We'll Never Have Paris

by Andrew Gallix

  Elsa Court is a French-born journalist and academic. She is an expat culture columnist for the Financial Times and a literary criticism editor at Review 31. She is the author of Émigré Representations of the American Roadside 1955-85: Explorations in Literature, Film, and Photography (Palgrave MacMillan, 2019). Her essays and book reviews have appeared in the Times Literary Supplement, Los Angeles Review of Books, London Review of Books blog, and elsewhere. She lives in London, and teaches French cinema and culture at Oxford University. @ElsaCourt

  Thom Cuell is the Editorial Director of independent publishing company Dodo Ink, and Senior Editor of the journal Minor Literature[s]. His writing has appeared in 3:AM Magazine and Review 31. He edited Dostoyevsky Wannabe’s Cities series on Manchester (2018). @TheWorkshyFop

  Cody Delistraty is a writer based in New York and Paris. He writes essays for the New York Times, Paris Review and Frieze, among others. He is at work on his first novel. https://delistraty.com/ @Delistraty

  Brian Dillon ’s books include Essayism (Fitzcarraldo Editions, 2017), The Great Explosion (Penguin, 2015), Objects in This Mirror: Essays (Sternberg Press, 2014) and I Am Sitting in a Room (Cabinet Books, 2012). He is an editor of Cabinet magazine, and teaches writing at the Royal College of Art, London. @briangdillon

  Rob Doyle ’s first novel, Here Are the Young Men, was published in 2014 by Bloomsbury and the Lilliput Press. It was one of Hot Press magazine’s “20 Greatest Irish Novels 1916-2016”, and is currently being adapted for film. His second book, This Is the Ritual (Bloomsbury/Lilliput, 2016) was a book of the year in the Irish Times, Sunday Times and New Statesman. Rob is the editor of The Other Irish Tradition (Dalkey Archive Press, 2018) and In This Skull Hotel Where I Never Sleep (Broken Dimanche Press, 2018). His writing has also appeared in the Guardian, Irish Times, Dublin Review, Vice, and elsewhere. His third book will be published by Bloomsbury in early 2020. https://robdoyle.net/

  Nathan Dragon has been published in NOON Annual, New York Tyrant, Egress and 3:AM. Magazine. Dragon lives in Salem, MA and is currently finishing a book of short fiction. https://nathandragon.wordpress.com/

  Lauren Elkin is an award-winning writer and translator, most recently the author of Flâneuse: Women Walk the City (Chatto & Windus, 2016). Her next book, Art Monsters (Chatto & Windus), looks at an aesthetics of monstrosity in the last century of women’s writing, art, music, and fashion. She lives in Paris. @LaurenElkin

  Wendy Erskine lives in Belfast. She is the author of Sweet Home (The Stinging Fly Press, 2018), a collection of short stories. Her writing has also appeared in several issues of The Stinging Fly, as well as in Being Various: New Irish Short Stories (Faber & Faber, 2019), Stinging Fly Stories (2018), Winter Papers (2018), Female Lines: New Writing by Women from Northern Ireland (New Island Books, 2017) and on BBC Radio 4. @WednesdayErskine

  Gerard Evans wrote for years under the nom de plume George Berger. After working for Sounds, he wrote Dance Before The Storm: The Official Story Of The Levellers (Virgin, 1998) and The Story Of Crass (Omnibus, 2006) among other things. He is also vocalist for punk band Flowers in the Dustbin and teaches mindfulness in Brighton, UK. Together with writer Jon Wilde, he recently released The Turning Point (Zen 23, 2018), a book about mindfulness. https://zen23.co.uk/

