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Jock Tamson's Bairns 25 Aug 2013 | 03:45 pm
[L]abels are for tins not people – Cally Phillips, A Week With No Labels Let me take a couple of paragraphs to ease you into this week’s article. I watch a lot of science fiction. New stuff or old I’...
Lolito 18 Aug 2013 | 03:56 pm
I think that honesty is like a piñata with nothing inside. – Ben Brooks, Lolito Let’s cut to the chase. No one these days picks up a copy of Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 modernist novel Lolita ignorant of...
The Care Home 11 Aug 2013 | 03:30 pm
HONESTY, SEX, GUILT, DRUGS, LOVE, PAIN. – Lee Carrick, The Care Home First-time novelists face two problems. The first is what to write about. The second is how to write about it. I’m not sure which ...
A conversation with Brendan Gisby 4 Aug 2013 | 03:30 pm
Geography is people – William McIlvanney, ‘Growing Up in the West’ Recently I was invited to join a growing group of Scottish writers over at McVoices. The man behind the initiative is one Brendan Gi...
My Year of Meats 28 Jul 2013 | 04:02 pm
So what you’re basically saying is that the residues in meat from hormones, steroids, pesticides, bacterial and viral contaminants, will lead to cancers, infertility, brain fevers, and a host of other...
The Last Banquet 21 Jul 2013 | 03:27 pm
We seek the immortality of fame around the same time our bodies begin to seek the sweet peace of oblivion. Such is the contradiction of being human. – Jonathan Grimwood, The Last Banquet I haven’t re...
Silent Noon 14 Jul 2013 | 03:32 pm
You can’t go back to a place that no longer exists. – Trilby Kent, Silent Noon When I agreed to review this book I was labouring under the impression that it was a YA novel. The mistake was completel...
The Poetry of Harold Pinter 7 Jul 2013 | 04:50 pm
Pinter’s not a poet, but he doesn’t know it. – Daniel Finkelstein, The Times, 16 March 2005 In August 1950 two poems appeared in Poetry London 5—'New Year in the Midlands' and 'Chandeliers and Shadow...
The Flame Alphabet 30 Jun 2013 | 03:48 pm
The word is now a virus. The flu virus may have once been a healthy lung cell. It is now a parasitic organism that invades and damages the central nervous system. Modern man has lost the option of sil...
Brief Encounters with Che Guevara 23 Jun 2013 | 03:48 pm
“Cry me a river,” Dennis said through his teeth. “Beg your pardon?” “Cry me a river, it’s an expression. Basically it means all you guys can go fuck yourselves.” “Oh. Well. That’s awfully sentimental ...
