Books | Feature
Keir Hind: Glasgow’s annual Aye Write! Book festival will take place this year from Friday the 5th to Saturday the 13th of March, and as always it will be ...
John Shale: If you’ve been enjoying February’s Carry a Poem events so far, you’ll be glad to know that there’s plenty more to come for kid...
Keir Hind: Dan Rhodes’ new book, Little Hands Clapping is a fantastic tale involving extremely beautiful people, euphonium music, a suicide museum, a man w...
Keir Hind: The literary scene is an odd thing. 200 years ago, when Scotland had two internationally influential journals, in Blackwoods and The Edinburgh Review,...
Keir Hind: For… anyone with the slightest interest in Scottish Culture A biography doesn’t need a fascinating subject to be a great book – bu...
Theatre | Books | Feature
Nat Smith: Alasdair Gray is known as a novelist and artist, but he’s also written a fair number of plays too. There’s some good work amongst these th...
Helen Fitzgerald: Polygon Books have provided The Skinny with the first chapter of Helen Fitzgerald's new book Bloody Women. Planning a wedding but get distracted by s...
Keir Hind: Cargo Publishing is a recently-launched book publisher that aims to provide books at an affordable price, whilst supporting new writing which might ot...
Keir Hind: Gutter is a magazine for new Scottish writing, launched this past August. Issue 02 will be launched in February, but the submission deadline for this ...
Michael Rainer: The name Martin Stannard might not be familiar, but his subject, Muriel Spark, was, and the crowd was packed tight to hear about her. Stannard read a ...
Art | Books | Feature
Nat Smith: Best known as a political cartoonist, Gerald Scarfe is really a very accomplished artist in many genres. Happily wired up to a PowerPoint show, Scarfe...
Keir Hind: Christopher Brookmyre’s new book, Pandaemonium, is something of a departure for him. One part of his tale is about Glaswegian school kids on a t...
Keir Hind: The first of The Skinny’s events, and a good one at that. Chairman Al Senter started things off by saying his role would be mostly redundant, an...
Ryan Agee: Antony Beevor, for those who don’t know, is a historian who writes books about the Second World War – perhaps the best-known being Staling...
David Sedaris: On his profession It helps to surround yourself with people who do stuff - fucked up stuff. My oldest sister Lisa came to visit me in France this su...
