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***3:AM Magazine*** is a literary magazine, which was set up as 3ammagazine.com in April 2000 and is edited from [Paris](/source/Paris), France. Its editor-in-chief since inception has been Andrew Gallix, a lecturer at the [Sorbonne](/source/University_of_Paris_(post-1970)).[1]

*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.](https://www.tcm.com/video/306405/horse-feathers-1932-movie-clip-im-against-it)"

## History

The magazine was launched in 2000. In 2004, the editors unsuccessfully tried to prevent the *[Daily Mirror](/source/Daily_Mirror)* newspaper from publishing a short-lived *3am Magazine* supplement based around its [3am Girls](/source/The_3AM_Girls) gossip column.[2] The site was called "irreverently highbrow" by [Heather Stewart](/source/Heather_Stewart) in *[The Observer](/source/The_Observer)*,[3] and described as aiming to be "an online [Fitzrovia](/source/Fitzrovia)" by Lilian Pizzichini in *[The Daily Telegraph](/source/The_Daily_Telegraph).*[4] [Boyd Tonkin](/source/Boyd_Tonkin), in *[The Independent](/source/The_Independent)*, described it as keeping "faith with the old little-review tradition of *avant-garde* provocation and seditious literary cheek"[5] and Inés Martin Rodrigo, in Spanish daily *[ABC](/source/ABC_(newspaper))*, likened it to an "[Offbeats](/source/Offbeat_generation)' *[New Yorker](/source/The_New_Yorker)*".[6]

An anthology covering its first five years of publishing, *The Edgier Waters*, was published in Britain by Snowbooks in June 2006,[7] featuring writers [Steve Almond](/source/Steve_Almond), [Bruce Benderson](/source/Bruce_Benderson), [Michael Bracewell](/source/Michael_Bracewell_(writer)), [Tom Bradley](/source/Tom_Bradley_(author)), [Billy Childish](/source/Billy_Childish), [Steven Hall](/source/Steven_Hall_(author)), [Ben Myers](/source/Ben_Myers), [Tim Parks](/source/Tim_Parks), [Mark Simpson](/source/Mark_Simpson_(journalist)), [HP Tinker](/source/HP_Tinker) and Kenji Siratori, as well as poetry pieces arranged by [Sonic Youth](/source/Sonic_Youth)'s [Thurston Moore](/source/Thurston_Moore) and [Lee Ranaldo](/source/Lee_Ranaldo) alongside [Tyondai Braxton](/source/Tyondai_Braxton).

A volume of city-themed fiction, *3:AM London, Paris, New York*, followed in 2008[8] and featured [Henry Baum](/source/Henry_Baum), [Chris Cleave](/source/Chris_Cleave), [Niven Govinden](/source/Niven_Govinden), [Laura Hird](/source/Laura_Hird), [Toby Litt](/source/Toby_Litt), [Lee Rourke](/source/Lee_Rourke), [Nicholas Royle](/source/Nicholas_Royle), [Matt Thorne](/source/Matt_Thorne) and [Evie Wyld](/source/Evie_Wyld).[9]

In July 2012 the site was temporarily offline due to an issue with its server provider.[10]

In 2014, a book-length collection of *3:AM'*s popular "End Times" interviews of notable philosophers (as conducted by Richard Marshall) was published by [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press) with a further volume following in 2017.[11][12]

*3:AM* was listed as being among the top 25 websites for literature lovers by Jason Diamond in *[Flavorwire](/source/Flavorwire)* in 2013.[13] and as being among Mark Thwaite's 5 favourite literary blogs in *[The Guardian](/source/The_Guardian)* in 2014.[14]

## Contents

*3:AM* sees itself as an extension of publishing traditions forged by earlier [literary magazines](/source/Literary_magazines) before the advent of [webzines](/source/Webzines).[15] It has claimed its litblog 'Buzzwords' to be the world's first (since 2000).[16] The magazine features literary criticism, fiction, poetry, and interviews with writers, philosophers and intellectuals.

In its early period, *3:AM* focused particularly on [cult](/source/Cult_fiction) and [transgressive](/source/Transgressive_fiction) fiction, for instance [Attack! Books](/source/Attack!_Books), [Stewart Home](/source/Stewart_Home), [Tom Bradley](/source/Tom_Bradley_(author)) and [Chris Kelso](/source/Chris_Kelso). Its outlook and coverage was for some years [post-punk](/source/Post-punk), particularly the emphasis on [Blank Generation](/source/Blank_Generation_(literary)) authors and elements of [Prada-Meinhof](/source/Prada-Meinhof) (for instance [Stuart Christie](/source/Stuart_Christie) and John Barker). Both [Stuckism](/source/Stuckism) and the [Medway Poets](/source/Medway_Poets) featured prominently, from [Billy Childish](/source/Billy_Childish), [Wolf Howard](/source/Wolf_Howard) and [Sexton Ming](/source/Sexton_Ming) to a column by mainstay [Charles Thomson](/source/Charles_Thomson_(artist)), though to a lesser extent *3:AM* also carried pieces supportive of [Britart](/source/Britart), in particular on [Damien Hirst](/source/Damien_Hirst) and with [Matthew Collings](/source/Matthew_Collings). There was a further strong musical presence on the site, from an extensive archive by and about punk rockers (including several interviews with members of the [Bromley Contingent](/source/Bromley_Contingent)), through to pieces by and about [Spacemen 3](/source/Spacemen_3) and other [shoegazer](/source/Shoegazer) acts.