  Paul Ewen is a New Zealand writer based in south London. His first book, London Pub Reviews (Shoes with Rockets, 2008), was called “a cross between Blade Runner and Coronation Street” (Waterstones). His first novel, Francis Plug: How To Be A Public Author (Galley Beggar Press, 2014), appeared on numerous Books of the Year lists, won a Society of Authors McKitterick Prize, and was described by the Sunday Times as “a brilliant, deranged new comic creation”. His new Francis Plug novel, Writer in Residence (Galley Beggar Press, 2018), has been called “Glorious… another outstandingly funny book” (Guardian), and seen him heralded “the saviour of comic fiction” (Spectator). @GalleyBeggars

  Utahna Faith is a writer, farmer, mama, who lives in New Orleans. Her stories have appeared in Flash Fiction Forward and Exquisite Corpse: A Journal of Letters and Life. She is working on a novel entitled Daylights Out of Me. @utahna

  Gerry Feehily is the author of Gunk (Galley Beggar / 3:AM Press, 2014) and Fever (Parthian, 2008). He lives in Paris.

  Natalie Ferris is a Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow in the School of Literatures, Languages & Cultures at the University of Edinburgh. She has contributed art and literary criticism to publications such as Frieze, The Guardian, The White Review, Tate Etc. and is currently finalising her monograph Abstraction in Post-War British Literature 1945-1980 for publication. https://edinburgh.academia.edu/ NatalieFerris@ResidntPheasant

  Steve Finbow ’s fiction includes Balzac of the Badlands (Future Fiction London, 2009), Tougher Than Anything in the Animal Kingdom (Grievous Jones Press, 2011), Nothing Matters (Snubnose Press, 2012) and Down Among the Dead (Number Thirteen Press, 2014). His biography of Allen Ginsberg in Reaktion’s Critical Lives series was published in 2011. His other works include Grave Desire: A Cultural History of Necrophilia (Zero Books, 2014), Notes From the Sick Room (Repeater Books, 2017) and Death-Mort-Tod: A European Book of the Dead (Infinity Land Press, 2018). He is currently working on a book called Being & Happiness. He lives in France. http://indifferentmultiplicities.blogspot.com/ @stevefinbow

  Tristan Foster is a writer from Sydney, Australia. His short story collection Letter to the Author of the Letter to the Father (2018) is published by Transmission Press. He is co-editor-in-chief of 3:AM Magazine. https://tristanfoster.wordpress.com/ @tristan_foster

  Steven J. Fowler is a writer and artist who works in poetry, fiction, theatre, video, photography, visual art, sound art and performance. He has published seven collections of poetry, three of artworks, four of collaborative poetry, plus volumes of selected essays and selected collaborations. He has been commissioned by Tate Modern, BBC Radio 3, Tate Britain, the London Sinfonietta, Wellcome Collection and Liverpool Biennial. http://www.stevenj-fowler.com/ @stevenjfowler

  Andrew Gallix is an Anglo-French writer and freelance journalist who teaches at Sorbonne Université (Paris IV) and edits 3:AM Magazine. His work has appeared in the Guardian, Irish Times, Times Literary Supplement, Financial Times, Independent, Literary Review, New Statesman, BBC Radio 3 and elsewhere. He co-edited Punk is Dead: Modernity Killed Every Night (Zero Books, 2017). Andrew divides his time between Scylla and Charybdis. https://andrewgallix.com/ @andrewgallix

  Greg Gerke’s work has appeared in the Paris Review Daily, Kenyon Review Online, Denver Quarterly, Quarterly West, Mississippi Review, LIT, Film Quarterly, and elsewhere. He is the author of He Lives in Brooklyn (Queen’s Ferry Press, 2015). http://www.greggerke.com/ @Greg_Gerke

  Jonathan Gibbs is a writer and critic based in London. He has published two novels: Randall, or The Painted Grape (Galley Beggar Press, 2016) and The Large Door (Boiler House, 2019). He lectures in Creative and Professional Writing at St Mary’s University, Twickenham, and curates the “Personal Anthology” short fiction project: https://apersonalanthology.com/ @tiny_camels

