than 105 km² (41 sq mi), making it the List of cities proper by population density, 30th most densely populated city in the world in 2020. Since the 17th century, Paris has been one of the world's major centres of finance, diplomacy, commerce, Fashion capital, fashion, gastronomy, and science. For its leading role in the arts and sciences, as well as its very early system of street lighting, in the 19th century it became known as "the City of Light". Like London, prior to the Second World War, it was also sometimes called Caput Mundi#Paris, the capital of the world. The City of Paris is the centre of the Île-de-France Regions of France, region, or Paris Region, with an estimated population of 12,262,544 in 2019, or about 19% of the population of France, making the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Billy Childish
Billy Childish (born Steven John Hamper, 1 December 1959) is an English painter, author, poet, photographer, film maker, singer and guitarist. Since the late 1970s, Childish has been prolific in creating music, writing and visual art. He has led and played in bands including the Pop Rivets, Thee Milkshakes, Thee Headcoats, and the Musicians of the British Empire, primarily working in the genres of garage rock, punk and surf and releasing more than 100 albums. He is a consistent advocate for amateurism and free emotional expression. Childish co-founded the Stuckism art movement with Charles Thomson in 1999, which he left in 2001. Since then a new evaluation of Childish's standing in the art world has been under way, culminating with the publication of a critical study of Childish's working practice by the artist and writer Neal Brown, with an introduction by Peter Doig, which describes Childish as "one of the most outstanding, and often misunderstood, figures on the Britis ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Hird
Laura Hird (born 1966) is a Scottish novelist and short story writer. Hird studied Contemporary Writing at Middlesex Polytechnic and is the author of two novels, ''Nail and Other Stories'' (1997) and ''Born Free'' (1999). ''Hope and Other Urban Tales'', a novella and short story collection, followed in 2006. All her novels and collections are published by Canongate Books. Hird's first novel was published as part of the Rebel Inc. imprint at Canongate, where she also contributed to two anthologies alongside Alan Warner and Irvine Welsh Irvine Welsh (born 27 September 1958) is a Scottish novelist, playwright and short story writer. His 1993 novel '' Trainspotting'' was made into a film of the same name. He has also written plays and screenplays, and directed several short fil .... Bibliography * ''Nail and Other Stories'' (1997) * ''Born Free'' (1999) * ''Hope and Other Urban Tales'' (2006) * ''Dear Laura: Letters from a Mother to her Daughter'' (2007) External links *L ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Niven Govinden
Niven Govinden (born 1973) is an English novelist. He was born in East Sussex and then educated at Goldsmiths College Goldsmiths, University of London, officially the Goldsmiths' College, is a constituent research university of the University of London in England. It was originally founded in 1891 as The Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Wo ..., University of London, where he studied film. To date he has written five novels and a number of short stories. His writing has appeared in the magazine '' Bad Idea'', and his short story ''My Cinephiliac Shame'' appeared in the 2008 ''Bad Idea Anthology''. He was appointed the Chair of Judges for the 2015 Green Carnation Prize. Novels ''We Are The New Romantics'' (2004) ''Graffiti My Soul'' (2007) ''Black Bread White Beer'' (2013) ''All the Days and Nights'' (2014) ''This Brutal House'' (2019) ''Diary of a Film'' (2021) References External linksGovinden Canongate page [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Cleave
Chris Cleave (born 1973) is a British writer and journalist. Biography Cleave was born in London on May 14, 1973, brought up in Cameroon and Buckinghamshire, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford where he studied psychology. He lives in the United Kingdom with his French wife and three children. Writing Cleave's debut novel '' Incendiary'' was published in twenty countries and has been adapted into a feature film starring Michelle Williams and Ewan McGregor. The novel won a 2006 Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. The audio book version was read by Australian actor, Susan Lyons His second novel, '' The Other Hand'', was released in August 2008 and was described as "A powerful piece of art... shocking, exciting and deeply affecting... superb" by ''The Independent''. It has been shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Book Awards in the Novel category. Cleave was inspired to write ''The Other Hand'' from his childhood in West Africa. I ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henry Baum
Henry Baum (born June 29, 1972) is an American writer, blogger and musician and is considered part of the Rebel Inc. writing movement. Career Baum is the author of five novels and several published short stories and prose. His book ''Oscar Caliber Gun'' (Later called ''The Golden Calf'') has been translated into French. He has also published work with ''Identity Theory'', ''Storyglossia'', ''Scarecrow'', ''Dogmatika'', ''Purple prose'', '' 3:AM Magazine'', and ''Les Episodes''. His book, ''The American Book Of The Dead'' was described by the widow of Philip K Dick, Tessa Dick, "If you read Lolita or A Clockwork Orange without drop-kicking the book out into the garden on a rainy day, this novel is for you.” He has published with Canongate and Cloverfield Press. Awards Baum has won three awards, the Gold IPPY Award for Visionary Fiction, Best Fiction at the DIY Book Festival and the Hollywood Book Festival Grand Prize. In 2013 he waone of seven finalistsfor Best Writer at T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tyondai Braxton