Authors interviewed several times include [Steve Almond](/source/Steve_Almond), [Will Ashon](/source/Will_Ashon), [Stephen Barber](/source/Stephen_Barber_(writer)), Childish, [Andrei Codrescu](/source/Andrei_Codrescu), [Dennis Cooper](/source/Dennis_Cooper), [Richard Hell](/source/Richard_Hell), Stewart Home, [Tom Bradley](/source/Tom_Bradley_(author)), [Wu Ming](/source/Wu_Ming), [Michael Moorcock](/source/Michael_Moorcock), [Dan Rhodes](/source/Dan_Rhodes), [Nicholas Royle](/source/Nicholas_Royle), [Iain Sinclair](/source/Iain_Sinclair), [Scarlett Thomas](/source/Scarlett_Thomas), [Cathi Unsworth](/source/Cathi_Unsworth), [John King](/source/John_King_(author)), [Helen Walsh](/source/Helen_Walsh), [Jon Savage](/source/Jon_Savage), and [Simon Critchley](/source/Simon_Critchley). The magazine also interviewed figures in the underground press, such as [Lisa Crystal Carver](/source/Lisa_Crystal_Carver), [Lydia Lunch](/source/Lydia_Lunch), [Mick Farren](/source/Mick_Farren) and [Pleasant Gehman](/source/Pleasant_Gehman). It has carried poetry by [Charles Bukowski](/source/Charles_Bukowski) and featured interviews by Bukowski acolyte Ben Pleasants, including with [John Fante](/source/John_Fante) and [Steve Richmond](/source/Steve_Richmond_(poet)). Former [Kenickie](/source/Kenickie) and [Brian Jonestown Massacre](/source/Brian_Jonestown_Massacre) keyboardist turned novelist [Tony O'Neill](/source/Tony_O'Neill) was a regular contributor and interviewee.

Past columnists have included [Sophie Parkin](/source/Sophie_Parkin), [Ben Myers](/source/Ben_Myers), [Hillary Raphael](/source/Hillary_Raphael), and Cathi Unsworth, while past editors have included [Noah Cicero](/source/Noah_Cicero), Heidi James, [Travis Jeppesen](/source/Travis_Jeppesen), [Tao Lin](/source/Tao_Lin) (Poetry Editor), [Adelle Stripe](/source/Adelle_Stripe), [HP Tinker](/source/HP_Tinker) and [Guy Mankowski](/source/Guy_Mankowski).

[Tom McCarthy](/source/Tom_McCarthy_(novelist)) (whom it championed from the outset of his writing career) has written several pieces for *3:AM* and appeared at a number of its events.[17] *3:AM* Editor Andrew Gallix runs the unofficial Tom McCarthy site 'Surplus Matter'[18] It has reviewed, interviewed and run excerpts of avant-garde writers Lydia Lunch, Stephen Barber and Stewart Home.

Later *3:AM* became eminent in the translation of European [avant-garde poetry](/source/Avant-garde) under its *Maintenant* series. Its *3:AM* Asia strand has also covered [transgressive](/source/Transgressive_art) culture and artists, particularly from Japan. [Hiromi Suzuki](/source/Hiromi_Suzuki_(illustrator)) is one such example. The 'End Times' series of interviews with leading philosophers became a crucial part of *3:AM'*s identity, which resulted in collected interviews being published by [Oxford University Press](/source/Oxford_University_Press).[19] Recently, *3:AM* has also shown an increased engagement with avant-garde fiction and with essayistic, philosophically-inflected forms of literary criticism. In 2014, *3:AM* partnered with the [British Film Institute](/source/British_Film_Institute) for their [Derek Jarman](/source/Derek_Jarman) season on the 20th anniversary of his death. In 2016, *3:AM* reintroduced its earlier music strand of essayistic journalism and interviews. Since 2023 the site has been hosted on a server using 100 per cent sustainable energy [\[1\]](https://abisti.co.uk/services/green-web-hosting/).

