About
Andrew Gallix teaches at the Sorbonne and edits 3:AM Magazine. His work has appeared in publications ranging from The Guardian and Times Literary Supplement to Dazed & Confused. He divides his time between Scylla and Charybdis.
Writer * Freelance journalist * Editor-in-Chief/owner of 3:AM Magazine (since 2000) * Inventor of the literary blog with Buzzwords (launched in 2000) * Founder of the Offbeats and the Slow Writing Movement * Teacher at the Sorbonne, Paris (since 1992) * Occasional translator. * Founder/webmaster of Surplus Matter (2006-13) * Blogger at the Guardian and Slow Planet
CONTACT:
andrew@3ammagazine.com
agallix@free.fr
FURTHER READING:
+ Illya Szilak, “Killing the Literary: The Death of E-Lit,” The Huffington Post 19 March 2013 (mentioned)
+ Tom Bradley, Rev. of Apparitional Experience, 3:AM Magazine 6 March 2013
+ Lars Iyer, “Outside Literature: The Lars Iyer Interview,” The Quarterly Conversation 31 4 March 2013 (mentioned)
+ “Reading the Unreadable,” The Stone Philosophy Links, The New York Times 27 February 2013
+ Lars Iyer, “Impossible Literature,” 3:AM Magazine 6 February 2013 (mentioned)
+ “Pathos: Andrew Gallix,” Full Stop 16 January 2013 (interview)
+ Deborah Levy, “8 Questions for Deborah Levy,” Fleeting 22 December 2012 (mentioned)
+ Nicolle Elizabeth, “Go Forth (Vol. 4),” The Believer Logger 14 November 2012 (interview)
+ Lori Hettler, “Indie Spotlight – 3:AM Press,” The Next Best Book Blog 10 November 2012 (mentioned)
+ Serena Danna, “Black out spaventa la rivista online: spariti nella Rete 12 anni di lavoro,” Corriere della Sera 11 July 2012: 29 (interview)
+ Nick Clark, “Web Hits Delete on Magazine’s 12-Year Archive,” The Independent 6 July 2012 (interview)
+ Edward Champion, “3:AM Magazine — How Twelve Years of Literary Content Disappeared in an Instant,” Reluctant Habits 6 July 2012 (interview)
+ Nathan Ihara, “Has Literature Always Been Dying Since the Beginning?” Melville House Books 12 January 2012
+ A picture of me in the punk days was posted on the ISYS tumblr on 1 November 2011
+Darran Anderson, “Unsecured by Landscape,” 3:AM Magazine 27 October 2011
+ Richard Lea, “Back to the Future of Fiction,” Guardian Books 7 October 2011 (mentioned)
+ Reading/translating with Stewart Home at Galerie Martine Aboucaya, Paris, 19 March 2011
+ Anthony Cuthbertson, “From the Lost to the Beat to Now,” Notes From the Underground 19 November 2010 [archived here]
+ Dan Holloway, “Beat Me Before I Come Up With Any More Crass Metaphors,” Eight Cuts 13 November 2010 [archived here]
+ Tom Bradley, “Upon Reading ‘Celesteville’s Burning‘” 5 October 2010
+ Katie Allen, “Indie Literary Sites Start Coming of Age,” The Bookseller 8 October 2010 [archived here]
+ Tom Bradley, “Surplus Will: the Stories of Andrew Gallix,” Put It Down in a Book (Cedar Park, TX: 2009) [pp. 21-26; archived here]
+ Tom Bradley, “Crossing Chaos Enigmatic Ink: Locus of the Enigmatic Polygeneration,” Exquisite Corpse June 2009 (mentioned and quoted) [archived here]
+ Patrice Carrer, “Repères Critiques,” Notre Dame du Vide by Tony O’Neill (Paris: 13E Notes Editions, 2009) (mentioned on p. 237 and quoted on p. 238) [archived here]
+ Jack Henry, “3:AM Magazine Interview: Andrew Gallix,” Heroin Love Songs 5 Spring 2009: 87-90 [archived here]
+ Inés Martin Rodrigo, “Alunizaje perfecto de la armada offbeat,” ABC 26 March 2009 (mentioned) [archived here]
+ ArtGerust, “La literatura Offbeat, el nacimiento de una nueva generacion,” ArtGerust 18 February 2009 (mentioned) [archived here]
+ David F. Hoenigman, “An Interview With Tom Bradley,” Word Riot February 2009 (mentioned)
+ Inés Martin Rodrigo, “‘Sea lo que sea, estoy contra ello,” ABC 16 February 2009 (quoted) [archived here]
+ Nick Kocz and Manisha Sharma respond to my Guardian piece on e-literature in their introduction to the Fall 2008 edition of The New River December 2008 [archived here]
