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Kenneth Goldsmith's latest novel is a word for word transcription of the longest game in the history of baseball, adverts and all.

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Indignation

Indignation by Philip Roth

Books :: Review 07 Oct 2008

Keir Hind: Philip Roth’s latest book seems to return to themes in his first, Goodbye Columbus. Columbus dealt with the problems society’s restrictions caused a young man in late 50s America, and Indignation deals, broadly, with the same theme in early...

Homicide

Homicide: A Year on The Killing Streets

Books :: Review 07 Oct 2008

David Agnew: Wire fans, this is where it all began. David Simon, who (if you don’t know) is the creator of The Wire, was once a journalist for the Baltimore Sun. He was a crime reporter for years before taking a leave of absence to follow the Baltimore police...

Hardeep Singh Kholi - reckon you've lived enough to impress this man? Aye, probably.

Ever Had a Day Like These?

Books :: Feature 02 Oct 2008

Keir Hind: Here’s one from the department of phenomenally good ideas: The Scottish Book Trust and BBC Scotland have teamed up for a project called ‘Days Like This’, inviting members of the public - yes, that means you and me - to submit a story...

The Gargoyle

The Gargoyle by Andrew Davidson

Books :: Review 30 Sep 2008

Renee Rowland: The Gargoyle is a contemporary gothic love story, made like a mosaic from pieces of fairytales and love stories from the ages. An epic debut by Andrew Davidson, the story is related by a nameless narrator who, prior to being burnt beyond recognition in...

Landscapes

Ansel Adams: Landscapes of the American West

Books :: Review 29 Sep 2008

Robert Walker: Ansel Adams was a legendary photographer. He mainly shot landscapes, specifically large-scale American landscapes, and his photographs are often breathtaking. This book collects a number of the photographs he took of America’s national parks &nda...

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore

Mattilda Bernstein Sycamore: So Many Ways to Sleep Badly

Deviance :: Books :: Feature 26 Sep 2008

Alma Cork: Imagine the scene: you're taking part in a huge Pride march, an occasion where LGBT people can take to the streets, wave their rainbow flags, and celebrate being out and proud - a glorious gathering of gayness. Only, all of a sudden, the march is confr...

The Mighty Boosh

The Mighty Boosh Book Signing @ Zavvi, Glasgow, 13 Sep

Books :: Heads Up :: Comedy :: Preview 12 Sep 2008

Lizzie Cass-Maran: Feeling dreary? Feeling just a little bit too close to reality? You need never have that feeling again, as now for the first time ever you too can have a tiny, surreal, fragment of the Mighty Boosh on your book shelf. The Mighty Book of Boosh arrive...

I like this film!

Student Life: When comics become movies

Film :: Student Life :: Books :: Feature 10 Sep 2008

Neil D. Walker: Now it’s even easier to apply the cape to your life as Hollywood film studios are currently in feverish cahoots with the major comic houses Marvel and DC to sign up what’s left of their back catalogues of superheroes and legends – rea...

Christopher Brookmyre

A Snowball in Hell...

Books :: Feature 02 Sep 2008

Keir Hind: Christopher Brookmyre’s new book A Snowball in Hell features blackmail, gun battles, magic and the torture of various reality TV stars. All kinds of great stuff. It also sees the return of some familiar characters, namely thief and magician Zal I...

Linn Ullmann

Linn Ullmann: An Island of Her Own

Books :: Feature 25 Aug 2008

Keir Hind: Linn Ullmann has written three previous books, all with a spare prose style that is quietly complex and which masks great depths. Her latest book, A Blessed Child, is a tragic tale of a family on a small Baltic island, Hammarso. There is a father, Isak...

Work by Dave McKean

Dave McKean @ EIBF, 19 Aug

Books :: Review 22 Aug 2008

Erin McElhinney: If the Book Festival ever became fatiguing due to its surplus of talented egos crammed into one concentrated space, Dave McKean would be the perfect antidote. Quietly self-effacing, painfully modest, and obviously more happy as an observer than a perfo...

A Good and Happy Child by Justin Evans

A Good and Happy Child by Justin Evans

Books :: Review 13 Aug 2008

Hannah Brooks-Motl: The devil and all his works have always been fodder for fiction, and now Justin Evans has added George Davies to the playgrounds of the possessed. We meet Davies as a new father seeking help for a peculiar problem: he’s afraid to touch his son. C...

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

Books :: Review 11 Aug 2008

Rob Wringham: Haruki Murakami's style is deliberate, economical and has a unique 'sufficiency' which lends itself startlingly well to magical realism. His style somehow succeeds in making everyday non-adventures – say, cooking spaghetti - into engaging portrai...

The Redemption of Alexander Seaton by Shona MacLean

The Redemption of Alexander Seaton by Shona MacLean

Books :: Review 07 Aug 2008

Katie Gordon: On a dark and stormy night the disreputable Dawson sisters stumble across the dying body of Patrick Davidson, the apothecary’s apprentice. Unwilling to be implicated in his demise, the sisters drag the body to the School House in the hope that th...

St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell

St. Lucy's Home For Girls Raised by Wolves by Karen Russell

Books :: Review 06 Aug 2008

Rebecca Isherwood: This impressive collection of wicked, fantastical fairy-tales has already garnered much praise; at the age of 24, when the book was first published in hardback, author Karen Russell was included in the New York magazine’s “25 under 25 to Wa...

Chuck Palahniuk

The Skinny Event - Chuck Palahniuk @ Charlotte Square Gardens, 16 Aug

Books :: Heads Up :: Preview 31 Jul 2008

Lindsay West: Friends, readers, cult fiction fanciers; you are hereby cordially invited to the union of two fractious, brazen youths of the literary world - prodigious U.S. novelist Chuck Palahniuk, and your humble Skinny magazine. If this were a real wedding, it wo...

Shane Koyczan

The Skinny Event - Shane Koyczan @ Charlotte Square Gardens, 22 Aug

Books :: Feature 31 Jul 2008

Keir Hind: Grab a ticket quick, because the fantastic Master Poetry Slammer Mr Koyczan was one of the hits of the festival on his last appearance in 2005, so they're in demand. What are his poems like, you say? His poems are varied. He can hold an audience spellb...

Irvine Welsh

The Book Festival of Book Festivals...

Books :: Feature 23 Jul 2008

Keir Hind: The Edinburgh International Book Festival is upon us, and it features the usual massive, yet well-judged, selection of famous names including film stars, poets, news reporters and cult novelists, but mostly just some very fine writers. The really big n...

West Port Book Festival Logo

Book Festival Fringe, with strippers

Books :: Preview 21 Jul 2008

Erin McElhinney: In August, anything with the word 'free' in it automatically draws the eye. So much so that companies and publicists have even been known to use the word in their performance titles, just so their events come up top in any uninitiated-to-the-fringe tou...

Elephantina

Elephantina by Andrew Drummond

Books :: Review 17 Jul 2008

Ryan Agee: Elephantina is a cross between a historical novel and a comic one. Drummond invents the journals of one Gilbert Orum, assistant to the very real Dr Patrick Blair, who was the first man in Britain to dissect an Elephant. The book is Orum’s account...

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