  Niven Govinden is the author of five novels, We Are the New Romantics (Bloomsbury, 2004), Graffiti My Soul (Canongate, 2007), Black Bread White Beer (The Friday Project, 2012), All the Days and Nights (The Friday Project, 2014) and This Brutal House (Dialogue Books, 2019). Black Bread White Beer won the 2013 Fiction Uncovered Prize and was longlisted for the DSC Prize. All the Days And Nights was longlisted for the Folio Prize and shortlisted for the Green Carnation Prize. @niven_govinden

  Adrian Grafe grew up in Oxfordshire, and lives in Paris. An English professor at Université d’Artois, he has published many articles and book reviews on poetry, and several books, including Edward Thomas: Roads from Arras, a multi-author essay collection co-edited with Andrew McKeown (Cambridge Scholars, 2018).

  Julian Hanna is Assistant Professor at Madeira Interactive Technologies Institute in Portugal. His creative work has featured in The Atlantic, 3:AM Magazine, Berfrois, Minor Literatu
re[s] and elsewhere. He writes a blog called Crap Futures with the Paris-based designer James Auger, which provides a nice excuse to visit the city. He is the author of The Manifesto Handbook (Zero Books, 2019) and Manifestos from the Machine Age to the Digital Age (Palgrave Macmillan). http://crapfutures.tumblr.com @julianisland & @crapfutures

  Owen Hatherley writes regularly on aesthetics and politics for, among others, Architectural Review, Dezeen, The Guardian and Prospect. He is the author of several books, most recently Landscapes of Communism (Penguin, 2015), The Ministry of Nostalgia (Verso, 2016), The Chaplin Machine (Pluto, 2016, based on a PhD thesis accepted by Birkbeck College in 2011), Trans-Europe Express (Penguin, 2018) and The Adventures of Owen Hatherley in the Post-Soviet Space (Repeater, 2018). He is the culture editor of Tribune.

  David Hayden ’s work has appeared in The Stinging Fly, Granta and Zoetrope All-Story. His collection of stories, Darker With the Lights On (Little Island Press), came out in 2017. He is currently working on a novel. @seventydys

  Tomoé Hill is a contributing editor at Minor Literature[s]. Her reviews and essays have appeared in Numéro Cinq, 3:AM Magazine, Berfrois, Lapsus Lima and elsewhere. She was co-author of the XX and XY series reviewing classic erotic literature for The Amorist, and is currently working on Normal/Hunger, a memoir about sex and identity. She lives in London. @CuriosoTheGreat

  Andrew Robert Hodgson is author of the novel Reper-fusion (WPS&B, 2012), the novelesque Mnemic Symbols (Dostoyevsky Wannabe, 2019) and monograph The Post-War Experimental Novel (Bloomsbury, 2019). He is translator from the French of Roland Topor’s Head-to-toe Portrait of Suzanne (Atlas Press, 2018) and from the Danish, Carl Julius Salomonsen’s Modern Forms of Art and Contagious Mental Illness (New Documents, 2019). @andhodgson

  Jennifer Hodgson is a writer and critic from Hull. She edited The Unmapped Country (& Other Stories, 2018), a collection of stories by the writer Ann Quin. Her next book will be about Quin’s life and work. https://jenniferhodgson.co.uk/ @jenniferhodgson

  John Holten ’s first novel The Readymades was published in 2011 by Broken Dimanche Press, the “fictional” art press he co-founded in Berlin in 2009. It was followed up by the novel Oslo, Norway in 2015. Holten has collaborated with many visual artists on texts and publications in recent years. He has been awarded Literature Bursaries from the Arts Council of Ireland, most recently in 2017. The Readymades is republished in Ireland by gorse editions. http://www.johnholten.com/ @brokendimanche