## Editors

As of April 2020, the co-editor in chief of *3:AM* is Andrew Gallix, with Joseph Schrieber (non-fiction editor), Mark de Silva (fiction editor), [SJ Fowler](/source/Steven_J_Fowler) (poetry editor), Lee Rourke, Isabella Streffen, and Sylvia Warren (contributing editors).

## See also

- [List of literary magazines](/source/List_of_literary_magazines)
- [List of avant-garde magazines](/source/List_of_avant-garde_magazines)

## References

1. ["Andrew Gallix"](https://www.theguardian.com/profile/andrewgallix). *The Guardian*. Retrieved 19 August 2019.

1. Gibson, Owen (9 March 2004). ["Mirror's 3am Spin-Off Faces Legal Challenge"](https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/mar/09/pressandpublishing.mirror). *The Guardian*

1. Stewart, Heather (11 November 2012). ["The Festival of Economics 2012"](https://www.theguardian.com/business/2012/nov/11/festival-economics-debate-ideas-bristol). *The Observer*. [ISSN 0029-7712](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0029-7712). Retrieved 19 August 2019.

1. Pizzichini, Lilian (19 January 2004). ["Diary"](https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/3610389/Diary.html). *Daily Telegraph*. [ISSN 0307-1235](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0307-1235). Retrieved 19 August 2019.

1. Tonkin, Boyd (9 January 2009). ["Does the credit crunch have a silver lining for literature?"](https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/does-the-credit-crunch-have-a-silver-lining-for-literature-1232961.html). *The Independent*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20090110094837/http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/does-the-credit-crunch-have-a-silver-lining-for-literature-1232961.html) 2009-01-10 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 19 August 2019.

1. ABC. ["Sea lo que sea, estoy contra ello"](http://www.abc.es/20090126/cultura-literatura/estoy-contra-ello-200901261540.html) (in Spanish). *ABC.es*. Retrieved 25 June 2017.

1. Stevens, Andrew (2006). *Edgier waters*. London: Snowbooks. ISBN 1905005202. [OCLC 64748280](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/64748280)

1. Stevens, Andrew (2008). *3:AM London, New York, Paris*. London: Social Disease. ISBN 9780955282959. [OCLC 339242033](https://www.worldcat.org/oclc/339242033)

1. ["'Tales of the City'"](http://dogmatika.com/dm/books_more.php?id=3298_0_3_0_M). *dogmatika.com*. Retrieved 25 June 2017.

1. Clark, Nick (6 July 2012). ["Web hits delete on magazine's 12-year archive"](https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/web-hits-delete-on-magazines-12year-archive-7920565.html). *[The Independent](/source/The_Independent)*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20120706184758/http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/web-hits-delete-on-magazines-12year-archive-7920565.html) 2012-07-06 at the Wayback Machine.

1. Marshall, Richard (29 May 2014). [*Philosophy at 3:AM: Questions and Answers with 25 Top Philosophers*](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/philosophy-at-3am-9780199969531?cc=gb&lang=en&). Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199969531.

1. Marshall, Richard (7 September 2017). [*Ethics at 3:AM: Questions and Answers on How to Live Well*](https://global.oup.com/academic/product/ethics-at-3am-9780190635725?lang=en&cc=gb). Oxford, New York: Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780190635725.

1. *[The 25 Best Websites for Literature Lovers](https://web.archive.org/web/20190212105703/https://www.flavorwire.com/407418/the-25-best-websites-for-literature-lovers/9)*, Jason Diamond, 5 August 2013, [Flavorwire](/source/Flavorwire) [Archived by [Wayback Machine](/source/Wayback_Machine)]

1. Thwaite, Mark (9 June 2014). ["What became of literary blogging?"](https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2014/jun/09/literary-blogging-twitter). *The Guardian*. [ISSN 0261-3077](https://www.worldcat.org/issn/0261-3077). Retrieved 19 August 2019.

1. ["Preface -"](http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/preface/). *3ammagazine.com*. 10 June 2006. Retrieved 25 June 2017.

1. ["About"](http://andrewgallix.com/about/). *andrewgallix.com*. 24 November 2007. Retrieved 25 June 2017.

1. ["Events 2002–2011 -"](http://www.3ammagazine.com/3am/events-2003-2007/). *3ammagazine.com*. Retrieved 25 June 2017.

1. ["Surplus Matter"](https://web.archive.org/web/20100726191605/http://surplusmatter.com/about/). *surplusmatter.com*. Archived from [the original](http://surplusmatter.com/about/) on 26 July 2010. Retrieved 25 June 2017.

1. As of 2019, *3:AM* no longer hosts Richard Marshall's interviews online but they remain available on the [author's website](https://316am.site123.me/blog/index-of-all-interviewees) [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20190819154918/https://316am.site123.me/blog/index-of-all-interviewees) 19 August 2019 at the Wayback Machine

## External links

- [*3:AM* Magazine](http://www.3ammagazine.com/)

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