Politica
THE NEW COLD WAR: MAKING CRIME PAY
THE HOME OF THE FREE? More like the land of the Quickly Becoming Incarcerated. The Wall Street Journal reports that prisons are big business. Now a large number are run by private corporations trying to make an easy buck... which means cutting operating costs any way they can. Reform - Gone. Living conditions - Gone. Crowded cell blocks - worse than ever. It's no wonder many nonviolent offenders are released back into society - not only broke - but with chips on their shoulders... "Convicts have become commodities". By Cliff Montgomery.
Literature and Art in Cyberspace
MARKING AMERIKA AND THE WORLD
-> New 12/03/2000
 Kristine Feeks takes us on a guided tour of Mark amerika's Alt-X Online Network where "the digerati meet the literati": the future of literature "doesn't only reside within a dust jacket." |
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Fiction
MAKING SCENES -> New 12/03/2000
 "We talk about books we’ve read. I read D.H. Lawrence and Elizabeth McNeil because I notice my teacher is most impressed with my sexual insight. He reads Cervantes and Sir Walter Scott, so I think he thinks I’m impressed with size." Award-winning writer Adrienne Eisen, described by Mark Amerika as "the hypertext world's Kathy Acker" brings you three extracts from her first print novel Making Scenes.
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Fiction
SHELLY THE HOLE -> New 11/29/2000
"I see them all the time. If I were to bite he’d have me in the back seat of his shitty little car sweating to the oldies. He’s the kind of guy who hears a sigh and thinks it’s an orgasm, who will spend no more than 10 minutes on top in total self-gratification. Guys are funny. They think that if they enjoyed it, you must have too. I’m used to selfish lovers, I’ve had plenty in my day." Check out Jim Martin's latest story, "Shelly The Hole".
What the Butler Never Saw
ENTERTAINING MR. MADER
-> New 11/26/2000
 Andrew Gallix brings you the Joe Orton archives, more international news, a bibliography, web links and an interview with Travis Mader, author of "Cut".
Musik sans Frontieres
SOUL PROVIDERS - An Interview with the Holmes Brothers
-> New 11/20/2000
"During the 1980s, before there was a Manny's Car Wash or a Terra Blues or a B.B. King's Bar & Grill on 42nd Street, Dan Lynch's was about the only bona fide blues experience to be had in Manhattan. Located on Second Avenue near the corner of 14th Street, it was a lowdown, smoky watering hole featuring cheap drinks and live sounds nightly until two. For author Adam Gussow it was 'a warm, ragged, dependable base of operations'; he used to blow his harp there with uptown mystic-philosopher-guitarist, Mister Satan. Among the other 'blacks and whites, Brooklynites and Parisians, stockbrokers and postal workers, guitarists and harpists and sax players and drummers' . . ." Vincent Abbate interviews the Holmes Brothers.
Fiction
DIARY OF A MADMAN
-> New 11/18/2000
"Perfect I've got the carpet and I'm on the bus trying to find a bottomless pit. I don't want anyone to know that it was me who took their carpet so I cut some holes in it for my arms and eyes and wrapped it around myself so no one could recognize me. Everyone else on the bus has a look on their face like they've never seen a carpet write in a diary before." read Andrew Payne's "Diary of a Mad Man".
Entertainment
NOTES FROM THE HOLLYWOOD UNDERGROUND
"Porn stars, whores, and she-males have congregated outside the cyclone fence and they’re waging bets like this was the WWF. It’s a regular hootenanny. Three black chicks are rapping like modern-day Supremes. Vampires with sunglasses have stepped out of the nearby bars and sniff the air like dogs. The smell of perfume and cologne mixes with the smell of garbage. I can see vials and bills exchanging hands." Hollywood's Dostoyevsky? By Carter McCormack.
Fiction
Adult Entertainment -> New 11/20/2000
"Surveying the rest of the bar, the usual sad sight. Erections cleverly disguised as men. Covered in a filth you can't just wash off. It’s encrusted upon their skin from years of being dishonest and untrue. However these two men by the entrance don't seem to emanate that sort of debauchery. I couldn't remember what the man on the left looked like. I never saw him again after that night. But the man on the right suddenly appeared as if in the center of a bull's eye. He was clean, in a Hollywood, fashionably sloppy way. Although his Indian, black hair barely grazed his shoulders, I immediately noticed the stressed receding hairline. And the very skin on the top of his head suddenly became endearing to me. You dear, sweet man." Read Triana Gamaza's "Adult Entertainment."
3AM Music
The Purple Hearts -> New 11/15/2000
 In 1979, a Mod / Ska revival swept Britain. James Cooper hops on his scooter with The Purple Hearts.