  Stewart Home is an award-winning visual artist and the author of fifteen novels, seven works of cultural commentary, one collection of stories and one collection of poetry. His most recent book is Re-Enter The Dragon: Genre Theory, Brucesploitation & the Sleazy Joys of Lowbrow Cinema (The LedaTape Organisation, 2018). Home was born and lives in London. When he isn’t shredding copies of his own books as live art, he likes to entertain audiences by standing on his head spewing obscenities. https://www.stewarthomesociety.org/ @stewarthome1

  Andrew Hussey is Professor of Cultural History at the School of Advanced Study, University of London and a Paris resident. He has written several books including The Game of War: The Life and Death of Guy Debord (Cape, 2001), Paris: The Secret History (Penguin, 2006) and The French Intifada: The Long War Between France and its Arabs (Granta, 2015). He is a regular contributor to the Guardian and New Statesman and is the writer/presenter of several BBC documentaries. He was awarded an OBE in 2011 for services to Anglo–French cultural relations.

  Heidi James is the author of three novels: Carbon (Blatt Books, 2009), Wounding (Bluemoose Books, 2014) and So the Doves (Bluemoose Books, 2017), which was a Sunday Times Crime Novel of the Month. Her novella The Mesmerist’s Daughter (Neon Press, 2015) won the Saboteur Award. Her essays, poetry and short stories have appeared in numerous publications and anthologies. She has an MA in Creative Writing and a PhD in English Literature and is the 2015 recipient of the Dr. Rajini Pani Outstanding Faculty Award. https://heidijames.me/ @heidipearljames

  Rosalind Jana is an author, journalist and poet. She has written for many publications including British Vogue, Buzzfeed, Dazed & Confused, AnOther,BBC Radio 4, Refinery29, Broadly and Suitcase. Her debut non-fiction book Notes on Being Teenage came out with Hachette (Wayland) in 2016. She has performed her poetry widely, with her first collection Branch and Vein available through the New River Press. http://www.rosalindjana.com/ @rosalindjana

  Sam Jordison is an author, journalist and publisher. He is the co-director of the award-winning independent publisher Galley Beggar Press. He also writes about books for The Guardian and has published several works of non-fiction including Enemies Of The People (about Brexit and Trump and the people behind them both), Crap Towns (about the worst places to live in the UK) and, most recently, The 10 Worst Of Everything (pretty self-explanatory). He lives in Norwich. http://galleybeggar.co.uk, https://www.theguardian.com/ profile/samjordison @samjordison

  Richard Kovitch is a London-based writer, director and producer, whose work has won awards in Europe and the US. He works regularly for the BBC and Channel 4. His writing on film and music has been published by 3:AM Magazine and Gorse. His debut feature documentary Penny Slinger — Out Of The Shadows was released to worldwide acclaim in 2017. https://www.richardkovitch.com/ @RKovitch_

  Evan Lavender-Smith ’s writing has been published by Arts & Letters, BOMB, Colorado Review, Denver Quarterly, Egress, Harvard Review, Hobart, New England Review, The Southern Review, The White Review and many other magazines and websites. He is the author of Avatar (Six Gallery Press, 2011) and From Old Notebooks (Dzanc Books, 2013), the founding editor of Noemi Press, and an assistant professor in the MFA program at Virginia Tech. http://el-s.net/ @elavendersmith

  Sophie Mackintosh won the 2016 White Review short-story prize and the 2016 Virago/Stylist short-story compe-tition, and has been published in Granta and The Stinging Fly. Her debut novel,The Water Cure (Hamish Hamilton) was longlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize. http://sophie-mackintosh.co.uk/ @fairfairisles

  Richard Marshall has been a contributing editor at 3:AM Magazine since 2000. He is the author of Philosophy at 3:AM (OUP, 2014) and Ethics at 3:AM (OUP, 2017) which collects some of the interviews with leading philosophers he has undertaken at 3:AM Magazine in the ongoing “End Times” series. He likes to bide his time.

