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Offbeat Generation
The Offbeat generation was a loose association of like-minded writers working across different styles but united by their opposition to a mainstream publishing industry driven by marketing departments. The term—coined by Andrew Gallix in '' 3:AM Magazine'' in February 2006—was a pun on the Beat Generation but more likely to be associated with the Chemical generation immediately before it (who were anthologised at the ''Repetitive Beat Generation'' also). In August 2007 ''Arena'' wrote of them: "Young, untamed, good-looking and as influenced by punk rock as they are by Proust, a new wave of loosely-linked writers dubbed The Off-Beat Generation have been blitzing the net with stories and poems via MySpace and supportive sites such as ''3:AM Magazine'' to organise events and gain publicity." The ''Arena'' article cited Tony O'Neill, Travis Jeppesen and Tao Lin as its key members. A piece on ''The Guardian'' website discussed possible overlaps with the Brutalists. According ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AM Magazine
AM or Am may refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * A minor, a minor scale in music * ''A.M.'' (Chris Young album) * ''A.M.'' (Wilco album) * ''AM'' (Abraham Mateo album) * ''AM'' (Arctic Monkeys album) * AM (musician), American musician * Am, the A minor chord symbol * ''Armeemarschsammlung'' (Army March Collection), catalog of German military march music * Andrew Moore (musician), Canadian musician known as A.M. * DJ AM, American DJ and producer * Skengdo & AM, British hip hop duo Television and radio * ''AM'' (ABC Radio), Australian current affairs radio program * '' American Morning'', American morning television news program * ''Am, Antes del Mediodía'', Argentine current affairs television program * Am, a character in the anthology '' Star Wars: Visions'' Other media * Allied Mastercomputer, the antagonist of the short story " I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" Education * Active Minds, a mental health awareness charity * Arts et Métiers ParisTech, a French ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Noah Cicero
Noah Cicero (born October 10, 1980) is an American novelist, short-story writer. He lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. He is the author of six books of fiction and two ebooks. Cicero's stories, poetry, and essays have been published in magazines such as ''Scarecrow'', ''Brittle Star'', ''Retort'', ''Nth Position'', ''Black Ice'', Identity Theory, ''Prague Literary Review'', and many others. His fiction is anthologized in ''The Edgier Waters'', published by '' 3:AM Magazine'' in 2006. Bibliography ;Novels * ''The Human War'' (2003, Fugue State Press; foreign publications include Snowbooks, London 2007; as well as editions in Greek and German) * ''The Condemned'' (2006, Six Gallery Press) * ''Burning Babies'' (2006, Parlor Press) * ''Treatise'' (2008, A-Head Publishing) * ''The Insurgent'' (2010, Blatt) * ''Best Behavior'' (2011, Civil Coping Mechanisms) * ''Go to Work and Do Your Job. Care for Your Children. Pay Your Bills. Obey the Law. Buy Products.'' (2013, Lazy Fascist Press) * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Less Than Zero (novel)
''Less than Zero'' is the debut novel of Bret Easton Ellis, published in 1985. It was his first published effort, released when he was 21 years old and still a student at Bennington College. The novel was titled after the Elvis Costello song of the same name. Plot summary The novel follows the life of Clay, a rich, young college student who has returned to his hometown of Los Angeles, California for winter break circa 1984. Through first-person narration, Clay describes his progressive alienation from the culture around him, loss of faith in his friends, and his meditations on events in his recent past. After reuniting with his ex-girlfriend Blair, and friends like Trent, now a successful model, Clay embarks on a series of drug-fueled nights of partying, during which he has one-night stands with both sexes. While partying, he tries to track down his best friend from high school, Julian, with whom he hasn't spoken in months. In between descriptions of his days and nights, Clay rec ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gavin James Bower
Gavin James Bower (born 28 October 1982, in Lancashire) is a British writer, lecturer and editor. His first novel, ''Dazed & Aroused'', was published by Naim Attallah's Quartet Books in July 2009. Graduating from the University of Sheffield with a BA in History in 2004, he then interned at '' Dazed & Confused'' magazine in London and subsequently joined modelling agencies in London, Paris and Milan, taking part in Paris Fashion Week shows for John Galliano and Hermes. He has contributed to the ''Guardian'', '' 3:AM Magazine'' and the ''Sunday Telegraph''. His second novel, ''Made in Britain'', was published in September 2011. In 2014 he joined the writing team for ''EastEnders ''EastEnders'' is a Television in the United Kingdom, British soap opera created by Julia Smith (producer), Julia Smith and Tony Holland which has been broadcast on BBC One since February 1985. Set in the fictional borough of Walford in the Ea ...'', with his first episode being broadcast on 9 Sept ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Heidi James
''Heidi'' (; ) is a work of children's fiction published in 1881 by Swiss author Johanna Spyri, originally published in two parts as ''Heidi: Her Years of Wandering and Learning'' (german: Heidis Lehr- und Wanderjahre) and ''Heidi: How She Used What She Learned'' (german: Heidi kann brauchen, was es gelernt hat). It is a novel about the events in the life of a 5-year-old girl in her paternal grandfather's care in the Swiss Alps. It was written as a book "for children and those who love children" (as quoted from its subtitle). ''Heidi'' is one of the best-selling books ever written and is among the best-known works of Swiss literature. Plot Heidi is an orphaned girl initially raised by her maternal grandmother and aunt Dete in Maienfeld, in the Grisons, after the early deaths of her parents, Tobias and Adelheid (Dete's brother-in-law and sister). Shortly after the grandmother's death, Dete is offered a good job as a maid in the big city, and takes 5-year-old Heidi to her pat ... [...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] |
