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I Was Wrong, Kind Of

textbookslater wrote 2 weeks ago: I was having an argument last night with someone about the validity of using ‘read’ as a … more →

Tags: mind adventures, apology, BookStores, descriptive retardation, dictionary-com, English, I'm still a little bit right though, Nick Cave, rants I wish I hadn't started

Reheated Cabbage

brianreads wrote 2 weeks ago: Reheated Cabbage by Irving Welsh Writers are often encouraged to publish everything even remotely pu … more →

Tags: Novel, Reading, Scotland, Short Stories

Review: Steep Theatre’s “Kill the Old, Torture Their Young”

Theater Blog wrote 1 month ago: Out of Place, Out of Time Victory Gardens presents: Kill the Old, Torture Their Young by David Harro … more →

Tags: Victory Gardens, Steep Theatre, Dramatic Comedy, 2009, Paige Listerud, victory gardens theatre, Peter Moore, Julia Siple, David Harrower

Irvine Welsh success means he can buy home for mum1 comment

oliverfarrimond wrote 1 month ago: By Rory Reynolds TOP Scots author Irvine Welsh has revealed that his dream of being able to buy a ho … more →

Tags: 1, Edinburgh, Scotland, Deadline Press & Picture Agency, deadline, Edinburgh News, Ewan McGregor, Deadline News, Leith

The Fifth Column (1996) & The Flexicon (1998)

Paul wrote 1 month ago: SOUNDTRACK: ERIC CHENAUX-Sloppy Ground (2008). It took several listens before I fully enjoyed this d … more →

Tags: David Foster Wallace, funny strange, Meta, Books about writers, Gangsters, Short Story, Poetry, smarty pants, Paul Debraski

September 27 in history1 comment

homepaddock wrote 2 months ago: On September 27: 1821 Mexico  gained its independence from Spain. 1905  The physics journal Annalen … more →

Tags: History, Wikipedia, México, NZ History Online, September 27, William Sutch, RMS Queen Elizabeth, e = mc^2, hair

Infamous Scots casual claims violence is good for game

oliverfarrimond wrote 2 months ago: By Rory Reynolds ONE of Scotland’s most violent football casuals has claimed that his thuggish behav … more →

Tags: 1, Andy Blance, Association of Chief Police Officers Scotland, Bill Aitken MSP, Capital City Service, Deadline Press and Picture Agency, Deadline Scotland, Justice Spokesman for Scottish Conservatives

Rupert: A Confession - A Review

bythefirelight wrote 2 months ago: Rupert: A Confession belongs to that genre of writing called the compulsive explainer, which feature … more →

Tags: Books, Review, Dutch, Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer, translation, Willa Cather

Choose a job... 1 comment

krunched wrote 3 months ago: The most recent ABS data indicates Australia’s unemployment rate is steady at a respectable 5. … more →

Tags: The Australian Economy, Work and Economics, Unemployment, Team K-rudd, UK economy

I read "The Bedrooms Secrets of the Master Chefs"1 comment

reidmccarter wrote 3 months ago: It was probably that diasporic (and of-so-often Scottish) sense of dispossession that got me onto a … more →

Tags: International Books, reid, The Bedroom Secrets of the Master Chefs

Updated Summer Reading Garble

hyejeabyun wrote 3 months ago: From the looks of this blog one would imagine that I do nothing but read (and subsequently nothing e … more →

Tags: Reading, jonathan strange and mr. norrell, Summer Reading, Susanna Clarke, trainspotting

Irvine Welsh

Goy Wonder wrote 4 months ago: ‘ ‘ One of my favourite celebrity encounters has to be the time I met Irvine Welsh at la … more →

Tags: latitude

An excerpt from Irvine Welsh's "The Acid House"

quanell wrote 4 months ago: I’ve been reading a bit of Irvine Welsh lately, the author of the book-gone-movie Trainspottin … more →

Tags: writing, acid house, Book Excerpt, Oedipus, Scotland, trainspotting

Nick Cave & The Death of Bunny Munro4 comments

gnunn wrote 4 months ago:   It’s been a long time between drinks, but Nick Cave is about to release his second novel, Th … more →

Tags: poetry publishing, Graham Nunn, Another Lost Shark, Nick Cave, the death of bunny munro, Warren Ellis, Text Publishing, Nick Cave & Warren Ellis, Nick Cave reads The Death of Bunny Munro

afloat

calamityjill wrote 5 months ago: Yesterday I anxiously finished If You Liked School, You’ll Love Work. I’d been flirting … more →

Tags: Academia, Books, College

Fever 2 Tell: Underwhelming You Since 2007 1 comment

fever2tell wrote 5 months ago: You might have ehrm, noticed that I really dropped the ball on that whole, “post a day”, … more →

Tags: Theater, film, Events, Travel, Niftiness, autobiography, Books, News, Movies

metaphors & similes1 comment

calamityjill wrote 5 months ago: I’m reading (and loving) my first Irvine Welsh book, If You Liked School, You’ll Love Wo … more →

Tags: Books

Permission to Read1 comment

Cliff Burns wrote 6 months ago: I’m a writer. But the printed word isn’t merely my vocation, my bread and butter; it has been, from … more →

Tags: Essays and Non Fiction, writing, Literary, Fiction, Science Fiction, Books, Essays and Reviews, Literature, Reading

Trainspotting

Daniel wrote 6 months ago: Title: Trainspotting Year: 1996 Director: Danny Boyle Writer: John Hodge, based on the novel by Irvi … more →

Tags: Movies, top 250, Ewan McGregor, 1996, Danny Boyle, John Hodge, ewen bremner, jonny lee miller, Kevin McKidd


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