  Susana Medina is the author of Philosophical Toys (Dalkey Archive Press, 2015), offspring of which are the short films Buñuel’s Philosophical Toys and Leather-Bound Stories (co-directed with Derek Ogbourne); Red Tales (bilingual ed. co-translated with Rosie Marteau, Araña editorial, 2012); Poem 66 (bilingual ed. trans. R. Marteau, Good Morning Menagerie, 2018/the runner-up in their Translation Contest), and Souvenirs del Accidente (Germanía, 2004). She has been awarded the Max Aub Short Story International Prize and an ACE Writing Grant for Spinning Days of Night. http://www.susanamedina.net/SUSANA_MEDINA.html @SusanaMedina_

  Tom McCarthy is a novelist whose work has been translated into more than twenty languages. His first novel,Remainder (2005) won the 2008 Believer Book Award and was recently adapted for the cinema. His third, C (Jonathan Cape), was a 2010 Booker Prize finalist, as was his fourth, Satin Island (Jonathan Cape), in 2015. McCarthy is also the author of the study Tintin and the Secret of Literature (Granta, 2006), and of the essay collection Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish (New York Review Books, 2017). He contributes regularly to publications such as the New York Times, London Review of Books, Harper’s and Artforum. In 2013 he was awarded the inaugural Windham Campbell Prize for Fiction by Yale University. He lives in Berlin.

  Robert McLiam Wilson is the author of three novels: Ripley Bogle (Andre Deutsch, 1989), Manfred’s Pain (Picador, 1992) and Eureka Street (Harvill Secker, 1996). Ripley Bogle won the Rooney Prize and the Hughes Prize in 1989, as well as a Betty Trask Award and the Irish Book Awards in 1990. In 2003 McLiam Wilson featured among Granta’s 20 “Best of Young British Novelists”. Originally from Belfast, he now lives in Paris, where he writes for Charlie Hebdo. @Parisb
ob2001

  Jo Mortimer lived in Paris for a few years, working and studying an MA in Paris Studies: History and Culture. During this time she was lucky enough to meet and walk with Will Self. She is now tucked away in the foothills of the South Downs, UK, working as a proofreader and room guide in Virginia Woolf’s home. Step by step, the novel is coming together and a few short stories can be found online and in print. www.joproofreader.com @JoMortimer2903

  Yelena Moskovich is a Soviet-born, American and French artist and writer, author of Virtuoso (Serpent’s Tail, 2019) and The Natashas (Serpent’s Tail, 2016). She studied theatre at Emerson College, Boston, and in France at the Lecoq School of Physical Theatre and Université Paris VIII. Her plays and performances have been produced in the US, Canada, France and Sweden. She has also written for the New Statesman, Paris Review, The Happy Reader and 3:AM Magazine, and in French for Mixt(e) Magazine. Yelena won the 2017 Galley Beggar Press Short Story Prize. In 2018, she was a curator and exhibiting artist for the Los Angeles Queer Biennial. https://www.yelenamoskovich.com/ @yelenamoskovich

  Alex Pheby teaches at the University of Greenwich. He is the author of Grace (Two Ravens Press, 2009), Playthings (Galley Beggar Press, 2015) — shortlisted for the 2016 Wellcome Book Prize — and Lucia (Galley Beggar Press, 2018). @alexpheby

  Ashton Politanoff lives in Redondo Beach, California. His writing has appeared in NOON, Conjunctions, Egress, New York Tyrant, and elsewhere. https://ashtonpolitanoff.com/ @APolitanoff

  Max Porter is the author of Lanny (Faber & Faber, 2019) and Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (Faber & Faber, 2015), which won the Sunday Times/Peter, Fraser & Dunlop Young Writer of the Year, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Europese Literatuurprijs and the BAMB Readers’ Award and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award as well as the Goldsmiths Prize. It has been translated into twenty-seven languages. He lives in Bath with his family. https://www.maxporter.co.uk/ @maxjohnporter