3:AM Magazine Podcast

"You can view this as a short letter with three hundred pages attached…" For the last 10 years freelance writer Wayne Gooderham has been collecting second-hand books as much for the dedications they contain as the literature itself. On the occasion of the exhibition of his collection at Foyles in London, Wayne talks to 3:AM Magazine about some of his favourites. The exhbition runs until the 13th of December 2012 in the café at Foyles, 113-119 Charing Cross Road, London. Learn more about Wayne's collection on his blog here: http://bookdedications.wordpress.com Follow Wayne on Twitter here: @waynegooderham ABOUT THE INTERVIEWER Curator of the 3:AM Podcast series, Adam Biles is a Paris-based writer and translator. His first novel, Grey Cats, has just been released by 3:AM Press. http://www.adambiles.com @adambiles http://www.3ammagazine.com http://3ampress.tumblr.com @3ammagazine

Louis-Ferdinand Céline was the pen name of Louis Ferdinand Destouches (27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961). He was a French novelist, pamphleteer and physician. He is best known for his novels "Journey to the End of the Night" and "Death on Credit", obscene, frightening and comic masterpieces that changed the face of 20th century literature. Gerard Connolly is a librarian and scholar, researching writers and the Great War at the National Centre for Franco-Irish Studies at ITT, Dublin. He takes 3:AM Magazine on a tour of some of the Parisian locations important to Céline's life and work. Adam Biles is a Paris-based writer and translator. His first novel "Grey Cats" has just been released by 3:AM Press. www.3ammagazine.com // @3amMagazine 3ampress.tumblr.com // @3amPress www.adambiles.com // @adambiles ******************************************************* The extracts read during this podcast were taken from - "Journey to the End of the Night", translated by Ralph Manheim, orginally published by Calder. Now available from Alma Classics in the UK (www.almaclassics.com) and in the US from New Directions (www.ndbooks.com). "Death on the Installment Plan", translated by Ralph Manheim, published by New Directions in the US and Alma Classics (as "Death on Credit") in the UK. Chapters containing extracts are marked either "Journey" or "Credit". Please support these independent publishers.

"Some people say that when they are happy they sing and dance. But I say, when I sing and dance, I am happy… You have a duty to yourself to do something about your situation. So sing and dance, be happy, take a hot shower, make love, whatever… You want a cure for your unhappiness? Get yourself a lover." Godfather of the counter-cultural underground, Jim Haynes talks to 3:AM about his childhood in Louisiana and Venezuela, opening the UK's first paperback bookstore, his friendship with Henry Miller, the legendary 1962 International Writers Conference, London in the sixties, hanging out with The Beatles and The Rolling Stones, the demystification of sexuality and art, where the sexual revolution went wrong, founding the International Times (IT), SUCK Magazine and The Wet Dream Film Festival, travelling on a World Passport, Paris and May 1968… and - if you can believe it - much more besides. www.3ammagazine.com Twitter: @3ammagazine Interview by Adam Biles. www.adambiles.com Twitter: @adambiles Jim Haynes portraits by Sarah Skinner www.takako.com All content © 2012.