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[10.9.06] [Andrew Gallix]
HOW DULL LIFE MUST BE IN THE SHALLOWS!
 The Edgier Waters: 5 Years of 3:AM Magazine, edited by A. Stevens and published by Snowbooks (Small Publisher of the Year 2006), is now available in a smaller, glossy format for only 99p from Waterstone's. Here's an extract from Peter Wild's review in Bookmunch: "It's rare, a book like Edgier Waters... Just ask yourself how many books you've bought and read this year that suffer from a surfeit of ideas. Not too many I'll warrant. This is the kind of book we should cherish. This is the kind of book we should all have on our shelves, to show the world that we're not afraid of being challenged, not afraid of thinking. In point of fact, I feel sorry for the average reader, the he or she who can't deal with a book that reads like a thrilling magazine (and you have to ask yourself how they deal with life and all the things that life throws at them, if their tiny brains can't deal with the shift between a story and a poem and a piece of non-fiction). They're missing out. They're missing out on so much. But most of all they're missing out on Edgier Waters... How dull life must be in the shallows".
Mountain 7 had this to say: "There is something so right, maybe inevitable, about Michael Bracewell invoking Kathy Acker in his foreword to The Edgier Waters: 5 Years of 3:AM Magazine -- she is a constant presence in the collection as it totters across the broken glass path between punk and sex; indeed it could be said that she, along with writers like Jim Thompson, Derek Raymonde and the ubiquitous Ballard are like the book's bone marrow, its bristling DNA. This unholy quartet informs the anthology's queasy aesthetic and gives it its thrusting energy -- one leaves smiling, feeling frustrated, dazzled, pummelled, pissed".
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