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FeaturesScottish Poetry News: June 2017
The Skinny's regular poetry column speaks with a fresh and exciting voice – Kayo Chingonyi – about his new collection Kumukanda. We also visit Babbity Bowster on 25 June to experience quality poetry while raising money for refugees Read more »| 31 May 2017 -
FeaturesA cultural call to arms: Rebel Inc. 25 years on
Author Jenni Fagan recalls revolutionary 90s publisher Rebel Inc. exactly 25 years on, speaking with the key architects & authors it bore – Irvine Welsh, Alan Warner, Laura Hird. This is also a cultural call to arms. What better use to make of the past? Read more »| 31 May 2017 -
FeaturesCities in Literature: Reading the Queer City
As a new book is published on the topic, we take a look at the idea of the city in the queer canon: often presented as a place of freedom and emancipation, but at other times an enforcer of social constructs Read more »| 24 May 2017 -
FeaturesThe Handmaid's Tale, Dystopia & Life Imitating Art
As The Handmaid's Tale reaches our screens and the book tops bestseller lists, we look at why dystopias such as this and 1984 are connecting so strongly in t... Read more »| 23 May 2017 -
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Dark Fantasy: Ever Dundas on debut novel Goblin
Goblin, the debut novel from Ever Dundas, blurs the lines between fantasy and reality but also between genders, questioning the roles imposed upon us from bi... Read more »| 10 May 2017 -
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Emma Cline on The Girls
Emma Cline's debut novel The Girls, in which teenager Evie Boyd becomes drawn into a Manson-like cult, was published to much acclaim last year. As the paperback hits shelves, we asked Cline about the book's origins and her future plans Read more »| 05 May 2017
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Scottish Poetry News – May 2017
Our columnist updates you on all things poetry for May, including a chat with Ted Hughes Prize winner Hollie McNish and the best words being offered on page and stage around Scotland Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
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Librarians v Comics: Glasgow Libraries
Everybody knows you’d be hard pushed to find a librarian who couldn’t tell their Austen from their Elbow, but we wanted to find out how well thes... Read more »| 03 May 2017 -
FeaturesEver Dundas: The Problems with Gender and Language
In her debut novel Goblin, Ever Dundas takes on the preset gender narratives society imposes on us. Here she discusses the problems language throws up when w... Read more »| 28 Apr 2017 -
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César Aira's Literary Toys for Adults
Argentine author César Aira is like nothing you've read before. As a light is shone on a small corner of his work – translations of The Proof an... Read more »| 18 Apr 2017 -
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Poetry News – Scotland, April 2017
We run through the Ted Hughes Award nominees, while Neu! Reekie ask us all a big question Read more »| 17 Apr 2017 -
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Victims to Nostalgia: Helen McClory interview
Helen McClory won the 2015 Saltire Society First Book prize for her flash fiction collection On the Edges of Vision. She now makes a narrative jump with novel Flesh of the Peach, and explains this impressive debut's rage and grief, tethered by nostalgia Read more »| 11 Apr 2017 -
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Mariana Enriquez: Black Magical Realism
Things We Lost in the Fire could be the most dark and thrilling short story collection you ever encounter, blending the sociopolitical horrors of dictatorshi... Read more »| 05 Apr 2017 -
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Emily Dickinson: More than a feminist hero
As Terence Davies' new film exploring the life of American poet Emily Dickinson reaches cinemas, we consider the innovations in her work – and the limitations of viewing her only as a feminist hero Read more »| 23 Mar 2017 -
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Elan Mastai: "Time travel is a very human thing"
Esteemed screenwriter and author Elan Mastai journeys through time in his new novel All Our Wrong Todays. He tells The Skinny what he himself would travel back to fix and why our present is so easily reimagined as a dystopian future Read more »| 21 Mar 2017