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James Yorkston – It's Lovely To Be Here
Fans of singer-songwriter James Yorkston won’t have been too surprised to hear that the Fife dweller and sometime Fence Collective dabbler had become a... Read more »| 30 Jun 2011 -
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The Paris Review, Interviewed
The Paris Review is perhaps the best of all literary journals, and almost certainly the most reader-friendly (yes Granta, even including you) due to its emph... Read more »| 30 Jun 2011 -
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Unbound 2011: What's On
Unbound events happen every night between 14 to 29 August in the Spiegeltent in Charlotte Square Gardens as part of the Edinburgh International Book Festival. All events listed below are FREE and unticketed. To get in, simply turn up and walk in. All events start at 9pm so arrive early to get a seat and the bar will be open until 1am. The Unbound section of the Book Festivals is kindly supported by the Scottish Government's Edinburgh Festivals Expo Fund Read more »| 30 Jun 2011 -
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Welcome to Unbound 2011
Unbound is back at the Edinburgh International Book Festival for 2011, offering up another free programme of late night performance, music and literature in the Charlotte Square Spiegeltent. Programme Manager Roland Gulliver introduces the guide to this year's line-up Read more »| 30 Jun 2011 -
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Love's Rebellious Joy – A Tribute to Paul Reekie
Irvine Welsh and the Subway Sect's Vic Godard pay tribute to the memory of Paul Reekie, while Gordon Legge shares a new piece of writing in honour of Scotland's most maverick man of letters Read more »| 30 Jun 2011 -
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Comic Book Guy: Don't Buy Into the 'Death of Spider-Man'
Last week, Marvel raised their profile by having their 'big' story of the moment grace the pages of USA Today and the Guardian. The story was one of heroism ... Read more »| 29 Jun 2011
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Comic Book Guy: Green Lantern-Emerald Knights
Neatly locked, loaded and released as ammunition in the live-action Green Lantern promotional build-up, Blu-ray animated feature Green Lantern: Emerald Knigh... Read more »| 17 Jun 2011 -
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Comic Book Guy: Grant Morrison goes into Action [Comics]
This past weekend at the LA Times' Hero Complex Film Festival, DC Comics Chief Creative Officer Geoff Johns and Co-Publisher Jim Lee addressed a live audienc... Read more »| 15 Jun 2011 -
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Comic Book Guy: DC No. 1s
On 31 May, DC made a historical announcement that would change the shape of not only the DC Universe, but of DC Publications as a whole. Via their blog they ... Read more »| 08 Jun 2011 -
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Starter for 11: Frank Quitely
All-Star Superman artist Frank Quitely tests his own comic book geek credentials in the never-ending quest for our prized haggis supper Read more »| 02 Jun 2011 -
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Sheridan Simove: The Value of Nothing
“Nothing will come of nothing” said King Lear, although Shakespeare shows that plenty did. Plenty came of nothing for author Sheridan Simove too when he wrote a book with nothing in it… Read more »| 01 Jun 2011 -
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Comic Book Guy: Glasgow goes Gotham
Glasgow, twinned with no fewer than eight cities including the splendour of Turin in Italy and the creolized vibe of Havana, Cuba, can now add one more to th... Read more »| 25 May 2011 -
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Comic Book Guy: Super-TV
*Spoiler* This past Friday in the US of A, Smallville came to the climax of its ten season run with less of a crescendo and more of a whimper, as fans whoop... Read more »| 18 May 2011 -
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Comic Book Guy: Grant Morrison double
Glaswegian comic book writer Grant Morrison is a born storyteller and it’s thanks to his creative vision that the mould of stagnant formula within comi... Read more »| 11 May 2011 -
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Releasing the Valve
Valve is a new literary journal, and an intriguing experiment. The experiment part is that it’s been created by students of a Strathclyde University class aimed at forming a journal for new writing. Got that? Read more »| 04 May 2011