3:AM Magazine
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| URL | http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/ |
| Type of site | Consumer |
| Available language(s) | English |
| Owner | Andrew Gallix |
| Created by | Kent Wilson |
| Launched | April 2000 |
| Current status | Online |
3:AM Magazine 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 [1].
3:AM sees itself as an extension of publishing traditions forged by earlier literary magazines before the advent of webzines [2]. The magazine is notable for the array of literary criticism written by authors themselves. It features interviews with figures from all spheres of cultural activity, particularly cult and transgressive fiction. Authors interviewed more than once include Steve Almond, Andrei Codrescu, Billy Childish, Dennis Cooper, Richard Hell, Stewart Home, Michael Moorcock, Dan Rhodes and Scarlett Thomas, as well as Jon Savage. Its outlook and coverage is resolutely post-punk, particularly the emphasis on 'blank generation' authors and elements of 'Prada Meinhof' (for instance Stuart Christie).
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 [3]. The site was also called "suitably roguish for a website that aims to be an online Fitzrovia" by the Daily Telegraph [4]. Regular columnists include Sophie Parkin, Ben Myers and Charles Thomson. Its editors include or have included Noah Cicero, Travis Jeppesen, Tao Lin, Chris Killen, and Tony O'Neill.
An anthology covering its first five years of publishing, The Edgier Waters, was published in Britain by Snowbooks in June 2006, featuring Steve Almond, Bruce Benderson, Michael Bracewell, Billy Childish, Travis Jeppesen, Noah Cicero, Tim Parks, Mark Simpson and Kenji Siratori. A volume of new city-themed fiction, 3:AM London, Paris, New York followed in February 2008 (on Social Disease) and featured Chris Cleave, Niven Govinden, Laura Hird, Toby Litt, Nicholas Royle and Matt Thorne [5].
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ Guardian profile [1]
- ^ 3:AM Magazine ยป Preface
- ^ Guardian, 'Mirror's 3AM Spin-Off Faces Legal Challenge', 9 March 2004 [2]
- ^ Daily Telegraph, 'Diary', 19 January 2004 [3]
- ^ Dogmatika.com, 'Tales of the City' [4]