+ Interviewed about the Offbeats (along with Gerry Feehily) in Minuit/Dix, a radio programme on France Culture 5 November 2008 (12.10pm-1am)
+ Donari Braxton, “The Consumption of Context: a Conversation With Author Hillary Raphael,” Anthem magazine 20 September 2008 (mentioned) [archived here]
+ Pat King, “Interview With Mikael Covey,” The Guild of Outsider Writers 15 June 2008 (mentioned) [archived here]
+ Jennifer Cuddy, “Offbeat With Andrew Gallix,” Literary Kicks 2 June 2008 (interviewed) [archived here]
+ John O’Connell, review of Lee Rourke’s Everyday, Time Out 4 February 2008 [archived here]
+ Huw Nesbitt, “Brit Lit of the Post-Punk Generation,” Slates 6 December 2007
+ Sarah Fakray, “Tell It Like It Is: The Offbeats,” Dazed & Confused November 2007 (quoted p. 297)
+ Lee Rourke, “Less Is More…,” Scarecrow Comment 22 October 2007 (mentioned)
+ Rebecca Gillieron and Catheryn Kilgarriff, The Bookaholics’ Guide to Book Blogs (London: Marion Boyars, 2007) (quoted on pp. 47-48 and mentioned on pp. 138, 139 and 153)
+ Susan Tomaselli, “Purposely Resisting All That: An Interview With Lee Rourke,” dogmatika September 2007 (mentioned)
+ Kelly Buckley, “Mr Writer,” The Great Small Fishes (September-November 2007) (interviewed) [archived here]
+ Tom Bradley, “Surplus Will,” nthposition 7 August 2007 (article devoted to my short stories) [archived here]
+ Sam Jordison, “Surfing the New Literary Wave,” Guardian Books Blog 12 February 2007 (mentioned) [archived here]
+ Sam Jordison, “Literature For the MySpace Generation,” The Guardian Wednesday 7 February 2007 (mentioned) [archived here]
INTERVIEWS:
+ “Pathos: Andrew Gallix,” Full Stop 16 January 2013
+ Nicolle Elizabeth, “Go Forth (Vol. 4),” The Believer Logger 14 November 2012
+ Serena Danna, “Black out spaventa la rivista online: spariti nella Rete 12 anni di lavoro,” Corriere della Sera 11 July 2012: 29
+ Nick Clark, “Web Hits Delete on Magazine’s 12-Year Archive,” The Independent 6 July 2012
+ Edward Champion, “3:AM Magazine — How Twelve Years of Literary Content Disappeared in an Instant,” Reluctant Habits 6 July 2012
+ Jack Henry, “3:AM Magazine Interview: Andrew Gallix,” Heroin Love Songs 5 Spring 2009: 87-90 [archived here]
+ Inés Martin Rodrigo, “‘Sea lo que sea, estoy contra ello,” ABC 16 February 2009 [archived here]
+ Interviewed about the Offbeats (along with Gerry Feehily) in Minuit/Dix, a radio programme on France Culture 5 November 2008 (12.10pm-1am)
+ Jennifer Cuddy, “Offbeat With Andrew Gallix,” Literary Kicks 2 June 2008 [archived here]
+ Rebecca Gillieron and Catheryn Kilgarriff, The Bookaholics’ Guide to Book Blogs (London: Marion Boyars, 2007) (quoted on pp. 47-48)
+ Kelly Buckley, “Mr Writer,” The Great Small Fishes (September-November 2007) [archived here]
Writers I like:
JG Ballard / Donald Barthelme / Jorge Luis Borges / Maurice Blanchot / Robert Coover / Arthur Cravan / Simon Critchley / Lydia Davis / Brian Dillon / Geoff Dyer / Jennifer Egan / Félix Fénéon / Macedonio Fernández / Ronald Firbank / Lars Iyer / Edmond Jabès / Anna Kavan / Nick Land / Jonathan Lethem / Deborah Levy / Sam Lipsyte / Clarice Lispector / Gary Lutz / Félicien Marboeuf / David Markson / Tom McCarthy / Steven Millhauser / Dylan Nice / Joe Orton / Jacques Rigaut / David Rose / Christine Schutt / Jean-Philippe Toussaint / Robert Walser
My favourite films:
A Cock and Bull Story (Michael Winterbottom, 2006) / Alfie (Lewis Gilbert, 1966) / Deep End (Jerzy Skolimowski , 1970) /Don’t Look Now (Nicolas Roeg, 1973) / The Graduate (Mike Nichols, 1967) / If (Lindsay Anderson, 1968) / Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders, 1984) / Sideways (Alexander Payne, 2004) / 24 Hour Party People (Michael Winterbottom, 2002) / Un Homme qui dort (Bernard Queysanne, 1974) / Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit (Steve Box & Nick Park, 2005)