Tom McCarthy (novelist)
Tom McCarthy (born 1969) is an English writer and artist. His debut novel, ''Remainder'', was published in 2005 by Metronome. McCarthy has twice been nominated for the Man Booker, and was awarded the inaugural Windham-Campbell Literature Prize by Yale University in 2013. He won a Believer Book Award for ''Remainder'' in 2008. He has also written a critical study of Tintin (character), Tintin called ''Tintin and the Secret of Literature,'' and published an essay collection, ''Typewriters, Bombs, and Jellyfish'', in 2017''.'' His most recent novel, ''The Making of Incarnation'', was published in 2021. Life and work Tom McCarthy was born in London in 1969 and lives in Berlin. He grew up in Greenwich, and was educated at Dulwich College (from 1978 to 1986) and later New College, Oxford, where he studied English literature. He lived in Prague, where he worked as a nude model and in an American bar; Berlin, where he worked in an Irish pub; and Amsterdam, where he worked in a restaura ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Adelle Stripe
Adelle Stripe (born 1976) is an English writer and journalist. Work Stripe's writing is rooted in the non-fiction novel form and explores working-class culture, untold histories of Northern England, popular music, and small-town life. ''Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile'', her debut novel, was based on the life and work of Bradford playwright Andrea Dunbar. The novel was shortlisted for the Gordon Burn Prize and the Portico Prize. A stage adaptation by Freedom Studios and screenwriter Lisa Holdsworth toured across Yorkshire in 2019. ''Ten Thousand Apologies'' is her recent biography of cult UK band Fat White Family. It is a collaborative work with lead singer Lias Saoudi. The book traces the group's origins from working-class Huddersfield to Algeria, via sectarian Northern Ireland and the squats of south London. Writing in the ''Observer'', Miranda Sawyer described it as a 'bleak, funny and compelling biography.' As a journalist, Stripe has written features on theatre, film ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Lee Rourke
Lee Rourke (born 1972) is an English writer and literary critic. His books include the short story collection ''Everyday'', the novels ''The Canal'' (winner of '' The Guardian’s'' Not The Booker Prize in 2010), ''Vulgar Things'', and ''Glitch'', and the poetry collections ''Varroa Destructor'' and ''Vantablack''. Career Rourke is a contributing editor at '' 3:AM Magazine'', has a literary column at the ''New Humanist'', and has written regularly for ''The Guardian'', ''The Times Literary Supplement'', ''Bookforum'', ''The Independent'', and the ''New Statesman''. From 2012 to 2014, he was Writer-in-Residence at Kingston University, where he later lectured in the MFA Programme in creative writing and critical theory. After leaving Kingston University, he taught creative writing at the University of East London and Middlesex University. He currently lives in Leigh-on-Sea, England. Work Novels * Glitch - an unflinching study of grief. * Vulgar Things - part mystery, part r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ben Myers
Benjamin Myers (born January 1976) is an English writer and journalist. Early life Myers grew up in Belmont, County Durham, and was a pupil at the estate's local comprehensive school where he become interested in reading and skateboarding. Myers attended his first concert in Durham in March 1990, when he was fourteen. Headlined by Steadfast, it led to him forming the punk rock band Sour Face the next year. The band quickly became involved in the Durham hardcore punk scene, alongside Steadfast, False Face and XdisciplineX. Despite being one of the few bands in the scene that was not straight edge, Sour Face became the mascots of the scene, with their third performance seeing them open for NOFX. Voorhees' first performance was opening for Sour Face in September 1991. As a teenager Myers began writing for British weekly ''Melody Maker''. In 1997 he became their staff writer while residing in the Oval Mansions squat for several years. In 2011 he published an article, about his ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brutalists
Brutalism is a literary movement formed in 2006 by three writers from the north of England (Tony O'Neill, Adelle Stripe and Ben Myers). The Brutalists are affiliated with the Offbeat generation, a loose association of like-minded writers working across different styles but united by their opposition to a mainstream publishing industry driven by marketing departments. The movement may have been the first literary movement to be launched via the social networking site Myspace. Brutalist works include ''Digging the Vein'', ''Down and Out on Murder Mile'', ''Seizure Wet Dreams'', and ''Songs from the Shooting Gallery'' by Tony O'Neill, ''Some Things Are Better Left Unsaid'' and ''Cigarettes in Bed'' by Adelle Stripe, and ''The Book of Fuck'', '' Richard: A Novel'' and ''Pig Iron'' by Ben Myers. Their debut publication ''Nowhere Fast'' was released as a chapbook on Captains of Industry Press in 2007. Brutalism 2 ''Cheap Thrills'' was released in summer 2009 as part of Mineshaft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Beat Generation
The Beat Generation was a literary subculture movement started by a group of authors whose work explored and influenced American culture and politics in the post-war era. The bulk of their work was published and popularized by Silent Generationers in the 1950s, better known as Beatniks. The central elements of Beat culture are the rejection of standard narrative values, making a spiritual quest, the exploration of American and Eastern religions, the rejection of economic materialism, explicit portrayals of the human condition, experimentation with psychedelic drugs, and sexual liberation and exploration. Allen Ginsberg's ''Howl'' (1956), William S. Burroughs' ''Naked Lunch'' (1959), and Jack Kerouac's ''On the Road'' (1957) are among the best known examples of Beat literature.Charters (1992) ''The Portable Beat Reader''. Both ''Howl'' and ''Naked Lunch'' were the focus of obscenity trials that ultimately helped to liberalize publishing in the United States.Ann Charters, ''int ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