Tyondai Adaien Braxton (born October 26, 1978) is an American composer and musician. He has been writing and performing music under his own name and collaboratively under various group titles and collectives since the mid-1990s, including in the experimental rock group Battles from its formation in 2002 until his departure from the group in 2010. He studied composition at the Hartt School of the University of Hartford in West Hartford, Connecticut with Robert Carl, Ingram Marshall, and Ken Steen. In 2022 Braxton joined the faculty of the music department at Princeton University. Career overview In late 2002, Braxton co-founded Battles, in which, until 2010, he performed as guitarist, keyboardist and singer. The group received worldwide acclaim for their debut album '' Mirrored'' (2007), which, among other honors and awards, was hailed by ''Time'' and Pitchfork Media as one of the ten best records of the year. The 16-month tour for the record brought the band to such venues as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Ranaldo
Lee Mark Ranaldo (born February 3, 1956) is an American musician, singer-songwriter, guitarist, writer, visual artist and record producer, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth (guitar and vocals). In 2004, ''Rolling Stone'' ranked Ranaldo at number 33 on its "Greatest Guitarists of All Time" list. In May 2012, ''Spin'' published a staff-selected top 100 guitarist list, ranking Ranaldo and his Sonic Youth bandmate Thurston Moore together at number 1. Biography Ranaldo was born in Glen Cove, Long Island, studied art and graduated from Binghamton University. He has three sons, Cody, Sage and Frey, and is married twice, first with Amanda Linn in 1981 but later divorced, and now with experimental artist Leah Singer. Ranaldo started his career in New York in several bands, including The Flucts, and by playing guitar in ''Guitar Trio'' with Rhys Chatham before joining the electric guitar orchestra of Glenn Branca. In Branca's orchestra he played mainl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thurston Moore
Thurston Joseph Moore (born July 25, 1958) is an American musician best known as a member of Sonic Youth. He has also participated in many solo and group collaborations outside Sonic Youth, as well as running the Ecstatic Peace! record label. Moore was ranked 34th in ''Rolling Stone''s 2004 edition of the "100 Greatest Guitarists of All Time." In 2012, Moore started a new band Chelsea Light Moving. Chelsea Light Moving eponymous debut was released on March 5, 2013. Since 2015, Chelsea Light Moving has been disbanded after one studio album release. Moore and the other members of the band continue to make music under his solo project and other bands. Early years Moore was born July 25, 1958, at Doctors Hospital in Coral Gables, Florida, to George E. Moore, a professor of music, and Eleanor Nann Moore. In 1967, he and his family (including brother Frederick Eugene Moore, born 1953, and sister Susan Dorothy Moore, born 1956) moved to Bethel, Connecticut. Raised Catholic, he attende ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth was an American rock band based in New York City, formed in 1981. Founding members Thurston Moore (guitar, vocals), Kim Gordon (bass, vocals, guitar) and Lee Ranaldo (guitar, vocals) remained together for the entire history of the band, while Steve Shelley (drums) followed a series of short-term drummers in 1985, rounding out the core line-up. Jim O'Rourke (bass, keyboards, guitar) was also a member of the band from 1999 to 2005, and Mark Ibold (guitar, bass) was a member from 2006 to 2011. Sonic Youth emerged from the experimental no wave art and music scene in New York before evolving into a more conventional rock band and becoming a prominent member of the American noise rock scene. Sonic Youth have been praised for having "redefined what rock guitar could do" using a wide variety of unorthodox guitar tunings while preparing guitars with objects like drum sticks and screwdrivers to alter the instruments' timbre. The band was a pivotal influence on the al ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
HP Tinker
HP Tinker (born 24 May 1969) is a Manchester-based short story writer of comic avant garde fiction. In 2007, '' Time Out'' called him an "unsung comic genius" and he has been referred to as "the Thomas Pynchon of Chorlton-cum-Hardy". Initially championed by Martin Bax at '' Ambit'', novelist Nicholas Royle and '' 3:AM Magazines Andrew Gallix, he was considered a central member of the short-lived Offbeat generation His collection of short fiction, ''The Swank Bisexual Wine Bar of Modernity'' (2007), became an instant underground classic on its release and earned Tinker cult author status. "If HP Tinker didn't exist, you'd have to make him up... he is as influenced as much by Woody Allen, Dr. Seuss and Morrissey as he is by William Burroughs and Joe Orton. As one of the brave ones — and one of Britain's most shameless writers — HP Tinker has been peddling his own brand of surrealism for years now, in stories littered with pop cultural references where you are likely to mee ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mark Simpson (journalist)
Mark Simpson is an English journalist, writer, and broadcaster specialising in popular culture, media, and masculinity. Simpson is the originator of the term and concept metrosexual. He has been described by one critic as "the skinhead Oscar Wilde". Simpson has written for numerous publications around the world, including ''The Times'', ''The Guardian'', ''Salon'', ''Arena Homme +'', ''GQ Style'', '' Vogues Hommes International'', ''The Independent on Sunday'', ''Têtu'', the Seattle ''Stranger'', and Dutch ''Playboy''. In December 2007, ''GQ Russia'' placed him in their 'Top Ten Things That Changed Men's Lives'. The term ''metrosexual'' Mark Simpson is credited with coining the term ''metrosexual'' in a 1994 article for ''The Independent''. He also introduced the word to the US in 'Meet the Metrosexual', a much-quoted essay on Salon.com in 2002, leading to the global popularity of the term. This was also the first citation of the UK footballer David Beckham as the ultimate ex ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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