Fiction
CUT -> New 11/20/2000
"When my stuff started getting published and his didn't, he got real weird on me. I mean, he started calling me Joe—like Joe Orton? You know the story, Joe Orton the famous English playwright of the early sixties, the stunning overnight success bludgeoned to death by his lover Kenneth Halliwell in the wee hours of the night . . . that's the one. JD had even bought The Orton Diaries and that movie they made out of it, the one with Gary Oldman. He played that tape all the time, rewinding and fastforwarding. . . . Then he started leaving notes to me from "Ken," started talking with a British accent. When he left the hammer on my dresser with a big pink bow around it, I took that as my cue.. I got out fast. See, Halliwell killed Joe Orton with a hammer—nine blows to the head, brains everywhere." Read "Cut", a brilliant short story by Travis Mader.
The author is interviewed in December's "What the Butler Saw" column.
3AM Book Reviews
Testosterone -> New 11/15/2000
 "James Robert Baker's narrative unfolds with enough twists and turns, flashbacks, chance encounters, violence, anger, and sex, to make your head spin": Greg Wharton on Testosterone.
Literature Interview
ATTACK! BOOKS -> New 11/18/2000
 "Attack! is an unequal-opportunities employer, we're out to finally and irrevocably destroy the Oxbridge upper-middle class death grip on "literature". Our bible is The Intellectuals and the Masses. We have swallowed wholesale the knowledge that the reason novels got so tedious, self-referential and dull in the early 20th Century was as a reaction against mass-literacy. They didn't want the oiks to read books. God no! Well fuck you, you snobs! The oiks are biting back." Andrew Gallix interviews Steven Wells leader of the latest literary insurrection
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Literature
INTERVIEW: AN AMERIKAN IN PARIS
 Roll over Gutenberg! Mark Amerika, cyberpope, shaman and “filterer of white noise”, knows there is “another way”: he is already looking back to “those times when books used to gather dust in warehouses.” Guillaume Destot and Andrew Gallix met him on a sunny day in Paris. It’s more of a manifesto than an interview—and it’s a 3AM world exclusive.
Literary Interview
Preethi Woman -> New 11/24/2000  She gave up a high-flying job to publish her first novel. She created her own publishing house and promoted her work under the guise of fictitious PR woman Pru Menon. A few months after hitting the bookshops, Gypsy Masala is already on its third print run! Andrew Gallix interviews Indian-born, London-based novelist Preethi Nair about her publishing fairy tale.
Literature
She Has A Dream: A Publishing Fairy Tale -> New 11/26/2000 Preethi Nair recounts the extraordinary lengths to which she went to publish and promote her first novel Gypsy Masala: A Story of Dreams
Satire
EMERICA: A Nation of Self-Reliance Ever wonder what it would be like if David Koresh and his minions in
Waco, Texas were obsessed with Ralph Waldo Emerson and guns rather than
the Bible (and guns)? Tom Waltz's social/political satire "EMERICA: A
Nation of Self-Reliance" endeavors to answer that very question.
Politica
THE IMMEDIATE EFFECT You read about the blast effects of a lone nuclear weapon on a large city - this issue Dr. Alan Phillips draws us in on the grisly details of what happens medically when we're attacked by a radioactive weapon of mass destruction. Sci-fi? Hardly, especially when terrorists keep getting bolder and bolder. (Part II of a continuing series!)
Music
NEVER MIND THE BUZZCOCKS HERE’S BUZZKUNST
“The event had only been announced days before. Little information had been made available, nor had demos circulated. No one knew what to expect and it silenced many who expected more of the same.” Punk legend Howard Devoto on stage with Pete Shelley for the first time in more than 20 years! Ian Greaves was there. Photographs by Jo Warner.
Literature
BYTE-SIZED: LIT LITE FOR AN ACCELERATED CULTURE
Writers this issue: Lucie Aveliere, Chris Byrne, Greg Farnum, Bob Castle, Charles Langley, D. Renee Heslin, Andrew Gallix, and Thomas J. Miller.
Crazy Americana
AMERICAN BRAVES & THE AMISH DOWN UNDER
"We had just set out for a tour of Lancaster, Pennsylvania – the Dutch Country. Two days and one night among the Amish... ...The Amish, their religion and the big open countryside were there for the benefit of the tourist -- the modern American Brave." By Andrew Gifford.
Literature
LITERARY INTERVIEW: MEET SCRAWL
Andrew Gallix interviews Welsh novelist, Jeremy Dean.
Entertainment
APPARENTDEPTH JOURNAL -> New 12/04/2000
Halloween, pregnancy, an inconclusive election, purple hair, Florida, weight loss and zits, a kiss-off letter and hairdo hell. Oh, and Natalie discovers that her life has been turned into an episode of Jerry Springer. The 3AM soap is back...with a vengeance!
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